Odette Wegwarth - Publications

Giese, H., Stok, F. M., Gaissmaier, W., & Wegwarth, O. (2025). A social network perspective on social cues for COVID risk perception. Scientific Reports, 15, Article 15118. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-025-99673-7

Schulz, P., Wegwarth, O., & Giese, H. (2025). Risk expression using likelihood ratios and natural frequencies in Bayesian inference tasks: A preregistered randomized-controlled crossover trial. BMC Medical Education, 25, Article 505. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12909-025-06990-6

Wegwarth, O., Pfoch, M., Spies, C., Möckel, M., Schaller, S. J., Wehler, M., & Giese, H. (2025). Tolerance for uncertainty and medical students' specialty choices: A myth revisited. Medical Education. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1111/medu.15610

Abels, W., Reinhardt, K., Neugebauer, E., Wulkotte, E., Toubekis, E., Piedmont, S., Born, S., Rieck, T., Wegwarth, O., Spies, C., Schlattmann, P., Schwarzkopf, D., & Fleischmann-Struzek, C. (2024). Improving prevention and early detection of sepsis among patient groups at risk: Introducing a model for a multimodal information campaign. The SepWiss study protocol. PLoS ONE, 19(7), Article e0305107. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0305107

Amelunxen, C., Bielecki, M., Wegwarth, O., & Funk, G.-C. (2024). The evidence effect: How fact boxes shift perceptions of lung cancer screening in Austrian medical practice. Cancer Medicine, 13(23), Article e70453. https://doi.org/10.1002/cam4.70453

Dau, P. H., Rumpel, M., & Wegwarth, O. (2024). Krebsfrüherkennungen: Die Kommunikation von Nutzen und Schaden. InFo Hämatologie + Onkologie, 27(9), 10–13. https://doi.org/10.1007/s15004-024-0696-9

Franzen, D., Müller-Birn, C., & Wegwarth, O. (2024). Communicating the privacy-utility trade-off: Supporting informed data donation with privacy decision interfaces for differential privacy. Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction, 8(CSCW1), Article 32. https://doi.org/10.1145/3637309

Giese, H., Neth, H., Wegwarth, O., Gaissmaier, W., & Stok, F. M. (2024). How to convince the vaccine-hesitant? An ease-of-access nudge, but not risk-related information increased Covid vaccination-related behaviors in the unvaccinated. Applied Psychology: Health and Well-Being, 16(1), 198–215. https://doi.org/10.1111/aphw.12479

Giese, H., Wegwarth, O., & Gaissmaier, W. (2024). Effects of experimental, network-based social circle norm feedback on studying behavior and alcohol consumption. Applied Psychology: Health and Well-Being, 16(4), 2116–2128. https://doi.org/10.1111/aphw.12582

Rumpel, M., Dau, P. H., & Wegwarth, O. (2024). Überlebensraten im Kontext von Früherkennung: Ein invalides Maß. InFo Hämatologie + Onkologie, 27(9), 14–17. https://doi.org/10.1007/s15004-024-0695-x

Rumpel, M., Dau, P. H., & Wegwarth, O. (2024). Positiver Screeningbefund: "Habe ich nun Krebs?". InFo Hämatologie + Onkologie, 27(9), 18–21. https://doi.org/10.1007/s15004-024-0703-1

Wegwarth, O. (2024). "Wir brauchen eine Revolution zur Förderung transparenter Informationen" [Editorial]. InFo Hämatologie + Onkologie, 27(9), 3. https://doi.org/10.1007/s15004-024-0697-8

Wegwarth, O., Hertwig, R., Giese, H., & Fineberg, H. V. (2024). The impact of nontransparent health communication during the COVID-19 pandemic on vaccine-hesitant people's perception of vaccines. Frontiers in Public Health, 11, Article 1256829. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2023.1256829

Wegwarth, O., Hoffmann, T. C., Goldacre, B., Spies, C., & Giese, H. A. (2024). General practitioners' risk literacy and real-world prescribing of potentially hazardous drugs: A cross-sectional study. BMJ Quality & Safety, 33(10), 634–641. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjqs-2023-016979

Wegwarth, O., & Michl, S. (2024). Transparente medizinische Risikokommunikation: Eine ethische Verantwortung? Zeitschrift für medizinische Ethik, 70(4), 470–491. https://doi.org/10.30965/29498570-20240096

Born, S., Fleischmann-Struzek, C., Abels, W., Piedmont, S., Neugebauer, E., Reinhart, K., Toubekis, E., Wegwarth, O., & Schwarzkopf, D. (2023). Most patients with an increased risk for sepsis-related morbidity or death do not recognize sepsis as a medical emergency: Results of a survey study using case vignettes. Critical Care, 27, Article 446. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13054-023-04733-x

Wegwarth, O. (2023). Die Kommunikation von Risiken in der Onkologie. Die Onkologie, 29, 976–983. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00761-023-01399-6

Wegwarth, O., Mansmann, U., Zepp, F., Lühmann, D., Hertwig, R., & Scherer, M. (2023). Vaccination intention following receipt of vaccine information through interactive simulation vs text among COVID-19 vaccine-hesitant adults during the Omicron wave in Germany. JAMA Network Open, 6(2), Article e2256208. https://doi.org/10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2022.56208

Wegwarth, O., & Scherer, M. (2023). COVID-19-Impfzögerlichkeit: Interaktive Simulationen vs. textbasierte Informationen bei der Risikovermittlung. Zeitschrift für Allgemeinmedizin, 99, 233–234. https://doi.org/10.1007/s44266-023-00086-4

Wilhelm, E., Ballalai, I., Belanger, M.-E., Benjamin, P., Bertrand-Ferrandis, C., Bezbaruah, S., Briand, S., Brooks, I., Bruns, R., Bucci, L. M., Calleja, N., Chiou, H., Devaria, A., Dini, L., D'Souza, H., Dunn, A. G., Eichstaedt, J., Evers, S., Gobat, N., Gissler, M., Gonzales, I. C., Gruzd, A., Hess, S., Ishizumi, A., John, O., Joshi, A., Kaluza, B., Khamis, N., Kosinska, M., Kulkarni, S., Lingri, D., Ludolph, R., Mackey, T., Mandić-Rajčević, S., Menczer, F., Mudaliar, V., Murthy, S., Nazakat, S., Nguyen, T., Nilsen, J., Pallari, E., Pasternak Taschner, N., Petelos, E., Prinstein, M. J., Roozenbeek, J., Schneider, A., Srinivasan, V., Stevanović, A., Strahwald, B., Abdul, S. S., Varaidzo, S. M., van der Linden, S., Voegeli, C., Wardle, C., Wegwarth, O., White, B. K., Willie, E., Yau, B., & Purnat, T. D. (2023). Measuring the burden of infodemics: Summary of the methods and results of the Fifth WHO Infodemic Management Conference. JMIR Infodemiology, 3, Article e44207. https://doi.org/10.2196/44207