• DOI:10.1017/S003329172000224X
Corpus ID: 219550692

Health-protective behaviour, social media usage and conspiracy belief during the COVID-19 public health emergency

@article{Allington2020HealthprotectiveBS,
  title={Health-protective behaviour, social media usage and conspiracy belief during the COVID-19 public health emergency},
  author={D. Allington and B. Duffy and S. Wessely and Nayana Dhavan and J. Rubin},
  journal={Psychological Medicine},
  year={2020},
  pages={1 - 7}
}

D. Allington, B. Duffy, +2 authors J. Rubin

Published 2020

Psychology, Medicine

Psychological Medicine

Background Social media platforms have long been recognised as major disseminators of health misinformation. Many previous studies have found a negative association between health-protective behaviours and belief in the specific form of misinformation popularly known as ‘conspiracy theory’. Concerns have arisen regarding the spread of COVID-19 conspiracy theories on social media. Methods Three questionnaire surveys of social media use, conspiracy beliefs and health-protective behaviours with… CONTINUE READING

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