The invisible burden of managing COVID-19 for Australian women: Cognitive labor and public health information.

ABSTRACT: Providing accurate and timely public health information is an ongoing challenge for public health officials. The COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated such challenges and presented unique difficulties in providing public health information, through the parallel rise of an "infodemic" of mis/dis-information. Understanding why individuals select, use and change their public health information seeking behaviors around COVID-19, and the relationship of these decisions relative to participant characteristics, is therefore an important step in understanding and responding to infodemics. This study used a qualitative survey (n = 255) and free-text qualitative questions to ask (1) Why participants use an information source, (2) How participants used an information source, and (3) How informatio

SUBMITTER: Lee A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9929454 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature