COVID-19 News Exposure and Vaccinations: A Moderated Mediation of Digital News Literacy Behavior and Vaccine Misperceptions

Wu, Yuanyuan; Kuru, Ozan; Kim, Dam Hee; Kim, Seongcheol

doi:10.3390/ijerph20010891

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“…In particular, it has been observed that conspiracy theories and misinformation can negatively impact willingness to get vaccinated [15,16]. Similar detrimental effects of misinformation on crisis management have been observed in other crisis situations; prior to the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, studies have shown that exposure to misinformation can adversely affect individuals' willingness to vaccinate [2,3,17].…”

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Misinformation as a Societal Problem in Times of Crisis: A Mixed-Methods Study with Future Teachers to Promote a Critical Attitude towards Information

2023

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Global society is facing major challenges, which are to be met by pursuing the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Digitalization processes bring many opportunities for achieving SDGs, but they also bring pitfalls. For example, on one hand, social media makes it easier for more parts of society to participate. On the other hand, the ability to rapidly circulate unfiltered information can lead to the spread of misinformation and subsequently interfere with the achievement of SDGs. This effect could be observed during the COVID-19 pandemic and continues to occur in the context of climate change. Young people are especially likely to be exposed to misinformation on social media. With this in mind, it is enormously important for schools to prepare young people to critically handle the overload of information available online. The aim of this study was to provide future middle and high school teachers with a fruitful approach to foster a critical attitude towards information in classrooms. To this end, we expanded an existing approach by implementing active, technique-based inoculation and technique-based debunking within the COVID-19 content framework in a teacher education course. This implementation was monitored by a mixed-methods study with n = 24 future middle and high school teachers who participated in two courses in subsequent semesters. By performing statistical analysis on pretests and posttests and qualitative content analysis on reflective journal entries, we found that future teachers’ self-efficacy expectations for detecting and debunking misinformation, as well as their debunking skills, increased throughout the courses. In addition, our results show that future teachers perceive active, technology-based inoculation as a helpful approach for their future teaching. They feel that this approach can be a way to implement education for sustainable development in schools with a focus on the promotion of critical thinking. In summary, we believe that the approach presented in this article may be beneficial for teaching the critical treatment of information in various thematic contexts.

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Misinformation as a Societal Problem in Times of Crisis: A Mixed-Methods Study with Future Teachers to Promote a Critical Attitude towards Information

2023

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“…The COVID-19 pandemic has led to significant changes in people's daily lives worldwide (1). Since the COVID-19 outbreak, many precautions have been implemented, including quarantines, lockdowns, wearing mandatory face masks in public, and social isolation (2,3).…”

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“…Since the COVID-19 outbreak, many precautions have been implemented, including quarantines, lockdowns, wearing mandatory face masks in public, and social isolation (2,3). Vaccination is one of the most crucial and costeffective health interventions (4) for achieving herd immunity and halting the COVID-19 pandemic (1). At least 80% of the population must be vaccinated for herd immunity (5).…”

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Barriers to COVID-19 vaccine uptake: classification and the role of Health Literacy and Media Literacy

Ranjbaran,

Chollou,

Pourrazavi

et al. 2023

Front. Public Health

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BackgroundVaccination is one of the most influential and cost-effective health interventions for preventing and reducing COVID-19 diseases. Unfortunately, the majority of the world's population is deprived of vaccination. Health Literacy (HL) and Media Literacy (ML) are essential to the COVID-19 vaccination. The present study investigates the barriers to COVID-19 vaccine uptake, focusing on classification and the roles of HL and ML.MethodsA cross-sectional study was conducted among people 18–65 years old in Sarab City, located in East Azerbaijan, Iran, between September to October 2020. Multistage cluster sampling was employed to recruit 298 people from Health Care Services Centers (HCCs).ResultsThe results of this research demonstrated that about 32.6% of participants reported that they have fully injected COVID-19 vaccines. Also, HL was positively associated with ML (r = 0.214, p < 0.05). Barriers of COVID-19 vaccine uptake were classified into personal, interpersonal, group and organizational, society and decision-making factors. Besides, barriers to the COVID-19 vaccine were significantly correlated with HL (r = −0.298, p < 0.05) and ML (r = 0.266, p < 0.05). Additionally, in the hierarchical regression model, demographic characteristics accounted for 8.2% of the variation in barriers to the COVID-19 vaccine (F = 4.34; p = 0.001), that monthly income (ß = −0.237; p < 0.05) and marriage statues (ß = 0.131; p < 0.05) were statistically associated with low barriers. HL as predictor variables explained an additional 14.4% of variation in barriers of COVID-19 vaccine (F = 53.84; p < 0.001) and ML explained an extra 9.2% of the variation (F = 38.83; p < 0.001). In total, demographic characteristics, HL dimensions and ML were able to explain 31.8% of the variation in barriers to COVID-19 vaccine.ConclusionsAccording to the findings, various strategies are needed to increase the COVID-19 vaccination uptake. This is due to the fact that barriers to COVID-19 vaccination uptake are multifactorial. These facts can help health policymakers and healthcare providers design media-based interventions to reduce barriers to COVID-19 vaccination uptake among adults. Enhancing vaccine HL and ML for adults and improving vaccine confidence are of high priority.

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On coming back, the scaring COVID‐19 concern. Addressing indoor microclimates with innovative and straightforward solutions to prevent SARS‐CoV2 spreading

Chirumbolo,

Tirelli

2024

Journal of Medical Virology

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To the Editor, Some recent news in mainstream media about new SARS-CoV2 variants of concern 1 may be felt as a nagging warning if, as reported in some Editorials in leading, highly impacted scientific journals, someone is still afraid that "COVID is on the rise again." 2 COVID-19 concern, with its scaring perspective, is either coming back or has never faded off; probably the meaning is the same, yet people are compelled again to rescue their own awareness and scares to address any new forecast epidemic wave and any consequent averted social restriction. 2In the meantime, politicians did not arrange any good approach to allow people to live in a safe context, aside from vaccination. SARS-CoV2 is spread via airborne pollutants, even particulate matter PM 2.5 and PM 10 , so, at least in indoor spaces, where people work or study, solutions to reduce the presence of these particles may be particularly crucial. Particulate matters, that is, PM 2.5 and PM 10 , are terms used to refer to particles in the air that have a specific size range. PM 2.5 (Particulate Matter 2.5) refers to fine particulate matter with a diameter of 2.5 μm or smaller coming from combustion processes (e.g., vehicle exhaust and industrial emissions), dust, and chemical reactions in the atmosphere. PM 10 (Particulate Matter 10) refers to inhalable coarse particles with a diameter of 10 μm or smaller. These particles are larger than PM 2.5 , but they can still be inhaled into the respiratory system and can include road dust, airborne pollutants from construction activities, agricultural operations, and some industrial processes. Particulate matter in polluted air can spread SARS-CoV2, as these particles are considered as SARS-CoV2 carriers, 3,4 and their removal from indoor spaces is particularly challenging to reduce SARS-CoV2 spreading in human communities.In this warning stage for preventing new pandemics, besides the wise recommendation to undergo anti-COVID-19 vaccination if elderly or immune-compromised, people try to neglect any alarming news and rely on the huge mass of disinformation concerning COVID-19, to be simply reassured by optimistic, easy-to-do perspectives. 5 Actually, SARS-CoV2 underwent an endemic phase

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COVID-19 News Exposure and Vaccinations: A Moderated Mediation of Digital News Literacy Behavior and Vaccine Misperceptions

Cited by 6 publications

References 102 publications

Misinformation as a Societal Problem in Times of Crisis: A Mixed-Methods Study with Future Teachers to Promote a Critical Attitude towards Information

Misinformation as a Societal Problem in Times of Crisis: A Mixed-Methods Study with Future Teachers to Promote a Critical Attitude towards Information

Barriers to COVID-19 vaccine uptake: classification and the role of Health Literacy and Media Literacy

On coming back, the scaring COVID‐19 concern. Addressing indoor microclimates with innovative and straightforward solutions to prevent SARS‐CoV2 spreading

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