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Health Information Seeking Among University Students Before and During the Corona Crisis—Findings From Germany
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health informationseeking behavior process gathering information health disease influential healthrelated perception behavior university students important target group prevention health promotion largely belong age group considered play leading role propagating sarscov2 epidemic germany paper deals students health informationseeking behavior corona crisis aiming give insights determinants implications using example large german comprehensive university based two crosssectional surveys summer 2019 n 4351 2020 n 3066 investigate information channels students use health information information seeking changes course pandemic extent information seeking associated risk perception risk behavior subsample participants participated surveys n 443 also trace developments individual level longitudinal analysis results show students health information seeking takes place primarily online changed markedly corona crisis comparatively high relevance sources largely based unchecked usergenerated content raises concern whether students health informationseeking behavior guarantees necessary quality reliability health information significant correlations intensity coronarelated information seeking risk perception actual risk behavior found