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} }
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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