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Yulong Gu1, Zornitsa Kalibatseva2, Xu Song3
1School of Health Sciences, Stockton University, Galloway, New Jersey, United States.
Abstract:
In a university student survey on COVID-19 information assessment, 66% participants identified the falsehood of all misinformation statements and 66% provided web page URLs that are adequate in supporting statement accuracy assessment. The most cited web resources were government websites (43%) and media reports (30%). Those who identified misinformation falsehood were more likely to have higher GPA and liberal-leaning political views, and to implement evidence-based COVID prevention measures including mask-wearing and not self-medicating on (hydroxy-)chloroquine.
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