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Panic buying: An insight from the content analysis of media reports during COVID-19 pandemic

BACKGROUND: Panic buying is an emerging phenomenon observed during, but not restricted to, pandemic. AIM: We aimed to evaluate the nature, extent, and impact of panic buying as reported in the media. METHODS: This study was conducted by collecting the information from the English media reports publi...

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Autores principales: Arafat, S.M. Yasir, Kar, Sujita Kumar, Menon, Vikas, Kaliamoorthy, Charanya, Mukherjee, Srijeeta, Alradie-Mohamed, Angi, Sharma, Pawan, Marthoenis, Marthoenis, Kabir, Russell
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Publicado: Elsevier GmbH. 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7365627/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32834528
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.npbr.2020.07.002
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author Arafat, S.M. Yasir
Kar, Sujita Kumar
Menon, Vikas
Kaliamoorthy, Charanya
Mukherjee, Srijeeta
Alradie-Mohamed, Angi
Sharma, Pawan
Marthoenis, Marthoenis
Kabir, Russell
author_facet Arafat, S.M. Yasir
Kar, Sujita Kumar
Menon, Vikas
Kaliamoorthy, Charanya
Mukherjee, Srijeeta
Alradie-Mohamed, Angi
Sharma, Pawan
Marthoenis, Marthoenis
Kabir, Russell
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description BACKGROUND: Panic buying is an emerging phenomenon observed during, but not restricted to, pandemic. AIM: We aimed to evaluate the nature, extent, and impact of panic buying as reported in the media. METHODS: This study was conducted by collecting the information from the English media reports published till 22nd May 2020. A structured format was developed to collect data. Searching was done by using the keyword “panic buying”. We have excluded the social media posts discussing the panic buying. RESULTS: The majority of media reporting was from the USA (40.7 %), and about 46 % of reports highlighted the scarce item. Approximately 82 % of the reports presented the causes of panic buying whereas almost 80 % report covered the impact of it. About 25.7 % of reports highlighted the rumor about panic buying and only 9.3 % of reports blamed the government. Only 27.1 % reports described the remedial measures, 30.8 % reports conferred the news on the psychology behind panic buying and 67.3 % news displayed the images of empty shelves. CONCLUSION: A high proportion of reports on panic buying have been found from the developed countries discussing the causes & impact of panic buying on the basis of expert opinion.
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spelling pubmed-73656272020-07-17 Panic buying: An insight from the content analysis of media reports during COVID-19 pandemic Arafat, S.M. Yasir Kar, Sujita Kumar Menon, Vikas Kaliamoorthy, Charanya Mukherjee, Srijeeta Alradie-Mohamed, Angi Sharma, Pawan Marthoenis, Marthoenis Kabir, Russell Neurol Psychiatry Brain Res Article BACKGROUND: Panic buying is an emerging phenomenon observed during, but not restricted to, pandemic. AIM: We aimed to evaluate the nature, extent, and impact of panic buying as reported in the media. METHODS: This study was conducted by collecting the information from the English media reports published till 22nd May 2020. A structured format was developed to collect data. Searching was done by using the keyword “panic buying”. We have excluded the social media posts discussing the panic buying. RESULTS: The majority of media reporting was from the USA (40.7 %), and about 46 % of reports highlighted the scarce item. Approximately 82 % of the reports presented the causes of panic buying whereas almost 80 % report covered the impact of it. About 25.7 % of reports highlighted the rumor about panic buying and only 9.3 % of reports blamed the government. Only 27.1 % reports described the remedial measures, 30.8 % reports conferred the news on the psychology behind panic buying and 67.3 % news displayed the images of empty shelves. CONCLUSION: A high proportion of reports on panic buying have been found from the developed countries discussing the causes & impact of panic buying on the basis of expert opinion. Elsevier GmbH. 2020-09 2020-07-16 /pmc/articles/PMC7365627/ /pubmed/32834528 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.npbr.2020.07.002 Text en © 2020 Elsevier GmbH. All rights reserved. Since January 2020 Elsevier has created a COVID-19 resource centre with free information in English and Mandarin on the novel coronavirus COVID-19. The COVID-19 resource centre is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company's public news and information website. Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its COVID-19-related research that is available on the COVID-19 resource centre - including this research content - immediately available in PubMed Central and other publicly funded repositories, such as the WHO COVID database with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the COVID-19 resource centre remains active.
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Kar, Sujita Kumar
Menon, Vikas
Kaliamoorthy, Charanya
Mukherjee, Srijeeta
Alradie-Mohamed, Angi
Sharma, Pawan
Marthoenis, Marthoenis
Kabir, Russell
Panic buying: An insight from the content analysis of media reports during COVID-19 pandemic
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7365627/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32834528
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.npbr.2020.07.002
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