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ArticleFrontiers in public health

Longitudinal Evidence of How Media Audiences Differ in Public Health Perceptions and Behaviors During a Global Pandemic.

Thomas Frissen, David De Coninck, Koenraad Matthys, Leen d'Haenens

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Article in Frontiers in public health. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.

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8 citing papers in PubMed.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Thomas FrissenFaculty of Social Sciences, Institute for Media Studies, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium.
David De ConinckFaculty of Social Sciences, Centre for Sociological Research, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium.
Koenraad MatthysFaculty of Social Sciences, Centre for Sociological Research, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium.
Leen d'HaenensFaculty of Social Sciences, Institute for Media Studies, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The current study investigates how public attitudes and perceptions about the COVID-19 pandemic evolve over time and influence self-reported health behaviors (e. g., social distancing). Specific attention was paid to respondents' exposure to different news media channels (public vs. commercial). We used data from a two-wave panel study with a 3-week interval (W1 at the start and W2 at the peak of the pandemic) and a large sample of the adult population in Flanders, Belgium (

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Attitude to HealthHealth BehaviorPublic OpinionAdultAgedAged, 80 and overBelgiumCOVID-19FemaleForecastingHumansLongitudinal StudiesMaleMass MediaMiddle AgedPandemicsCOVID-19longitudinal survey datamedia audiencesmedia exposurepublic health behaviorpublic health communication

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PMID33344397
PMCPMC7738464

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