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Public health communications and alert fatigue

Overview of attention for article published in BMC Health Services Research, August 2013
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Title
Public health communications and alert fatigue
Published in
BMC Health Services Research, August 2013
DOI 10.1186/1472-6963-13-295
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Authors

Janet G Baseman, Debra Revere, Ian Painter, Mariko Toyoji, Hanne Thiede, Jeffrey Duchin

Abstract

Health care providers play a significant role in large scale health emergency planning, detection, response, recovery and communication with the public. The effectiveness of health care providers in emergency preparedness and response roles depends, in part, on public health agencies communicating information in a way that maximizes the likelihood that the message is delivered, received, deemed credible and, when appropriate, acted on. However, during an emergency, health care providers can become inundated with alerts and advisories through numerous national, state, local and professional communication channels. We conducted an alert fatigue study as a sub-study of a larger randomized controlled trial which aimed to identify the most effective methods of communicating public health messages between public health agencies and providers. We report an analysis of the effects of public health message volume/frequency on recall of specific message content and effect of rate of message communications on health care provider alert fatigue.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United Kingdom 3 2%
Malaysia 1 <1%
United States 1 <1%
Canada 1 <1%
Unknown 144 96%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 25 17%
Student > Ph. D. Student 21 14%
Researcher 18 12%
Student > Bachelor 12 8%
Other 8 5%
Other 28 19%
Unknown 38 25%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 24 16%
Nursing and Health Professions 19 13%
Social Sciences 18 12%
Psychology 10 7%
Engineering 7 5%
Other 25 17%
Unknown 47 31%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 32. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 24 April 2023.
All research outputs
#1,221,151
of 25,311,095 outputs
Outputs from BMC Health Services Research
#344
of 8,604 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#10,055
of 204,737 outputs
Outputs of similar age from BMC Health Services Research
#5
of 100 outputs
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