Maasoumeh Barkhordari-Sharifabad, Saeed Vaziri-Yazdi, Mansoureh Barkhordari-Sharifabad
The effect of teaching puberty health concepts on the basis of a health belief model for improving perceived body image of female adolescents: a quasi-experimental study
BMC public health
deluge covid19 misinformation makes people confused acting misinformation kill leading tragic outcome death makes necessary identify significant factors associated college students susceptibility descriptive study sought ascertain factors significantly associated college students susceptibility online covid19 misinformation assess college students susceptibility covid19 misinformation first chose independent variables demographic information welldeveloped validated literacy tools patient health questionnaire9 items second selected dependent variable covid19 myths authoritative official websites third integrated independent dependent variables online questionnaire fourth recruited students nantong university china participate online questionnaire survey finally based data collected conducted quantitative qualitative analyses relate independent variables dependent variable five hundred fortysix students participated survey voluntarily questionnaires answered valid participants average 232 sd 099 years higher education mean age 2044 sd 152 years 434 795 546 participants females frequency internet use averaged 391 sd 041 indicating logged onto internet almost every day selfreported internet skill rated 379 sd 107 indicating participants rated internet skills basically good mean scores subconstructs aahls 614 sd 137 functional health literacy 510 sd 165 communicative health literacy 1113 sd 265 critical health literacy mean scores indicated participants needed help read healthrelated materials sometimes frequency knew communicate effectively professional health providers often sometimes frequency critical health information often sometimes respectively sum scores ehealth literacy averaged 2829 sd 531 showing relatively high ehealth literacy level mean score question ghnt determined 131 sd 046 136 sd 048 141 sd 049 177 sd 042 151 sd 050 154 sd 050 respectively mean scores showed high percentage participants answered 6 questions wrongly especially questions 46 similarly participants performed unsatisfactorily answering 3 questions crt mean score 175 sd 043 155 sd 050 159 sd 049 question respectively phq9 participants reported never felt depressed felt depressed 13 days past week mean score myths 16 910 ranged 115 sd 036 129 sd 046 meant participants rated myths false however participants rated myths 78 true 154 sd 050 149 sd 050 showing highly susceptible 2 pieces misinformation data analysis via logistic regression forward stepwise found 1 average threshold 05 internet use frequency functional health literacy general health numeracy reflective thinking tendency depression severity significant predictors susceptibility misinformation male female students 2 higher threshold 08 aggregated general health numeracy scores functional health literacy scores well depression severity predictors susceptibility misinformation male female students 3 functional health literacy general health literacy depression predicted resistance misinformation female students 4 internet use frequency selfreported digital health literacy predicted resistance misinformation male students revealed complexity dynamics differences age gender education internet exposure communicative health literacy cognitive skills concerning college students susceptibility online covid19 misinformation hopefully study provide valuable implications counteracting covid19 misinformation among chinese college students