Vaccine-critical videos on YouTube and their impact on medical students' attitudes about seasonal influenza immunization: A pre and post study

Vaccine

Volumn 30, Issue 25, 2012, Pages 3763-3770

  Robichaud, Pierre ^a,c,d   Hawken, Steven ^b   Beard, Leslie ^c   Morra, Dante ^c   Tomlinson, George ^c   Wilson, Kumanan ^b   Keelan, Jennifer ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b OTTAWA HOSPITAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^c TORONTO GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Health care professionals; Health communication; Influenza vaccines; Social media; Vaccination; YouTube

Indexed keywords

INFLUENZA VACCINE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; FEMALE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; IMAGERY; INFLUENZA VACCINATION; INTERNET; MALE; MEDICAL INFORMATION; MEDICAL SCHOOL; MEDICAL STUDENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEASONAL INFLUENZA; SOCIAL MEDIA; STUDENT ATTITUDE;

ADULT; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HEALTH COMMUNICATION; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; INFLUENZA VACCINES; INFLUENZA, HUMAN; MALE; SOCIAL MEDIA; STUDENTS, MEDICAL; VACCINATION;

EID: 84861004306     PISSN: 0264410X     EISSN: 18732518     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.vaccine.2012.03.074     Document Type: Article

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