Trials / Completed
CompletedNCT04367363
Social Media and COVID-19
Tracking WhatsApp Behaviors During a Crisis: A Longitudinal Observation of Messaging Activities During the COVID-19 Pandemic
- Status
- Completed
- Phase
- —
- Study type
- Observational
- Enrollment
- 151 (actual)
- Sponsor
- Jean Liu · Academic / Other
- Sex
- All
- Age
- 21 Years
- Healthy volunteers
- Accepted
Summary
In this protocol, we seek to examine the role of popular messaging platform WhatsApp in information spread during a crisis. As there have been few global crises in the last decade (coinciding with the rise of social media), the role of private messaging platforms such as WhatsApp during crisis contexts remains understudied. During the current COVID-19 global health crisis, we undertook this study to: (1) characterize the nature of WhatsApp use during crises, (2) characterize the profiles of WhatsApp users (3) understand how WhatsApp usage links to well-being (fear and thoughts about COVID-19).
Conditions
Interventions
| Type | Name | Description |
|---|---|---|
| BEHAVIORAL | Social media & news consumption | Daily reports of social media use and consumption, including reports on receiving and disseminating news articles related to the COVID-19 situation (e.g., how many messaging groups shared news on the outbreak, how many items related to the outbreak they forwarded to others, etc). |
Timeline
- Start date
- 2020-03-17
- Primary completion
- 2020-05-07
- Completion
- 2020-05-31
- First posted
- 2020-04-29
- Last updated
- 2020-12-29
Locations
1 site across 1 country: Singapore
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov record NCT04367363. Inclusion in this directory is not an endorsement.