ReviewFrontiers in psychiatry2021
Public Emotional and Coping Responses to the COVID-19 Infodemic: A Review and Recommendations.
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- Development of a Conceptual Framework of Health Misinformation During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Systematic Review of Reviews.JMIR public health and surveillance · 2025Pooled it
- A meta-analytic review of the associations between dimensions of religious coping and psychological symptoms during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2023Pooled it
- Impact of the COVID-19 outbreak on work, life patterns, and coping behaviours of military personnel in Brunei Darussalam.Scientific reports · 2026Article
- An Integrated theoretical framework predicting COVID-19 vaccine behavioral intention among unvaccinated students: A lesson for health educators in future pandemics.Journal of education and health promotion · 2025Article
- Influence of information anxiety on core competency of registered nurses: mediating effect of digital health literacy.BMC nursing · 2024Article
- Trends of fear and anger on YouTube during the initial stage of the COVID-19 outbreak in South Korea.BMC public health · 2024Article
- The coronavirus disease 2019 infodemic: a concept analysis.Frontiers in public health · 2024Article
- Unveiling Coronasomnia: Pandemic Stress and Sleep Problems During the COVID-19 Outbreak.Nature and science of sleep · 2024Review
- The impact of the self-recognition ability and physical quality on coupled negative information-behavior-epidemic dynamics in multiplex networks.Chaos, solitons, and fractals · 2023Article
- The effect of social media and infodemic on mental health during the COVID-19 pandemic: results from the COMET multicentric trial.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2023Article
- Social media addiction as a mediator of the associations between fear of COVID-19, mental health symptoms, and problematic alcohol use.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2023Article
- Participatory action research to co-design a culturally appropriate COVID-19 risk communication and community engagement strategy in rural Pakistan.Frontiers in public health · 2023Article
- Lessons from COVID-19 for future disasters: an opinion paper.Revista espanola de quimioterapia : publicacion oficial de la Sociedad Espanola de Quimioterapia · 2022Review
- Time-Series Associations between Public Interest in COVID-19 Variants and National Vaccination Rate: A Google Trends Analysis.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
- Cross-Verification of COVID-19 Information Obtained From Unofficial Social Media Accounts and Associated Changes in Health Behaviors: Web-Based Questionnaire Study Among Chinese Netizens.JMIR public health and surveillance · 2022Article
- Role of COVID-19 Anxiety and Community Risk Factors on Physical Distancing Practice.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
- Social Media Addiction during COVID-19-Mandated Physical Distancing: Relatedness Needs as Motives.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
- Mass Media Use to Learn About COVID-19 and the Non-intention to Be Vaccinated Against COVID-19 in Latin America and Caribbean Countries.Frontiers in medicine · 2022Article
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Abstract
Since its onset in early 2020, the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has adversely affected not only the physical but also the mental health of people worldwide. Healthcare professionals and laypersons have sought to learn more about this novel and highly transmissible disease to better understand its etiology, treatment, and prevention. However, information overload and misinformation related to COVID-19 have elicited considerable public anxiety and created additional health threats. Collectively, these problems have been recognized by the World Health Organization as an "infodemic." This review provides an overview of the global challenges posed by the COVID-19 infodemic, and used the psychological entropy model as a guiding framework to explicate the potential causes of the infodemic and identify potential solutions to mitigate impacts on public health. We first examine the role of anxiety in information processing and then delineate the adverse impacts of the infodemic. Finally, we propose strategies to combat the infodemic at the public, community, and individual levels.
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