Study Centre for Social Science Research, Department Risk Communication, German Federal Institute for Risk Assessment, Berlin, Germany.
Front Public Health. 2023 May 4;11:999958. doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2023.999958. eCollection 2023.
Public health is not only threatened by diseases, pandemics, or epidemics. It is also challenged by deficits in the communication of health information. The current COVID-19 pandemic demonstrates that impressively. One way to deliver scientific data such as epidemiological findings and forecasts on disease spread are dashboards. Considering the current relevance of dashboards for public risk and crisis communication, this systematic review examines the state of research on dashboards in the context of public health risks and diseases.
Nine electronic databases where searched for peer-reviewed journal articles and conference proceedings. Included articles ( = 65) were screened and assessed by three independent reviewers. Through a methodological informed differentiation between descriptive studies and user studies, the review also assessed the quality of included user studies ( = 18) by use of the Mixed Methods Appraisal Tool (MMAT).
65 articles were assessed in regards to the public health issues addressed by the respective dashboards, as well as the data sources, functions and information visualizations employed by the different dashboards. Furthermore, the literature review sheds light on public health challenges and objectives and analyzes the extent to which user needs play a role in the development and evaluation of a dashboard. Overall, the literature review shows that studies that do not only describe the construction of a specific dashboard, but also evaluate its content in terms of different risk communication models or constructs (e.g., risk perception or health literacy) are comparatively rare. Furthermore, while some of the studies evaluate usability and corresponding metrics from the perspective of potential users, many of the studies are limited to a purely functionalistic evaluation of the dashboard by the respective development teams.
The results suggest that applied research on public health intervention tools like dashboards would gain in complexity through a theory-based integration of user-specific risk information needs.
https://www.crd.york.ac.uk/prospero/display_record.php?RecordID=200178, identifier: CRD42020200178.
公共卫生不仅受到疾病、大流行或流行病的威胁。它还受到健康信息传播不足的挑战。当前的 COVID-19 大流行就非常明显地证明了这一点。一种传递科学数据的方法是使用仪表盘。考虑到仪表盘在公共风险和危机沟通方面的当前相关性，本系统评价研究了公共卫生风险和疾病背景下仪表盘的研究现状。
在九个电子数据库中搜索同行评审的期刊文章和会议论文集。纳入的文章（=65）由三名独立的评审员进行筛选和评估。通过一种方法学上的区分，将描述性研究和用户研究区分开来，该评价还使用混合方法评估工具（MMAT）评估了纳入的用户研究（=18）的质量。
65 篇文章评估了各自仪表盘所涉及的公共卫生问题，以及不同仪表盘使用的数据来源、功能和信息可视化。此外，文献回顾还揭示了公共卫生挑战和目标，并分析了用户需求在仪表盘的开发和评估中所起的作用程度。总的来说，文献回顾表明，不仅描述特定仪表盘构建的研究，而且根据不同的风险沟通模型或结构（例如，风险感知或健康素养）评估其内容的研究相对较少。此外，虽然一些研究从潜在用户的角度评估了可用性和相应的指标，但许多研究仅限于各自开发团队对仪表盘的纯功能主义评估。
结果表明，通过基于理论的用户特定风险信息需求整合，应用于公共卫生干预工具（如仪表盘）的研究将在复杂性方面得到提高。
https://www.crd.york.ac.uk/prospero/display_record.php?RecordID=200178，标识符：CRD42020200178。
