Health Information Crisis during <scp>COVID</scp>‐19 in the South Asian Region: Challenges, Experiences, Resilience, and Collaborative Efforts

Gala, Bhakti; Islam, Anwarul; Gamage, Ruwan Egoda; Agarwal, Naresh Kumar

doi:10.1002/pra2.629

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“…Under the COVID-19 contents, university libraries can add free multilingual COVID-19 contents of a YouTube channel prepared by the South Asia (SA) Chapter, the Association for Information Science and Technology. This SA channel is disseminating awareness on a variety of topics on COVID-19 in the SA region using accurate and reliable sources in all videos (Gala et al , 2022).…”

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Do students look for information differently? Information-seeking behavior during the COVID-19 pandemic

Tonmoy

Islam

2023

DLP

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Purpose The purpose of this study is to explore the COVID-19 information-seeking behavior of the students in a developing country. This study also explores how the use of information sources changes over time by the students of a public university in Bangladesh. Design/methodology/approach An e-mail was sent along with an online questionnaire to 350 students in a public university in Bangladesh. After sending a couple of follow-up e-mails in May and June 2022, we got limited responses. Later in July, we distributed the same questionnaire in the printed form to the students in the seminar library, computer laboratory and in the classroom. Finally, we got back 270 responses, and the response rate was 77.14%. Pearson’s correlation coefficient (effect size) and nonparametric test (Mann–Whitney U test) were used to see the differences in using information sources over times and overall understanding of choosing the COVID-19 information sources by the demographic variables. Findings This study found that the COVID-19 pandemic has made an increased demand for a variety of information, and the sources of information changes over time before and during the COVID-19 pandemic. The majority of the students faced challenges while seeking COVID-19 information which mostly falls under the availability of mis–disinformation. Students used more social media tools during the COVID-19 than the pre-COVID-19 time, and there are some significant relationships found between the students’ demographic variables and students’ understanding of choosing the COVID-19 information sources. Originality/value To the best of the authors’ knowledge, this study is one of the first to analyze changes in information behavior patterns of students in a developing country and understand the challenges faced by the students during the pandemic.

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Do students look for information differently? Information-seeking behavior during the COVID-19 pandemic

Tonmoy

Islam

2023

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“…If analyzing resilience to COVID-19, its spawn was thoroughly studied in China as a place of origin (He et al, 2022). Later, people from other countries got epidemic resistance, and researchers focused on regional peculiarities, e.g., in Southeast Asia (Gala et al, 2022) or Africa (Rich et al, 2022). In Europe, it is Italy where the COVID-19 effects were most severe, although population resilience put the situation under control (Ren, 2020).…”

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Resilience and vulnerability of Ukrainians: The role of family during the war

Kostenko,

Semenov,

Osetrova

et al. 2024

Problems and Perspectives in Management

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The full-scale russian invasion of Ukraine led to numerous physical and moral challenges. The paper aims to estimate the role of family as a social resilience driver in managing wartime challenges on a regional level. It used the online survey method based on Google Forms and online focus-group interviews in September-November 2022. Household members (1,089 respondents) of Kyiv, Lviv, Zakarpattia, Mykolaiv, Sumy, Chernihiv, and Dnipropetrovsk territorial communities were surveyed. Most respondents generally positively assess Ukraine’s prospects; 59% believe that the situation in the country will most likely improve. During war escalation, 67.2% of respondents waited for family support, and 48.8% helped their relatives, but relying on family support did not increase their safety expectations. In communities that did not increase their activity level in response to the war by one percentage point, the “feeling unsafe” responses increased by 1.8 percentage points, which means that an active civil position is also responsible for feeling safe (other things being equal) and increasing society’s resilience. At the same time, even in wartime, the indicators of social atomization are quite high, as 46.2% relied only on themselves and solved their problems independently, without anyone’s help. Therefore, developing family relations is one of the effective mechanisms for raising internal human resources to manage wartime challenges. AcknowledgmentThis study was supported by a project “Digital transformations to ensure civil protection and post-war economic recovery in the face of environmental and social challenges” (№0124U000549) and “Economic and energy security of Ukraine in the conditions of war and post-war reconstruction: disruptive technologies for sustainable development” (№0123U103593).

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Navigating the infodemic maze: Does information literacy reduce the infodemic?

Ul Islam,

Islam,

Widén

2024

IFLA Journal

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The objective of this study was to examine how information literacy can aid in infodemic management in the context of university students in a developing country. A printed survey questionnaire was employed to collect data on information literacy and infodemic management from a sample population consisting of university students. A total of 300 responses were collected and analysed, and both descriptive and inferential statistics were used. The results brought about a wide set of findings. The study found that students in the Department of Information Science and Library Management at the University of Dhaka exhibited a high level of awareness of information literacy and the COVID-19 infodemic. Despite the prevalence of misinformation and disinformation related to COVID-19, the students did not tend towards unreliable sources of information. The study examined the positive effect of information literacy on infodemic management through a multiple regression analysis. The empirical findings can aid in navigating the spread of misinformation and disinformation in the context of other developing countries.

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Health Information Crisis during COVID‐19 in the South Asian Region: Challenges, Experiences, Resilience, and Collaborative Efforts

Cited by 4 publications

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Do students look for information differently? Information-seeking behavior during the COVID-19 pandemic

Do students look for information differently? Information-seeking behavior during the COVID-19 pandemic

Resilience and vulnerability of Ukrainians: The role of family during the war

Navigating the infodemic maze: Does information literacy reduce the infodemic?

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