COVID-19 and the importance of effective risk communication with children

During the current COVID-19 pandemic, effective risk communication is essential to mitigate the mental health impact on children and their families. Effective risk communication involves being honest but yet reassuring, framing issues in an actionable way, and modeling realistically reassuring commu...

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Autores principales: Abrams, Elissa M, Shaker, Marcus, Greenhawt, Matthew
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Oxford University Press 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9126270/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35620559
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/pch/pxab101
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description During the current COVID-19 pandemic, effective risk communication is essential to mitigate the mental health impact on children and their families. Effective risk communication involves being honest but yet reassuring, framing issues in an actionable way, and modeling realistically reassuring communication among adults. Health care providers may discuss with families principles of modeling good media consumption habits to mitigate misinformation on social media. In addition, health numeracy and health literacy need to be integrated into proper risk communication.
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spelling pubmed-91262702022-05-25 COVID-19 and the importance of effective risk communication with children Abrams, Elissa M Shaker, Marcus Greenhawt, Matthew Paediatr Child Health Commentary During the current COVID-19 pandemic, effective risk communication is essential to mitigate the mental health impact on children and their families. Effective risk communication involves being honest but yet reassuring, framing issues in an actionable way, and modeling realistically reassuring communication among adults. Health care providers may discuss with families principles of modeling good media consumption habits to mitigate misinformation on social media. In addition, health numeracy and health literacy need to be integrated into proper risk communication. Oxford University Press 2022-05-03 /pmc/articles/PMC9126270/ /pubmed/35620559 http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/pch/pxab101 Text en © The Author(s) 2022. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Canadian Paediatric Society. All rights reserved. For permissions, please e-mail: journals.permissions@oup.com https://academic.oup.com/journals/pages/open_access/funder_policies/chorus/standard_publication_modelThis article is published and distributed under the terms of the Oxford University Press, Standard Journals Publication Model (https://academic.oup.com/journals/pages/open_access/funder_policies/chorus/standard_publication_model)
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