Dime La VerDAD: Verify, Debunk, and Disseminate

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Conditions studied: Influenza, COVID-19, Communication Research, Health Behavior, Respiratory Viral Infection

In brief

Dime la Verdad (Tell me the truth) will evaluate the use of storytelling by community health workers as a communication strategy to disseminate reliable health information on social media and encourage informed decision-making in favor of recommended immunizations in communities with high morbidity and mortality due to respiratory virus infections. Dime La Verdad is an innovative social media capacity-building program based on theoretical frameworks related to health communication that empowers community health workers to disseminate reliable information about respiratory virus protection strategies through the use of personal narratives on social media. The proposed work will use a rigorous stepped wedge design to 1) deliver a scalable program of science communicators using an adapted curriculum grounded in principles of health communication, 2) evaluate how diffusion of health messaging is perceived on social media, and 3) discern how use of personal narratives to enhance science communication can encourage informed decision-making to promote evidence-based immunization practices and improve health outcomes.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT06417762

Run by

University of Chicago

People needed

1400

Starts

2024-07-02

Expected to finish

2029-04-01

Last updated by the study team

2026-03-02

Who can join

Age: 18 and older, up to 99. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: accepted.

You may qualify if…

• 18 years or older
• Fluent in English or Spanish
• Provide services as a community health worker or similar designation in at least one of the seven communities with high morbidity and mortality due to respiratory virus infections
• Have a social media presence (personal or work related)

You may not qualify if…

• Plan to stop working as a community health worker or similar designation before spring of 2028 (end of data collection planned)
• Do not wish to participate in a social media campaign

Where it is running

• University of Chicago — Chicago, Illinois, United States (enrolling)
• Rush University — Chicago, Illinois, United States
• University of Iowa — Iowa City, Iowa, United States
• University of Michigan — Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States

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