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Navigating a Pandemic: A Qualitative Study of Knowledge, Sources of Information, and COVID-19-Related Precautions Taken by HBCU Students
The coronavirus (COVID-19) has spread quickly across the nation with a disproportionate impact on Black Americans. Many college-aged students receive their COVID-19-related information through social media and television even though research suggests that social media sources are more likely to be i...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8760116/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35032009 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s40615-021-01210-5 |
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author | Wade, Jeannette Poit, Stephanie Teixeira Lee, Anna Ryman, Sally McCain, Dextiny Doss, Christopher Shrestha, Smriti Morgan, Adrienne Aiken |
author_facet | Wade, Jeannette Poit, Stephanie Teixeira Lee, Anna Ryman, Sally McCain, Dextiny Doss, Christopher Shrestha, Smriti Morgan, Adrienne Aiken |
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description | The coronavirus (COVID-19) has spread quickly across the nation with a disproportionate impact on Black Americans. Many college-aged students receive their COVID-19-related information through social media and television even though research suggests that social media sources are more likely to be incorrect. Some students report trusting these sources over government sources such as the CDC and WHO. The purpose of this study was to understand Historically Black College and University (HBCU) students’ COVID-19 knowledge, sources of information, and planned precautions. There were 21 in-depth interviews conducted with students attending a large southern HBCU during Spring 2020. Themes regarding knowledge included the following: it is a flu-like condition, it has international roots, there is inaccurate and changing information, and it is a pandemic. Themes regarding sources included: the news, US government and related officials, social media, interactions with family, and other social interactions. Themes regarding severity included the following: statistics, a distrust for hospital reporting, a belief that COVID-19 deaths were conflated with baseline health, peer influence, and familial influence. Themes regarding precautions included the following: proper mask use, hand washing/ sanitizing, avoiding large crowds/small crowds only, physical distancing, COVID-19 testing/symptom monitoring, and COVID-19 vaccination. |
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spelling | pubmed-87601162022-01-18 Navigating a Pandemic: A Qualitative Study of Knowledge, Sources of Information, and COVID-19-Related Precautions Taken by HBCU Students Wade, Jeannette Poit, Stephanie Teixeira Lee, Anna Ryman, Sally McCain, Dextiny Doss, Christopher Shrestha, Smriti Morgan, Adrienne Aiken J Racial Ethn Health Disparities Article The coronavirus (COVID-19) has spread quickly across the nation with a disproportionate impact on Black Americans. Many college-aged students receive their COVID-19-related information through social media and television even though research suggests that social media sources are more likely to be incorrect. Some students report trusting these sources over government sources such as the CDC and WHO. The purpose of this study was to understand Historically Black College and University (HBCU) students’ COVID-19 knowledge, sources of information, and planned precautions. There were 21 in-depth interviews conducted with students attending a large southern HBCU during Spring 2020. Themes regarding knowledge included the following: it is a flu-like condition, it has international roots, there is inaccurate and changing information, and it is a pandemic. Themes regarding sources included: the news, US government and related officials, social media, interactions with family, and other social interactions. Themes regarding severity included the following: statistics, a distrust for hospital reporting, a belief that COVID-19 deaths were conflated with baseline health, peer influence, and familial influence. Themes regarding precautions included the following: proper mask use, hand washing/ sanitizing, avoiding large crowds/small crowds only, physical distancing, COVID-19 testing/symptom monitoring, and COVID-19 vaccination. Springer International Publishing 2022-01-15 2023 /pmc/articles/PMC8760116/ /pubmed/35032009 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s40615-021-01210-5 Text en © W. Montague Cobb-NMA Health Institute 2021 This article is made available via the PMC Open Access Subset for unrestricted research re-use and secondary analysis in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for the duration of the World Health Organization (WHO) declaration of COVID-19 as a global pandemic. |
spellingShingle | Article Wade, Jeannette Poit, Stephanie Teixeira Lee, Anna Ryman, Sally McCain, Dextiny Doss, Christopher Shrestha, Smriti Morgan, Adrienne Aiken Navigating a Pandemic: A Qualitative Study of Knowledge, Sources of Information, and COVID-19-Related Precautions Taken by HBCU Students |
title | Navigating a Pandemic: A Qualitative Study of Knowledge, Sources of Information, and COVID-19-Related Precautions Taken by HBCU Students |
title_full | Navigating a Pandemic: A Qualitative Study of Knowledge, Sources of Information, and COVID-19-Related Precautions Taken by HBCU Students |
title_fullStr | Navigating a Pandemic: A Qualitative Study of Knowledge, Sources of Information, and COVID-19-Related Precautions Taken by HBCU Students |
title_full_unstemmed | Navigating a Pandemic: A Qualitative Study of Knowledge, Sources of Information, and COVID-19-Related Precautions Taken by HBCU Students |
title_short | Navigating a Pandemic: A Qualitative Study of Knowledge, Sources of Information, and COVID-19-Related Precautions Taken by HBCU Students |
title_sort | navigating a pandemic: a qualitative study of knowledge, sources of information, and covid-19-related precautions taken by hbcu students |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8760116/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35032009 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s40615-021-01210-5 |
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