Effects of COVID-19 Emergency Alert Text Messages on Practicing Preventive Behaviors: Cross-sectional Web-Based Survey in South Korea.

Published in: Journal of medical Internet research (2021)

Our findings suggest that emergency alert text messages sent to individuals' mobile phones are timely and effective strategies for encouraging preventive behavior in public. Sending emergency alert text messages to provide the public with accurate and reliable information could be positively considered by the health authorities, which might reduce the negative impact of infodemics.

Keyphrases

healthcare
public health
cross sectional
emergency department
smoking cessation
mental health
clinical decision support
coronavirus disease
sars cov
health information
emergency medical
high resolution
electronic health record
risk assessment
climate change
human health
mass spectrometry
social media