Clinical trials: Misinformation, open to volunteers
Vaccine Hesitancy, Vaccine Acceptance
Development and Evaluation of a Digital Educational Intervention to Improve Vaccine Confidence and Communication Among Registered Nurses: Protocol for a Randomized Controlled Trial (VaxNurse-RCT).
Nurses play an important role in providing vaccine information and supporting informed vaccination decisions. This study will evaluate a digital educational intervention designed for registered nurses in Quebec.
- Trial name
- VaxNurse-RCT (NCT07859579)
- Testing
- Digital educational intervention
- Where
- Canada
- Volunteers
- 100 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Universite du Quebec en Outaouais
HPV, HPV Vaccine
Digital Interventions to Increase HPV Vaccination Intentions Among Nigerian Caregivers
This study evaluates whether different types of digital health communication can increase parents' intention to vaccinate their daughters against human papillomavirus (HPV) in Nigeria.
- Trial name
- NCT07498075
- Testing
- Chatbot counseling, Misinformation-resistance pre-bunking inoculation, Short edutainment
- Where
- Nigeria
- Volunteers
- 3,340 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University of Pennsylvania
Misinformation
Vaccine Confidence and Infodemic in Southeast Asia's Nusantara Sociocultural Sphere
The goal of this clinical trial is to understand how well a culturally-specific "prebunking" video can improve vaccine information literacy and vaccine confidence among individuals in the Nusantara sociocultural sphere.
- Trial name
- NCT06947187
- Testing
- Pre-bunking video, Video on safe disposal of medication
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 472 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University of California, Berkeley
Health Misinformation, Misinformation
Cognitive and Emotional Inoculation Against Nutrition-Related Misinformation in Young Adults
This study aims to examine the effects of cognitive and emotional inoculation interventions on young adults' ability to identify and respond to nutrition-related misinformation on social media.
- Conditions
- Health Misinformation, Misinformation, Digital Health Literacy, Health Communication
- Trial name
- NCT07803380
- Testing
- Cognitive Game-Based Inoculation., Emotional Game-Based Inoculation., General Nutrition Health Education.
- Where
- China
- Volunteers
- 330 people
- Sponsor
- Beijing Normal University
Pregnancy
Social Media Withdrawal in Pregnancy: Effects on Maternal Mental Health and Misinformation
The goal of this clinical trial is to learn if restricting social media use with a hardware device can improve mental health and well-being during pregnancy.
- Trial name
- SWIPE LEFT (NCT07812506)
- Testing
- Brick device
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 70 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Massachusetts General Hospital
Healthy
Building Cognitive Resilience to Vaccine Misinformation Using AI in Europe
This multi-country trial evaluates an AI chatbot designed to counter cognitive biases and inoculate parents against vaccine misinformation, embedded within a large survey across five European countries (n=5,000).
- Trial name
- NCT07551986
- Testing
- AI-driven chatbot, Social media infographic
- Where
- United Kingdom
- Volunteers
- 5,000 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
Misinformation, Lenacapavir
Protecting Against Lenacapavir Misinformation With Young Women in Gauteng, South Africa ( PROTECT-L)
Adolescent girls and young women (AGYW) in South Africa remain disproportionately affected by HIV, with prevalence among 15-24-year-olds at 9.4% in 2024 despite expanded access to condoms, HIV testing, and oral PrEP.
- Trial name
- PROTECT-L (NCT07518914)
- Testing
- Diabetes information, Enhanced inoculation message
- Where
- South Africa
- Volunteers
- 1,500 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University of Pennsylvania