A Personalized Avatar-Based Web Application to Help People Understand How Social Distancing Can Reduce the Spread of COVID-19: Cross-sectional, Observational, Pre-Post Study

Doriane Etienne   ¹ , MSc, MBA ;   Patrick Archambault   ^{1, 2, 3} , MD, MSc ;   Donovan Aziaka   ³ , BSc ;   Selma Chipenda-Dansokho   ³ , PhD ;   Eve Dubé   ⁴ , PhD ;   Catherine S Fallon   ³ , MSc ;   Hina Hakim   ³ , PhD ;   Jason Kindrachuk   ⁵ , PhD ;   Dan Krecoum   ¹ , BSc ;   Shannon E MacDonald   ⁶ , PhD ;   Ruth Ndjaboue   ⁷ , MA, MPH, PhD ;   Magniol Noubi   ¹ , BSc ;   Jean-Sébastien Paquette   ³ , MD, MSc ;   Elizabeth Parent   ³ , MA ;   Holly O Witteman   ^{1, 3, 8} , PhD

¹ VITAM – Centre de recherche en santé durable, Université Laval, Québec, QC, Canada

² Department of Emergency Medicine, Centre intégré de santé et de services sociaux de Chaudière-Appalaches, Québec, QC, Canada

³ Department of Family Medicine and Emergency Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Université Laval, Québec, QC, Canada

⁴ Department of Anthropology, Université Laval, Québec, QC, Canada

⁵ Laboratory of Emerging Viruses, Department of Medical Microbiology & Infectious Diseases, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB, Canada

⁶ Faculty of Nursing & School of Public Health, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada

⁷ Research Center on Aging, Centre intégré universitaire de santé et de services sociaux de l'Estrie - CHU de Sherbrooke, Université de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, QC, Canada

⁸ Research Centre of the CHU de Québec, Laval University, Québec, QC, Canada