The Promotion of Hearing Health Through Wikipedia Campaigns: Article Quality and Reach Assessment

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• Personal Author:
  Flor DÁ ; Machado MAAM ; Menegon FA ; Montilha AAP ; Morata, Thais C. ; Zucki F
• Description:
  This case study examined the feasibility, reach, and potential impact of using Wikipedia as a tool for hearing health promotion. Activities involved editing existing Portuguese-language Wikipedia hearing health articles, as well as translating English-language hearing health articles to Portuguese during the Wiki4WorldHearingDay2019 and Wiki4YearOfSound2020 online campaigns. The Wikipedia efforts that took place in Brazil were carried out by 10 volunteer undergraduate students in Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology at the Federal University of Santa Catarina, in Brazil. Among new and existing Wikipedia articles, the group edited 37 articles, which attracted more than 220,000 views during the set tracking period. Students were responsible for 60% of the Portuguese-language edits during the Wiki4WorldHearingDay2019 campaign and more than 90% of the Portuguese-language edits during the first half of the Wiki4YearOfSound2020 campaign. Moreover, the quality indexes for pages either created or edited were improved in all situations by registering an increase rate ranging from 33% to 100%. Wikipedia-centered activities expanded the availability of quality scientific content, written in plain language, to the public. Students worked together in order to select topics, assess existing information, validate it, create new content, and share information-steps that contributed to the mission of health promotion and knowledge dissemination for the benefit of society. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Education Health Promotion Hearing Occupational Health Public Health Safety
• Keywords:
  Audiology Author Keywords: Health Promotion Crowdsourcing Educational Technology Encyclopedia Health Campaigns Health Communications Health Promotion Hearing Conservation Information Dissemination Public Health

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• ISSN:
  2227-9032
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Journal Article
• Place as Subject:
  Ohio ; OSHA Region 5
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Division:
  DFSE - Division of Field Studies and Engineering
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Volume:
  11
• Issue:
  11
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20067760
• Citation:
  Healthcare 2023 Jun; 11(11):1572
• Contact Point Address:
  Alexandre Alberto Pascotto Montilha, Educational Technology Section, Bauru School of Dentistry, University of Sao Paulo, Bauru 17012-901, SP, Brazil
• Email:
  alexandre@fob.usp.br
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2023
• Peer Reviewed:
  True
• Source Full Name:
  Healthcare
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:05d4f200208c2ac7952f92d57a6b2fe6c0fdeaf46c25659b02a4575303d81d668d1561af9dd7ca6d228529da69db6d2f3a126accf3280b558146701dd7650c93
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/230021/cdc_230021_DS1.pdf
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