Partisan Media, Trust, and Media Literacy: Regression Analysis of Predictors of COVID-19 Knowledge.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The COVID-19 pandemic was a devastating public health event that spurred an influx of misinformation. The increase in questionable health content was aided by the speed and scale of digital and social media and certain news agencies' and politicians' active dissemination of misinformation about the virus. The popularity of certain COVID-19 myths created confusion about effective health protocols and impacted trust in the health care and government sectors deployed to manage the pandemic.

Objective

This study explored how people's information habits, their level of institutional trust, the news media outlets they consume and the technologies in which they access it, and their media literacy skills influenced their COVID-19 knowledge.

Methods

We administered

SUBMITTER: Roschke K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11306951 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature