Factors Associated with Cancer Message Believability: a Mixed Methods Study on Simulated Facebook Posts.

ABSTRACT: The ability to share and obtain health information on social media (SM) places higher burden on individuals to evaluate the believability of such health messages given the growing nature of misinformation circulating on SM. Message features (i.e., format, veracity), message source, and an individual's health literacy all play significant roles in how a person evaluates health messages on SM. This study assesses how message features and SM users' health literacy predict assessment of message believability and time spent looking at simulated Facebook messages. SM users (N = 53) participated in a mixed methods experimental study, using eye-tracking technology, to measure relative time and message believability. Measures included individual health literacy, message format (narrative/non-narrat

SUBMITTER: Trivedi N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8213533 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature