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Access to Digital Information and Protective Awareness and Practices towards COVID-19 in Urban Marginalized Communities

Due to digital inequality, poor living, and health care conditions, marginalized people are the most vulnerable group to the COVID-19 pandemic. This study examined how digital information influences knowledge, practices, threat appraisals, and motivation behaviors of urban marginalized communities....

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Autores principales: Pattanasri, Siwarat, Nguyen, Thi Phuoc Lai, Vu, Thanh Bien, Winijkul, Ekbordin, Ahmad, Mokbul Morshed
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: MDPI 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9222575/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35742147
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/healthcare10061097
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author Pattanasri, Siwarat
Nguyen, Thi Phuoc Lai
Vu, Thanh Bien
Winijkul, Ekbordin
Ahmad, Mokbul Morshed
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description Due to digital inequality, poor living, and health care conditions, marginalized people are the most vulnerable group to the COVID-19 pandemic. This study examined how digital information influences knowledge, practices, threat appraisals, and motivation behaviors of urban marginalized communities. It examined slum people’s digital competencies, their access to COVID-19 online information, and their trust in COVID-19 information provided by both online and offline media. A total of 453 slum people in Bangkok city, Thailand were surveyed, and multiple regression was performed to examine whether socio-demographic factors influence the access to online communication of slum people. We hypothesized that access to online information might affect marginalized people’s awareness of COVID-19 and resulted in greater levels of their practices and protective behaviors. The finding showed that slum people who had access to online information tended to have a better awareness of self-protection against COVID-19, while elderly, female, and foreign migrant workers faced a number of constraints in accessing COVID-19 online information. Such results are important considering the pandemic is compelling societies to turn toward digital technologies to confront the COVID-19 pandemic and address pandemic-related issues. We also discuss how to enhance the role of digital communication in helping urban marginalized communities during and after the pandemic.
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spelling pubmed-92225752022-06-24 Access to Digital Information and Protective Awareness and Practices towards COVID-19 in Urban Marginalized Communities Pattanasri, Siwarat Nguyen, Thi Phuoc Lai Vu, Thanh Bien Winijkul, Ekbordin Ahmad, Mokbul Morshed Healthcare (Basel) Article Due to digital inequality, poor living, and health care conditions, marginalized people are the most vulnerable group to the COVID-19 pandemic. This study examined how digital information influences knowledge, practices, threat appraisals, and motivation behaviors of urban marginalized communities. It examined slum people’s digital competencies, their access to COVID-19 online information, and their trust in COVID-19 information provided by both online and offline media. A total of 453 slum people in Bangkok city, Thailand were surveyed, and multiple regression was performed to examine whether socio-demographic factors influence the access to online communication of slum people. We hypothesized that access to online information might affect marginalized people’s awareness of COVID-19 and resulted in greater levels of their practices and protective behaviors. The finding showed that slum people who had access to online information tended to have a better awareness of self-protection against COVID-19, while elderly, female, and foreign migrant workers faced a number of constraints in accessing COVID-19 online information. Such results are important considering the pandemic is compelling societies to turn toward digital technologies to confront the COVID-19 pandemic and address pandemic-related issues. We also discuss how to enhance the role of digital communication in helping urban marginalized communities during and after the pandemic. MDPI 2022-06-13 /pmc/articles/PMC9222575/ /pubmed/35742147 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/healthcare10061097 Text en © 2022 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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Access to Digital Information and Protective Awareness and Practices towards COVID-19 in Urban Marginalized Communities
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title_short Access to Digital Information and Protective Awareness and Practices towards COVID-19 in Urban Marginalized Communities
title_sort access to digital information and protective awareness and practices towards covid-19 in urban marginalized communities
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9222575/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35742147
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/healthcare10061097
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