Can Patient Education Videos Close COVID-19 Knowledge Gaps?

January 05, 2021 - Targeted patient education and public health outreach videos can help close lingering COVID-19 knowledge gaps in communities of color, and in some cases even prompt patients to seek out more health-related information, according to a study published in Annals of Internal Medicine. More specifically, physician-led patient education videos can close knowledge gaps among Black and Latinx patients, and motivate Black patients to seek out more information when those patients are hearing from a provider of the same race. These findings come as the health community has observed stark racial health disparities throughout the COVID-19 pandemic. ...