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Findings of a study by Pan, Liu & Fang (2021) about health misinformation acceptance

The hypotheses were supported. Health-related anxiety, preexisting beliefs and repeated exposure were significantly, positively related to people's health misinformation acceptance. Furthermore, they found that meaningful associations between demographic data and health misinformation acceptance. Women were more likely to believe health misinformation than men. Age correlated significantly, negatively with health misinformation acceptance. Income and educational level (as indicators of socio-economic status) were significantly, negatively correlated with health misinformation acceptance.

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Updated 2021-07-30

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