Trust in COVID‐19 public health information

Nitin Verma, Kenneth R. Fleischmann, Le Zhou, Bo Xie, Min Kyung Lee, Kate Rich, Kristina Shiroma, Chenyan Jia and Tara Zimmerman

Journal of the Association for Information Science & Technology, 2022, vol. 73, issue 12, 1776-1792

Abstract: Understanding the factors that influence trust in public health information is critical for designing successful public health campaigns during pandemics such as COVID‐19. We present findings from a cross‐sectional survey of 454 US adults—243 older (65+) and 211 younger (18–64) adults—who responded to questionnaires on human values, trust in COVID‐19 information sources, attention to information quality, self‐efficacy, and factual knowledge about COVID‐19. Path analysis showed that trust in direct personal contacts (B = 0.071, p = .04) and attention to information quality (B = 0.251, p

Date: 2022
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