Using Digital Storytelling and Social Media to Combat COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy: a Public Service Social Marketing Campaign.

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• Alternative Title:
  Journal of Prevention (2022), 2024, v. 45, no. 6: Using Digital Storytelling and Social Media to Combat COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy: a Public Service Social Marketing Campaign.
• Journal Article:
  Journal of Prevention (2022)
• Personal Author:
  Dunlap, Ann F. ; Ciari, Alessandro ; Islam, Nadia ; Thorpe, Lorna E. ; Khan, Maria R. ; Huang, Terry T. K.
• Description:
  Disparities in vaccine confidence and uptake among racial and ethnic minorities have resulted in a disproportionate burden of COVID-19 in these populations. Social media campaigns have shown promise in public health promotion and behavioral interventions. In January 2022, an academic-community partnership launched #Vax4Community, a 6-month social media campaign centered around the use of digital storytelling videos. The campaign purpose was to decrease vaccine hesitancy, combat vaccine misinformation and disinformation, and increase vaccine confidence within three distinct target communities: the justice-involved population, South Asian residents, and public housing youth in the metropolitan area of New York City (NYC). Our approach included the production and dissemination of digital storytelling videos featuring personal vaccine experiences from target populations. We evaluated key performance indicators (KPIs) of the campaign, including post impressions, reach and engagement across social media platforms, and shares from partner organizations. Overall, we received 1,910,662 post impressions, 699,722 unique users reached, and 2,880 post engagements across Instagram, Facebook, LinkedIn, and Twitter, and 147 shares from 48 partner organizations. Social media campaigns require strategic design in branding, messaging and outreach channels and could serve as an important tool to disseminate emotionally relatable content and trusted information to prime target populations to respond more optimally to public health interventions. The purpose of this paper is to describe the process of creating and disseminating these digital stories and the KPIs of the social media campaign.
• Content Notes:
  Author manuscript
• Subjects:
  • Humans
  • Social Media
  • COVID-19
  • COVID-19 Vaccines
  • Social Marketing
  • Health Promotion
  • Vaccination Hesitancy
  • SARS-CoV-2
  • Public Health
• Keywords:
  • COVID-19
  • Social marketing
  • Vaccine hesitancy
  • Digital storytelling
  • Social media campaign
  • Health equity
• Source:
  Journal of Prevention (2022), 2024, v. 45, no. 6
• DOI:
  https://doi.org/10.1007/s10935-024-00799-7
• ISSN:
  2731-5533 ; 2731-5541
• Pubmed ID:
  39212892
• Pubmed Central ID:
  PMC12965670
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  U48 DP006778/DP/NCCDPHP CDC HHSUnited States/ ; U48DP006396/CC/CDC HHSUnited States/
• Genre:
  Journal Article
• Place as Subject:
  New York City
• Pages in Document:
  947-955 (9 pdf pages)
• Volume:
  45
• Issue:
  6
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/262036/cdc_262036_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 460.94 KB]
• Collection(s):
  CDC Public Access
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:1edc366c753eac07a493888d9cd5b10121bef63d47535f19678b0f4f7e8b5659414282db9331b343aa67079e6daa9fbcd1172eabf8e2d0419df627d288793bd4