Department of Economics, Seattle University, 901 12th Avenue, Seattle, WA, 98122, USA.
Dartmouth College, USA.
Soc Sci Med. 2021 Jan;268:113553. doi: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2020.113553. Epub 2020 Nov 25.
The aim of this systematic review was to analyze the value of awareness days, weeks, and months as found in peer-reviewed research and highlight any related trends.
A systematic review was conducted across four electronic databases for articles published between 1970 and July 2020. The researchers reviewed articles which included awareness days, weeks, or months in the title or abstract and extracted articles which used quantitative analysis to assess the impact of such campaigns.
The 73 included articles were separated into categories based on outcome measure(s) with 12 articles included in more than one category. Of the 31 articles which examined online activity outcomes, the vast majority reported the awareness day, week, or month in question positively correlated with increased activity. Of the 14 articles focused on knowledge outcomes, those which focused on specific day, week, or month sub-interventions with targeted populations had relatively greater success. The 29 studies that examined the impact of awareness days, weeks, and months on health outcomes reported mixed results. Another twelve studies provided treatment insights based on convenience sample research conducted during awareness days, weeks, and months. The majority of articles across all outcome categories did not examine costs.
Although online activity seemed to generally increase during the awareness days, weeks, and months studied, the relationship between this increase and improved health behaviors and outcomes remains unclear. In addition, there is a paucity of research pertaining to the cost and cost effectiveness of such campaigns. Future research in this area needs to focus more on health outcome impacts and include an examination of cost effectiveness when possible.
本系统评价旨在分析同行评议研究中发现的意识日、意识周和意识月的价值，并强调任何相关趋势。
在四个电子数据库中进行了系统评价，以检索 1970 年至 2020 年 7 月期间发表的文章。研究人员审查了标题或摘要中包含意识日、意识周或意识月的文章，并提取了使用定量分析评估此类活动影响的文章。
73 篇纳入的文章根据研究结果进行了分类，其中 12 篇文章被归入多个类别。在 31 篇评估在线活动结果的文章中，绝大多数报告了所研究的意识日、意识周或意识月与活动增加呈正相关。在 14 篇关注知识结果的文章中，那些针对特定日、周或月的亚干预措施以及针对特定人群的干预措施相对更成功。29 项研究调查了意识日、意识周和意识月对健康结果的影响，报告了混合的结果。另外 12 项研究根据在意识日、意识周和意识月期间进行的方便样本研究提供了治疗见解。大多数文章在所有研究结果类别中都没有研究成本。
尽管在研究期间，在线活动似乎普遍增加，但这种增加与改善健康行为和结果之间的关系尚不清楚。此外，关于此类活动的成本和成本效益的研究很少。该领域的未来研究需要更加关注健康结果的影响，并在可能的情况下纳入对成本效益的考察。
