Health Information Seeking Behaviors on Social Media During the COVID-19 Pandemic Among American Social Networking Site Users: Survey Study

Stephen Neely; Christina Eldredge; Ron Sanders

Health Information Seeking Behaviors on Social Media During the COVID-19 Pandemic Among American Social Networking Site Users: Survey Study

Stephen Neely
, Christina Eldredge
, Ron Sanders

University of South Florida

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Abstract

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34043526/

Original language	American English
Journal	Journal of medical Internet research
State	Published - Jun 11 2021

Keywords

COVID-19
United States
Communication
Information seeking
internet
mistrust
public health
social media
survey
usage
web-based health information

Disciplines

Health Information Technology
Community Health and Preventive Medicine
Health Communication

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