首选信息来源与COVID-19风险误解相关
Health literacy research and practice
|June 12, 2023
概括
喜欢社交媒体获取COVID-19信息的人比其他群体高估了他们的风险. 公共卫生运动应该针对这些人来提高风险感知准确性.
科学领域:
- 公共卫生 公共卫生
- 卫生沟通健康沟通
- 风险感知 风险感知
背景情况:
- 对2019年冠状病毒病 (COVID-19) 风险的不准确看法可能会减少对公共卫生措施的遵守.
- 首选信息来源与COVID-19风险感知的准确性之间的关系尚未得到充分理解.
研究的目的:
- 这项研究调查了健康信息的首选来源如何与美国成年人对COVID-19风险的不准确看法有关.
- 该研究旨在确定与感知和客观风险之间存在重大差异相关的特定信息来源.
主要方法:
- 在美国,对1785名医疗保健工作者 (HCW) 和4843名非HCW的代表样本进行了横截面在线调查.
- 主观风险是根据感染的感知可能性和危害计算的,而客观风险则考虑了已知的COVID-19风险因素.
- 使用统计分析,包括奇方形应急表和对比相关性,以比较不同首选信息来源的风险差异.
主要成果:
- 选择社交媒体作为主要信息来源的个人对个人COVID-19风险的估计过高 (HCW:62.1%;非HCW:64.5%).
- 互联网新闻来源与第二高的高估值相关 (HCW:59.6%;非HCW:59.1%),其次是政府网站,其他来源和电视新闻.
- 在HCW和非HCW的首选信息来源中观察到风险高估的显著差异 (p < .05).
结论:
- 首选的信息来源与个人COVID-19风险评估中的不准确性有显著的相关性.
- 公共卫生传播策略应该考虑根据他们喜欢的信息道为受众量身定制信息,以解决风险感知不准确的问题.
- 针对那些依赖社交媒体和互联网新闻获取信息的个人,可能对改善遵守公共卫生指南至关重要.
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