Melody Taba
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Recent Articles
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Taba M, Ayre J, McCaffery K, Vassilenko D, Ma I, Haynes T, et al.
Health Expect
. 2025 Mar;
28(2):e70203.
PMID: 40052560
Background: Social media became a key communication channel for public health agencies during the COVID-19 pandemic, especially for reaching younger populations less engaged with traditional channels. However, official social media...
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Nickel B, Moynihan R, Gram E, Copp T, Taba M, Shih P, et al.
JAMA Netw Open
. 2025 Feb;
8(2):e2461940.
PMID: 40009378
Importance: Social media is an influential source of medical information, but little is known about how posts discuss medical tests that carry potential for overdiagnosis or overuse. Objective: To investigate...
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Lewis C, Taba M, Allen T, Caldwell P, Skinner S, Kang M, et al.
J Med Internet Res
. 2025 Feb;
27:e71897.
PMID: 39977857
No abstract available.
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Nickel B, Ayre J, Marinovich M, Smith D, Chiam K, Lee C, et al.
Patient Educ Couns
. 2025 Jan;
134():108677.
PMID: 39862490
Objective: This study aimed to assess whether information from AI chatbots on benefits and harms of breast and prostate cancer screening were concordant with evidence-based cancer screening recommendations. Methods: Seven...
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Bonner C, Taba M, Fajardo M, Batcup C, Newell B, Li A, et al.
Vaccine
. 2024 Sep;
42(24):126296.
PMID: 39232400
Background: Risk communication tools based on epidemiological models can help inform decision-making, but must be responsive to health literacy needs to be effective. To facilitate informed choice about risks and...
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Lewis C, Taba M, Allen T, Caldwell P, Skinner S, Kang M, et al.
J Med Internet Res
. 2024 Aug;
26:e49453.
PMID: 39110967
Background: Adolescence is a key developmental period that affects lifelong health and is impacted by adolescents regularly engaging with digital health information. Adolescents need digital health literacy (DHL) to effectively...
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Nickel B, Heiss R, Shih P, Gram E, Copp T, Taba M, et al.
JMIR Res Protoc
. 2024 Jun;
13:e56899.
PMID: 38833693
Background: In recent years, social media have emerged as important spaces for commercial marketing of health tests, which can be used for the screening and diagnosis of otherwise generally healthy...
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Li H, Kalra M, Zhu L, Ackermann D, Taba M, Bonner C, et al.
Med Decis Making
. 2024 Apr;
44(4):437-450.
PMID: 38651834
Objective: To investigate the potential impacts of optimizing coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) rapid antigen test (RAT) self-testing diagnostic accuracy information. Design: Online randomized experiment using hypothetical scenarios: in scenarios 1...
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Chau B, Taba M, Dodd R, McCaffery K, Bonner C
JMIR Res Protoc
. 2023 Oct;
12:e48641.
PMID: 37851494
Background: Social media platforms have emerged as a useful channel for health promotion communication, offering different channels to reach targeted populations. For example, social media has recently been used to...
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Taba M, Ayre J, Freeman B, McCaffery K, Bonner C
Health Promot Int
. 2023 Apr;
38(2).
PMID: 37099680
Health authorities utilized social media during the COVID-19 pandemic to disseminate critical and timely health messages, specifically targeting priority groups such as young people. To understand how social media was...