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Evaluation of a template for countering misinformation—Real-world Autism treatment myth debunking
Misinformation poses significant challenges to evidence-based practice. In the public health domain specifically, treatment misinformation can lead to opportunity costs or direct harm. Alas, attempts to debunk misinformation have proven sub-optimal, and have even been shown to “backfire”, including...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6353548/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30699155 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0210746 |
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author | Paynter, Jessica Luskin-Saxby, Sarah Keen, Deb Fordyce, Kathryn Frost, Grace Imms, Christine Miller, Scott Trembath, David Tucker, Madonna Ecker, Ullrich |
author_facet | Paynter, Jessica Luskin-Saxby, Sarah Keen, Deb Fordyce, Kathryn Frost, Grace Imms, Christine Miller, Scott Trembath, David Tucker, Madonna Ecker, Ullrich |
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description | Misinformation poses significant challenges to evidence-based practice. In the public health domain specifically, treatment misinformation can lead to opportunity costs or direct harm. Alas, attempts to debunk misinformation have proven sub-optimal, and have even been shown to “backfire”, including increasing misperceptions. Thus, optimized debunking strategies have been developed to more effectively combat misinformation. The aim of this study was to test these strategies in a real-world setting, targeting misinformation about autism interventions. In the context of professional development training, we randomly assigned participants to an “optimized-debunking” or a “treatment-as-usual” training condition and compared support for non-empirically-supported treatments before, after, and six weeks following completion of online training. Results demonstrated greater benefits of optimized debunking immediately after training; thus, the implemented strategies can serve as a general and flexible debunking template. However, the effect was not sustained at follow-up, highlighting the need for further research into strategies for sustained change. |
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spelling | pubmed-63535482019-02-15 Evaluation of a template for countering misinformation—Real-world Autism treatment myth debunking Paynter, Jessica Luskin-Saxby, Sarah Keen, Deb Fordyce, Kathryn Frost, Grace Imms, Christine Miller, Scott Trembath, David Tucker, Madonna Ecker, Ullrich PLoS One Research Article Misinformation poses significant challenges to evidence-based practice. In the public health domain specifically, treatment misinformation can lead to opportunity costs or direct harm. Alas, attempts to debunk misinformation have proven sub-optimal, and have even been shown to “backfire”, including increasing misperceptions. Thus, optimized debunking strategies have been developed to more effectively combat misinformation. The aim of this study was to test these strategies in a real-world setting, targeting misinformation about autism interventions. In the context of professional development training, we randomly assigned participants to an “optimized-debunking” or a “treatment-as-usual” training condition and compared support for non-empirically-supported treatments before, after, and six weeks following completion of online training. Results demonstrated greater benefits of optimized debunking immediately after training; thus, the implemented strategies can serve as a general and flexible debunking template. However, the effect was not sustained at follow-up, highlighting the need for further research into strategies for sustained change. Public Library of Science 2019-01-30 /pmc/articles/PMC6353548/ /pubmed/30699155 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0210746 Text en © 2019 Paynter et al http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) , which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. |
spellingShingle | Research Article Paynter, Jessica Luskin-Saxby, Sarah Keen, Deb Fordyce, Kathryn Frost, Grace Imms, Christine Miller, Scott Trembath, David Tucker, Madonna Ecker, Ullrich Evaluation of a template for countering misinformation—Real-world Autism treatment myth debunking |
title | Evaluation of a template for countering misinformation—Real-world Autism treatment myth debunking |
title_full | Evaluation of a template for countering misinformation—Real-world Autism treatment myth debunking |
title_fullStr | Evaluation of a template for countering misinformation—Real-world Autism treatment myth debunking |
title_full_unstemmed | Evaluation of a template for countering misinformation—Real-world Autism treatment myth debunking |
title_short | Evaluation of a template for countering misinformation—Real-world Autism treatment myth debunking |
title_sort | evaluation of a template for countering misinformation—real-world autism treatment myth debunking |
topic | Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6353548/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30699155 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0210746 |
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