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Sponsor: University of Pennsylvania
Conditions: Vaccination Refusal, Covid19, Heart Diseases
Interventions: Online Social Network and Collective Intelligence Intervention, Independent Control
Countries: United States
Social technologies for health have already become essential means for providing underserved populations greater social connectedness and increased access to novel health information. However, these technologies have also had negative unintended consequences. The resulting digital divide in social technology takes many forms - from explicit racism that excludes African American and Latinx populations from the resources enjoyed by White and Asian members of online communities, to self-segregation for the purposes of identity preservation and community-building that unintentionally results in limited informational diversity in underserved communities. The result is an often unnoticed, but highly consequential compounding of inequities. This research seeks to use an online social network approach to address these challenges, in which the investigators demonstrate how reducing the online levels of network centralization and network homophily among African American community members directly increases their productive engagement with health-promoting information.
Sex: ALL
Age: 18 Years to —
Healthy volunteers: Yes
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Inclusion Criteria: * Having internet access * Aged 18 and above * Living in the United States Exclusion Criteria: * Having no internet access * Aged below 18 * Living outside of the United States
- Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States