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, following a study published by the American Psychological Association.
“Inaccurate information is a barrier to good medical attention because you can tell people to take preventative measures to avoid illness and make sure you do not hesitate to seek attention while being a nurse – advising the principal author, Laura D. Scherer, of Escuel of Colorado, and United States–. Identify who is most vulnerable to erroneous information could burn a significant perspective on how to diffuse information and burn new interventions ”.
In the study, published in the journal ‘Health Psychology’, researchers will include 1,020 people in the United States between the ages of 40 and 80 about the recent 24 publications on Facebook and Twitter about vacancies against VPH, medicines with states and treatment against 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.
Los hallazgos you can help public health workers unroll messages and more specifics about a variety of medical attention issues., according to investigators.
“People who are susceptible to erroneous information tend to be susceptible to the three types that menopause, on a vaccine, medications with states and treatment against cancer –sher Scherer–. One plausible implication is that these individuals are susceptible to many different types of erroneous information about health, which is why these hallucinations are potentially relevant to other medical attention problems than those we study here. This information may have implications for other public information sources, such as current affairs to cover 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 influence and dissemination of erroneous information about online health. Estos pasos podrían salvar ontelbare vidas ”, concluye.