Sobowale Kunmi, Hilliard Heather, Ignaszewski Martha J, Chokroverty Linda
Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States.
Emergency Management, Kenner, LA, United States.
J Med Internet Res. 2020 Dec 1;22(12):e21886. doi: 10.2196/21886.
The COVID-19 pandemic and related public health efforts limiting in-person social interactions present unique challenges to adolescents. Social media, which is widely used by adolescents, presents an opportunity to counteract these challenges and promote adolescent health and public health activism. However, public health organizations and officials underuse social media to communicate with adolescents. Using well-established risk communication strategies and insights from adolescent development and human-computer interaction literature, we identify current efforts and gaps, and propose recommendations to advance the use of social media risk communication for adolescents during the COVID-19 pandemic and future disasters.
新冠疫情以及相关公共卫生措施限制了面对面社交互动，给青少年带来了独特挑战。青少年广泛使用的社交媒体为应对这些挑战、促进青少年健康和公共卫生行动主义提供了契机。然而，公共卫生组织和官员在利用社交媒体与青少年沟通方面做得不够。我们运用成熟的风险沟通策略以及来自青少年发展和人机交互文献的见解，确定了当前的努力和差距，并提出建议，以推动在新冠疫情及未来灾难期间利用社交媒体开展针对青少年的风险沟通。
