In the COVID-19 pandemic, who did we trust? An eight-country cross-sectional study
Alexa P Schluter,
Mélissa Généreux,
Elsa Landaverde
et al.
Abstract:Background
Trust is a key determinant of health, but has been undermined by the COVID-19 pandemic and the associated infodemic. Using data from eight countries, we aimed to epidemiologically describe levels of trust in health, governments, news media organisations, and experts, and measure the impact of political orientation and COVID-19 information sources on participant’s levels of trust.
Methods
We simultaneously conducted a stratified randomised online cross-section… Show more
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