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How Does Digital Media Search for COVID-19 Influence Vaccine Hesitancy? Exploring the Trade-off between Google Trends, Infodemics, Conspiracy Beliefs and Religious Fatalism.
Gao, Jiayue; Raza, Syed Hassan; Yousaf, Muhammad; Shah, Amjad Ali; Hussain, Iltaf; Malik, Aqdas.
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  • Gao J; The Bartlett, UCL Faculty of the Built Environment, University College London, London WC1E 6BT, UK.
  • Raza SH; Institute of Media and Communication Studies, Bahauddin Zakariya University, Multan 66000, Pakistan.
  • Yousaf M; Centre for Media and Communication Studies, University of Gujrat, Gujrat 50700, Pakistan.
  • Shah AA; Institute of Media and Communication Studies, Bahauddin Zakariya University, Multan 66000, Pakistan.
  • Hussain I; Department of Medicine, Health Science Centre, Xi'an Jiaotong University China, Xi'an, 710000, China.
  • Malik A; Department of Information Systems, Sultan Qaboos University, Muscat 112, Oman.
Vaccines (Basel) ; 11(1)2023 Jan 03.
Article en En | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-36679959
Digital media has remained problematic during COVID-19 because it has been the source of false and unverified facts. This was particularly evident in the widespread misinformation and confusion regarding the COVID-19 vaccine. Past research suggested infodemics, conspiracy beliefs, and religious fatalism as potential threats to public COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy. However, the literature is primarily void of empirical evidence associating demographic attributes with efforts to build vaccine hesitancy. Therefore, this research uses two studies: (Study 1) Google Trends and (Study 2) survey method to provide inclusive empirical insight into public use of digital media during COVID-19 and the detrimental effects of infodemics, conspiracy beliefs, and religious fatalism as they were related to building COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy. Using Google Trends based on popular keywords the public searched over one year, Study 1 explores public digital media use during COVID-19. Drawing on this exploration, Study 2 used a cross-sectional national representative survey of 2120 adult Pakistanis to describe the influence of potential hazards such as infodemics on public vaccine hesitancy. Study 2 revealed that infodemics, conspiracy beliefs, and religious fatalism predict vaccine hesitancy. In addition, gender moderates the relationship between infodemics and conspiracy beliefs and vaccine hesitancy. This implies that there is a dispositional effect of the infodemics and conspiracy beliefs spread digitally. This study's findings benefit health and other concerned authorities to help them reduce religious fatalism, vaccine hesitancy, and conspiracy theories with targeted communication campaigns on digital media.
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Texto completo: 1 Colección: 01-internacional Base de datos: MEDLINE Tipo de estudio: Prognostic_studies Idioma: En Revista: Vaccines (Basel) Año: 2023 Tipo del documento: Article Pais de publicación: Suiza
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Texto completo: 1 Colección: 01-internacional Base de datos: MEDLINE Tipo de estudio: Prognostic_studies Idioma: En Revista: Vaccines (Basel) Año: 2023 Tipo del documento: Article Pais de publicación: Suiza