Francesco Gesualdo

Dados Biográficos

ID7768032
NOMEFrancesco Gesualdo
PRENOMESFrancesco
SOBRENOMEGesualdo
ASSINATURAGESUALDO F
AFILIAÇÕESBambino Gesù Children's Hospital
ORCID0000-0002-9087-4398
VERIFICADOSim
TOTAL DE OBRAS9
TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES0
OBRAS COMO AUTOR9
OBRAS COMO EDITOR0
PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO2010
ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO2023
ÍNDICE H0

  • A social media intervention for communicating vaccine safety in low- and middle-income countries

    Open AccessLucie M Bucci, Smaragda Lamprianou et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Public Health2023

    Vaccine safety is a concern that continues to drive hesitancy and refusal in populations in low-and-middle income countries (LMICs). Communicating about vaccine safety is a strategy that can successfully change personal and community perceptions and behaviors toward vaccination. The COVID-19 infodemic emergency with the rapid rollout of new vaccines and new technology, demonstrated the need for good and effective vaccine safety communication. The…

  • Public Engagement in Digital Recommendations for Promoting Healthy Parental Behaviours from Preconception through the First 1000 Days

    Open AccessGiulia Cinelli, Ileana Croci et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal of…2023

    Web-based digital interventions may play a central role for health promoting strategies in the first "1000 days", from conception through the first 2 years of life. We developed a web platform providing evidence-based recommendations in the first 1000 days through short videos, and we studied engagement by users from preconception through parenthood in the second year of life. We described the access to videos by topic and used a multilevel model…

  • Exploring the vaccine conversation on TikTok in Italy

    Open AccessLorenza Parisi, Simone Mulargia et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2023

    TikTok, a social media platform for creating and sharing short videos, has seen a surge in popularity during the COVID-19 pandemic. To analyse the Italian vaccine conversation on TikTok, we downloaded a sample of videos with a high play count (Top Videos), identified through an unofficial Application Programming Interface (consistent with TikTok's Terms of Service), and collected public videos from vaccine sceptic users through snowball sampling …

  • Understanding the vaccine stance of Italian tweets and addressing language changes through the Covid-19 pandemic

    Open AccessS Cheatham, Per Egil Kummervold et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Public Health2022

    Social media is increasingly being used to express opinions and attitudes toward vaccines. The vaccine stance of social media posts can be classified in almost real-time using machine learning. We describe the use of a Transformer-based machine learning model for analyzing vaccine stance of Italian tweets, and demonstrate the need to address changes over time in vaccine-related language, through periodic model retraining. Vaccine-related tweets w…

  • How the Italian Twitter Conversation on Vaccines Changed During the First Phase of the Pandemic

    Open AccessFrancesco Gesualdo, Lorenza Parisi et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Public Health2022

    In the context of the European Joint Action on Vaccination, we analyzed, through quantitative and qualitative methods, a random sample of vaccine-related tweets published in Italy between November 2019 and June 2020, with the aim of understanding how the Twitter conversation on vaccines changed during the first phase of the pandemic, compared to the pre-pandemic months. Tweets were analyzed by a multidisciplinary team in terms of kind of vaccine,…

  • Feasibility of a VR Intervention to Decrease Anxiety in Children with Tumors Undergoing CVC Dressing

    Open AccessLuisa Russo, Alberto Eugenio Tozzi et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal of…2022

    Virtual reality (VR) represents a promising digital intervention for managing distress and anxiety in children with tumors undergoing painful medical procedures. In an experimental cross-over study, we administered a VR intervention consisting of relaxing games during central venous catheter (CVC) dressing. The VR sessions were compared with no-VR during CVC medication. We used the distress thermometer and RCMAS-2 scale to assess distress and anx…

  • Knowledge and Perception of Covid-19 Pandemic during the First Wave (Feb–May 2020)

    Open AccessCaterina Rizzo, Ilaria Campagna et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal of…2021

    Italy was the first country in Europe to face the coronavirus pandemic. The aim of the study was to analyze healthcare workers' (HCWs) level of information, practice, and risk perception towards COVID-19. We set up a cross-sectional study through SurveyMonkey ® and distributed the link through Facebook and Whatsapp closed groups. The research instrument was a 31 items questionnaire distributed using Facebook and Whatsapp. It was conducted in Ital…

  • The effect of physician’s recommendation on seasonal influenza immunization in children with chronic diseases

    Open AccessElisabetta Pandolfi, Maria Giulia Marino et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2012

    Receiving a specific recommendation by a physician is a strong determinant of being immunized against seasonal influenza in children with chronic diseases independently of other factors. Heterogeneity exists among children with different chronic diseases regarding influenza recommendation despite international guidelines. Increasing the frequency of appropriate recommendations toward influenza immunization by physicians is a single powerful inter…

  • Surfing the web during pandemic flu

    Open AccessFrancesco Gesualdo, Mariateresa Romano et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2010

    Despite media coverage on H1N1 influenza, relevant information for prevention is not easily found on the web. Strategies to improve information delivery to the general public through this channel should be improved