The Role of Social Media in Knowledge, Perceptions, and Self-Reported Adherence Toward COVID-19 Prevention Guidelines: Cross-Sectional Study.
Background: Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, social media has served as a channel of communication, a venue for entertainment, and a mechanism for information dissemination. Objective: This study aims to assess the associations between social media use patterns; demographics; and knowledge, percept...
| Publicado en: | JMIR Infodemiology Vol. 4; no. 1; pp. 1 - 14 |
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2024
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