Publications by authors named "Alison Cosgrove"
Climate change on YouTube: A potential platform for youth learning.
Health Promot Perspect
July 2020
Article Synopsis
- Climate change poses a significant threat, and this study analyzes the most viewed YouTube videos on the topic to assess their content and impact.
- The research evaluated the top 100 climate change videos, revealing that most were from news sources, acknowledged climate change as real, and discussed its environmental effects, but only one-third offered prevention solutions.
- The findings suggest a gap in content aimed at youth, highlighting the potential for creating engaging videos for younger audiences to drive climate action, alongside a call for further research on YouTube as an educational platform.
College counseling centers are assumed to play a vital role in addressing students' mental health needs during the COVID-19 pandemic. The aim of this study was to characterize the extent to which NYC metropolitan area school websites communicated to students their updated mental health service offerings, psychoeducational information related to COVID-19, and community-based resources after the abrupt end to on-campus services during the Spring semester. A total of 138 websites were analyzed.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Given that individuals may make health decisions based on mass media coverage, and given that such decisions have broad consequences in the case of highly contagious infectious disease, it is imperative that public health practitioners are aware of mass media coverage on emerging health threats such as COVID-19. The purpose of this study was to examine the content of news segments covering COVID-19 posted on-line.
Methods: Using the Google Videos function on a cleared browser, all videos identified from January and February, 2020 were archived by URL for analysis.