ArticleTrends in psychology2023
The Negative Impact of Social Media during COVID-19 Pandemic.
Article in Trends in psychology, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 13 papers.
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- Social Media Fact-Checking: The Effects of News Literacy and News Trust on the Intent to Verify Health-Related Information.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- The Role of Social Media in Health Misinformation and Disinformation During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Bibliometric Analysis.JMIR infodemiology · 2023Article
- Exposure to the COVID-19 news on social media and consequent psychological distress and potential behavioral change.Scientific reports · 2023Article
- Incidence, Risk Factors, and Consequences of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder Symptoms in Survivors of COVID-19-Related ARDS.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2023Observational
- Social Media, Anxiety and COVID-19 Lockdown Measurement Compliance.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2023Article
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- The Illness Experience of Long COVID Patients: A Qualitative Study Based on the Online Q&A Community Zhihu.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
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Abstract
The coronavirus pandemic is a global pandemic of Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) resulting from the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV2). Despite its numerous benefits for sharing health information, social media has raised several concerns in terms of posing panic among the general population around the world during the COVID-19 pandemic. The main objective of this study was to investigate the negative impact of social media during the COVID-19 outbreak. A web-based poll was used to collect data from social media users. Snowball sampling was used to acquire information from participants for 1 month, from September 1 to September 30, 2020. To examine the effect of social media on fear among participants, the study employed Cohen's d statistic, analysis of variance, Chi-squared test, and linear regression analysis. The study results showed that more than three-fourth (73.26%) used Facebook followed by Telegram by 14.49%. Health news was the most frequently seen, read, or heard with 88.20% of the total. Moreover, 86.73% of respondents experienced panic, while only 13.27% was not. Compared to males, females were more likely to follow health news (
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