COVID-19 health information sources and their associations with preventive behaviors: A typological study with older residents in Seoul, South Korea

Yuri Jang, Jieun Jung, Nan Sook Park, Miyong T Kim and Soondool Chung

PLOS ONE, 2023, vol. 18, issue 8, 1-11

Abstract: Considering that individuals’ health information can enable their adoption of health behaviors, we examined the use of health information sources related to COVID-19 and its association with preventive behaviors in a sample of older residents in Seoul, South Korea (N = 400, M age = 76.1 years). Latent profile analysis of 12 sources of health information representing conventional media, online sources, interpersonal networks, and health professionals or authorities yielded a 4-group typology: limited, moderate/traditional, moderate/digital, and diverse. In a multivariate model with the diverse group as a reference, the limited group (B = −4.48, SE = 1.14, p

Date: 2023
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