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Using established cognitive-science learning approaches, participants completed remote pretests, received feedback with correct answers and explanations, and then underwent surprise retests after 30 minutes and one week. 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DeCaro1,2  | Anna Marin3  | Emily Waskow2,4 | Ana Vives‐Rodriguez5 | Adolfo Di Crosta6 | Pasquale La Malva6  | Katherine W. Turk2,4 | Rocco Palumbo6 | Andrew E. Budson2,4  \n1Psychology Department, Butler University, Indianapolis, Indiana, USA | 2Department of Neurology, Boston University Alzheimer's Disease Research Center, Boston, Massachusetts, USA | 3Department of Neurology, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York, USA | 4Veteran's Affairs (VA) Boston Healthcare System, Boston, Massachusetts, USA | 5Department of Neurology, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, USA | 6Department  \nof Psychological Sciences, Health, and Territory, Università degli Studi G. d′Annunzio Chieti e Pescara, Chieti, Italy Correspondence: Renée E. DeCaro ([rdecaro@butler.edu](rdecaro@butler.edu))  \nReceived: 1 July 2024 | Revised: 14 July 2025 | Accepted: 9 September 2025  \nFunding: This study was supported by the Boston University Alzheimer′s Disease Research Center (P30‐AG072978; PI McKee), the US Department of Veterans Affairs Merit Award (CX002400; PI Budson), and the US Department of Veterans Affairs Career Development Award (CX002065; PI Turk) .  \nKeywords: cognitive impairment | COVID‐19 | learning | misconceptions  \nABSTRACT  \nBackground: Misconceptions are a major cause of poor health through adverse health‐related decisions and behavior, yet common techniques to refute these beliefs may be ineffective for older adults and/or difficult to implement. Based on well‐ established methods from cognitive science, we tested the short‐ and long‐term effectiveness of a simple learning method to dispel misconceptions related to COVID‐19 in older adults with and without cognitive impairment.  \nMethods: Participants rated COVID‐19 misconceptions as either true/false or yes/no, remotely during the COVID‐19 pandemic. Immediately following the pretest of misconceptions, participants received feedback about their responses consisting of the knowledge statement, their answer, the correct answer, and an explanation of the correct answer. A surprise retest of the same statements occurred after 30 min and then again after 1 week. Additional measures including cognitive testing, self‐ reported mood, and variables related to COVID‐19 (e.g., vaccine hesitancy) were also given. Older adults were categorized into two groups (i.e., healthy, impaired) based on recommended cutoffs from a cognitive screener, the MoCA‐Blind.  \nResults: Older adults with cognitive impairment (N= 32) were less knowledgeable about common COVID‐19 misconceptions. Despite initial knowledge deficits, older adults with impairment demonstrated equivalent gains on the retests, compared to healthy older adults (N = 31), which was supported by moderate evidence. Groups made significant knowledge gains on the 30 min retest (d = 0.71), and these gains persisted over 1 week. Knowledge updating was not impacted by personal experience with COVID‐19 or general vaccine hesitancy.  \nConclusions: We demonstrated that a simple learning method can lead to persistent knowledge gains in even older adults with demonstrated cognitive deficits. Adding these novel results to the existing literature suggests that “myth‐busting” may be an effective learning technique for people with a range of ages, cognitive abilities, experiences, and beliefs.  \nThis is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution‐NonCommercial‐NoDerivs License, which permits use and distribution in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, the use is non‐commercial and no modifications or adaptations are made.  \n© 2025 The Author(s) . Health Science Reports published by Wiley Periodicals LLC.  \nHealth Science Reports, 2026; 9:e71519 1 of 10  \n[https://doi.org/10.1002/hsr2.71519](https://doi.org/10.1002/hsr2.71519)  \nSummary  \n","cbCaipg3s5S0jltR","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaipg3s5S0jltR","pdf",610704,"English","# Abstract\n## Background\n## Methods\n## Results\n## Conclusions\n# Summary\n# Introduction","[{\"question\":\"What problem does the study address about older adults and COVID-19 misconceptions?\",\"answer\":\"Misconceptions can cause poor health through adverse decisions and behaviors, and commonly used refutation techniques may be ineffective or difficult to implement for older adults and/or those with cognitive impairment.\"},{\"question\":\"How did participants learn and update their knowledge in the study?\",\"answer\":\"Participants rated misconceptions as true/false or yes/no, then received feedback including the knowledge statement, their answer, the correct answer, and an explanation. They then completed surprise retests after 30 minutes and again after one week.\"},{\"question\":\"Did cognitive impairment reduce learning gains from the “myth-busting” technique?\",\"answer\":\"No. Older adults with cognitive impairment showed equivalent learning gains on the retests compared with healthy older adults, and the gains persisted over one week.\"}]","Older Adults With Cognitive Impairment Can Correct COVID‐19 Health‐Related Misconceptions | PDF",1790565899,25]