MADRID, 2 MARCH (EUROPE PRESS) –
Although many people are screened with erroneous information that appears on Facebook and Twitter when it comes to those with lower level of education or health care, with a tendency to use alternative medicine or with dissonance in the health care system, its most likely to create public medicine inexact that the rest, according to a study published by the American Association of Psychology.
“Inaccurate information is a barrier to good medical attention because it can dissuade people from taking preventative measures to prevent infertility and to make duden seek attention while being a nurse – advised principal author Laura D. Scherer of Esc. Medicina de Colorado, en Estados Unidos–. Identifying who is most susceptible to erroneous information could burn a significant perspective on how to disseminate information and burn new interventions “.
In the study, published in the journal ‘Health Health Psychology’, and researchers offer 1,020 people in United States between the ages of 40 and 80 on the price of 24 recent publications on Facebook and Twitter about vacancies against the VPH, medicines with statins and treatment against the cancer.
The investigators share with the participants an equal number of valid publications and falsifications for the three medical problems. False claims include asserting that the red levorosis arrow is more effective at reducing cholesterol than states, marijuana, ginger and leeks can help cure cancer and vaccines against VPH are dangerous.
If participants pay attention to the evaluations, if their publications are completely false, in their false majority, in their bail bonds are completely false. The investigators hiccuped following questions, including the level of education of the participants, the interests in alternative treatment, the compensation of the problems of medical attention, the ingressos and the oath.
Participants with higher levels of education and literacy in health are more likely to create erroneous information, find the investigators. Those who are discontinued from the medical attention system or those who have positive behaviors have the alternative medicine also tend to create erroneous information about the three health themes with more frequency than others in the study. In addition, participants who make erroneous information about a health problem tend to be more susceptible to erroneous information about other health topics.
The health authorities can help public health officials unpack messages and more specific information about a variety of medical attention problems, including investigators.
“People who are susceptible to erroneous information tend to be susceptible to the three types that mothers, about a vaccine, medications with states and treatment against cancer – Scherer season–. A possible implication is that these people are susceptible There are many different types of erroneous information about health, as these may be potentially relevant to other medical attention problems than those we are studying here. Course to abort COVID-19 “.
However, it is necessary to carry out more investigations in order to fully comprehend the erroneous information cycles, says Scherer. “We hope that the investigators will be able to base these statements and disable new interventions and bases in evidence to reduce the impact and diffusion of erroneous information on online health. These steps can save innumerable lives”, concludes.