Effects of Health Literacy in the Fight Against the COVID-19 Infodemic: The Case of Japan
Effects of Health Literacy in the Fight Against the COVID-19 Infodemic: The Case of Japan
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DOI：
10.1080/10410236.2022.2065745
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发表时间：
2022-05-05
影响因子：
3.9
通讯作者：
Nishikawa, Masaru
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作者：
Cheng, John W.;Nishikawa, Masaru
这项研究定量研究了健康素养是否可以减少对COVID-19错误信息和阴谋论的信念。通过对2021年日本1，488名成年人的调查数据进行路径和聚类分析，我们发现，虽然健康素养降低了人们对COVID-19和疫苗接种错误信息的信念，但对他们对COVID-19阴谋论的信念没有直接影响。尽管如此，研究结果也强调了健康素养的重要性。研究发现，即使高健康素养并不能保证低程度的阴谋信念，低健康素养与高敏感性的错误信息和阴谋理论。此外，研究发现，更多依赖社交媒体而非大众媒体获取COVID-19新闻，并报告受疫情影响更严重的人，健康素养更低，更容易相信错误信息和阴谋论。根据调查结果，我们讨论了如何加强日本的健康素养研究和推广。
This study quantitatively examines whether health literacy can reduce belief in COVID-19 misinformation and conspiracy theories. Conducting path and cluster analyses on survey data collected from 1,488 adults in Japan in 2021, we found that while health literacy reduces people's belief about COVID-19 and vaccination misinformation, it has no direct effect on their belief in COVID-19 conspiracy theories. That said, the results also highlighted the importance of health literacy. It is found that even though high health literacy does not guarantee a low degree of conspiracy beliefs, low health literacy is associated with high susceptibility to both misinformation and conspiracy theories. Moreover, people who relied more on social media than mass media for COVID-19 news and reported on having been more severely affected by the pandemic were found to be more likely to have lower health literacy and higher belief in misinformation and conspiracy theories. Based on the findings, we discussed ways to enhance health literacy research and promotion in Japan.