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Impact of COVID-19 infodemic on psychological wellbeing and vaccine hesitancy
BACKGROUND: With COVID-19 pandemic, the world has witnessed a scenario that is unique compared to any other such pandemic that the world has grappled with. This is primarily owing to the parallel infodemic that the population faced with disinformation and misinformation explosion in several platform...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7934985/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s43168-021-00061-2 |
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description | BACKGROUND: With COVID-19 pandemic, the world has witnessed a scenario that is unique compared to any other such pandemic that the world has grappled with. This is primarily owing to the parallel infodemic that the population faced with disinformation and misinformation explosion in several platforms that an individual can access. MAIN BODY: The myriad of information that everyone in the world received acted as double-edged sword as some information helped individuals in allying the anxiety and stigma and motivated them for appropriate COVID-19 behavior; however, on the other hand, the same acted opposite and created a whole lot of negative problems in the community. The misinformation regarding the disease is not only limited to what has happened so far in the realm of prevention and control rather the same is also plaguing the efforts towards effective vaccine uptake. CONCLUSION: With the technological and media advancement, it is getting difficult to ward off every misinformation that is getting received at individual end which is obviously detrimental in the efforts toward effective vaccine acceptance; however, measures need to be taken at appropriate level to curb this menace of infodemic to relax the world from the clutch of this pandemic. This article looks at the impact of the misinformation and disinformation on psychological wellbeing and vaccine acceptance and suggests remedial measures. |
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spelling | pubmed-79349852021-03-08 Impact of COVID-19 infodemic on psychological wellbeing and vaccine hesitancy Samal, Janmejaya Egypt J Bronchol Reviews BACKGROUND: With COVID-19 pandemic, the world has witnessed a scenario that is unique compared to any other such pandemic that the world has grappled with. This is primarily owing to the parallel infodemic that the population faced with disinformation and misinformation explosion in several platforms that an individual can access. MAIN BODY: The myriad of information that everyone in the world received acted as double-edged sword as some information helped individuals in allying the anxiety and stigma and motivated them for appropriate COVID-19 behavior; however, on the other hand, the same acted opposite and created a whole lot of negative problems in the community. The misinformation regarding the disease is not only limited to what has happened so far in the realm of prevention and control rather the same is also plaguing the efforts towards effective vaccine uptake. CONCLUSION: With the technological and media advancement, it is getting difficult to ward off every misinformation that is getting received at individual end which is obviously detrimental in the efforts toward effective vaccine acceptance; however, measures need to be taken at appropriate level to curb this menace of infodemic to relax the world from the clutch of this pandemic. This article looks at the impact of the misinformation and disinformation on psychological wellbeing and vaccine acceptance and suggests remedial measures. Springer Berlin Heidelberg 2021-03-05 2021 /pmc/articles/PMC7934985/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s43168-021-00061-2 Text en © The Author(s) 2021 Open AccessThis article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. |
spellingShingle | Reviews Samal, Janmejaya Impact of COVID-19 infodemic on psychological wellbeing and vaccine hesitancy |
title | Impact of COVID-19 infodemic on psychological wellbeing and vaccine hesitancy |
title_full | Impact of COVID-19 infodemic on psychological wellbeing and vaccine hesitancy |
title_fullStr | Impact of COVID-19 infodemic on psychological wellbeing and vaccine hesitancy |
title_full_unstemmed | Impact of COVID-19 infodemic on psychological wellbeing and vaccine hesitancy |
title_short | Impact of COVID-19 infodemic on psychological wellbeing and vaccine hesitancy |
title_sort | impact of covid-19 infodemic on psychological wellbeing and vaccine hesitancy |
topic | Reviews |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7934985/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s43168-021-00061-2 |
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