@techreport{discovery10171147,
       publisher = {EPPI Centre, UCL Social Research Institute, UCL Institute of Education},
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         address = {London, UK},
           month = {December},
           title = {Debunk, Inform, Avoid? Debunking vaccine-related misinformation: a rapid evidence review},
            year = {2022},
        abstract = {BACKGROUND: Misinformation about COVID-19 has proliferated in digital and physical environments throughout the pandemic, undermining public health efforts to tackle the virus. Developing effective ways to counter COVID-19 misinformation and its spread has therefore become a key challenge for policymakers, public health practitioners, and communications professionals. OBJECTIVE: To identify, characterise and synthesise accumulating research knowledge about COVID-19 misinformation in order to provide stakeholders with evidence they need to help tackle the spread and impacts of misinformation in COVID-19 and future public health emergencies. KEY COMPONENTS: This project had two components: Living evidence map: An evidence map comprising bibliographic records of published articles reporting empirical research studies on misinformation in COVID-19, organised by topic and other selected study characteristics. From May to December 2022, this map was continuously maintained as a 'living map'. In December 2022, we stopped maintaining this map and published a final archived version. Rapid evidence review: A rapid review of research evidence that aimed to address the following question: For whom and/or under what circumstances is debunking misinformation about vaccines likely to be more effective than either providing accurate information only, or not responding, for: ?    Reducing people's vaccine-related misinformation beliefs; ?    Changing people's attitudes to vaccines; ?    Reducing people's vaccine hesitancy or resistance, or increasing their intentions to be vaccinated; and/or ?    Increasing people's uptake of vaccines?},
          author = {Shemilt, I and Hollands, G and Stansfield, C and Thomas, J},
             url = {https://eppi.ioe.ac.uk/cms/Default.aspx?tabid=3863}
}