ArticleInfection, disease & health2020
News coverage of the COVID-19 pandemic: Missed opportunities to promote health sustaining behaviors.
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19 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- To comply or not comply? A latent profile analysis of behaviours and attitudes during the COVID-19 pandemic.PloS one · 2021Pooled it
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- COVID-19 messages targeting young people on social media: content analysis of Australian health authority posts.Health promotion international · 2023Article
- Perceptions of the SARS-CoV2 pandemic: a small comparative survey analysis between language preference populations in a United States community health center.Pathogens and global health · 2023Article
- Communicating science in the COVID-19 news in the UK during Omicron waves: exploring representations of nature of science with epistemic network analysis.Humanities & social sciences communications · 2023Article
- Solidarity appraisal, meaning, and markers of welfare in frontline workers in the UK and Ireland during the Covid-19 pandemic.SSM. Mental health · 2022Article
- Understanding the content of COVID-19 vaccination and pregnancy videos on YouTube: An analysis of videos published at the start of the vaccine rollout.Human vaccines & immunotherapeutics · 2022Article
- Media Use During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Cross-sectional Study.Journal of medical Internet research · 2022Article
- Online News Coverage of COVID-19 Long Haul Symptoms.Journal of community health · 2022Article
- Engaging social media users with attitudinal messages during health crisis communication.Lingua. International review of general linguistics. Revue internationale de linguistique generale · 2022Article
- The impact of COVID-19 on a cohort of patients treated with clozapine.Irish journal of psychological medicine · 2021Article
- A neglected reality of mass media during COVID-19: Effect of pandemic news on individual's positive and negative emotion and psychological resilience.Personality and individual differences · 2021Article
- Precautionary Behaviors during the Second and Third Phases of the COVID-19 Pandemic: Comparative Study in the Latin American Population.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021Article
- Factors Influencing Anxiety Among WeChat Users During the Early Stages of the COVID-19 Pandemic in Mainland China: Cross-sectional Survey Study.Journal of medical Internet research · 2021Article
- Promoting Mask Use on TikTok: Descriptive, Cross-sectional Study.JMIR public health and surveillance · 2021Article
- Social Sustainability Challenges Towards Flexible Supply Chain Management: Post-COVID-19 Perspective.Global journal of flexible systems management · 2021Article
- "It's Like a Kick in the Teeth": The Emergence of Novel Predictors of Burnout in Frontline Workers During Covid-19.Frontiers in psychology · 2021Article
- How People Emotionally Respond to the News on COVID-19: An Online Survey.Basic and clinical neuroscienceArticle
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Abstract
backgroundGiven that individuals may make health decisions based on mass media coverage, and given that such decisions have broad consequences in the case of highly contagious infectious disease, it is imperative that public health practitioners are aware of mass media coverage on emerging health threats such as COVID-19. The purpose of this study was to examine the content of news segments covering COVID-19 posted on-line.
methodsUsing the Google Videos function on a cleared browser, all videos identified from January and February, 2020 were archived by URL for analysis. After applying exclusion criteria, a total of 401 remained, comprising the sample. Content categories derived from trusted sources were applied to assess the content of broadcast news segments pertaining to COVID-19 on Google Videos.
resultsThe most common topic mentioned across all videos was death and the death rate (43.6%) and many connoted anxieties surrounding the COVID-19 outbreak (37.4%). Critically important information about the prevention of COVID-19 spread received little attention. For example, only 3.0% of videos discussed coughing into or blowing one's nose into a tissue and throwing the tissue away, 6.2% talked about wearing a facemask when caring for the ill, and 8.8% covered disinfecting highly touched objects and surfaces. International videos more often presented captions and English subtitles (with and without narration) (7.8% vs. 0.9%, p = 0.018) and even more frequently discussed death and the death rate associated with COVID-19 (56.9% vs. 41.7%, p = 0.04).
conclusionCoupled with the resultant increase in negative emotion, the majority of videos missed an opportunity to reframe messages to encourage and promote coping strategies and health sustaining behaviors. Future videos should avoid contributing to negative emotion.
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