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dc.contributor.authorSuperio, Daryl
dc.contributor.authorAnderson, Kristen
dc.contributor.authorOducado, Ryan Michael
dc.contributor.authorLuceño, Myrna
dc.contributor.authorPalcullo, Vince
dc.contributor.authorBendalian, Maria Vanessa
dc.date.accessioned2021-06-28T03:27:48Z
dc.date.available2021-06-28T03:27:48Z
dc.date.issued2021-06-24
dc.identifier.citationSuperio, D. L., Anderson, K. L., Oducado, R. M. F., Luceño, M. T., Palcullo, V. E. V., & Bendalian, M. V. T. (2021). The information-seeking behavior and levels of knowledge, precaution, and fear of college students in Iloilo, Philippines amidst the COVID-19 pandemic. International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, 62, 102414. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijdrr.2021.102414en
dc.identifier.issn2212-4209
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10862/6071
dc.description.abstractCOVID-19 pandemic is devastating the health, social, and economic well-being of citizens worldwide. The high rates of morbidity and mortality and the absence of vaccines cause fear among the people regardless of age, gender, or social status. People's fear is heightened by misinformation spread across all media types, especially on social media. Filipino college students are one of the top Internet users worldwide and are very active in social media. Hence they are very prone to misinformation. This paper aims to ascertain the levels of knowledge, precaution, and fear of COVID-19 of the college students in Iloilo, Philippines, and determine the effects of their information-seeking behavior on the variables above. This paper is a cross-sectional survey that used a qualitative-quantitative method and snowball sampling technique. Data were gathered among 228 college students using an online survey instrument a few months after the pandemic began. College students were knowledgeable of the basic facts about the highly infectious COVID-19. However, the majority were inclined to believe the myths and misinformation regarding the pandemic. Television was the primary, most believable, and preferred source when seeking information. The Internet as a preferred source of information was significantly associated with a high level of knowledge. In contrast, the information sourced from interpersonal channels were found to make college students very cautious. The local presence of COVID-19 cases had caused college students to fear, likely exacerbated by the plethora of information about the pandemic, mostly from Facebook. This is the first study conducted on the effects of the information-seeking behavior on the levels of knowledge, precaution, and fear of COVID-19 of the college students in Iloilo, Philippines.en
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherElsevieren
dc.relation.urihttps://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2212420921003757/pdfen
dc.subjectHealth crisisen
dc.subjectInformation sourcesen
dc.subjectmass mediaen
dc.subjectInterpersonal channelsen
dc.subjectFacebooken
dc.subjectPhilippinesen
dc.titleThe information-seeking behavior and levels of knowledge, precaution, and fear of college students in Iloilo, Philippines amidst the COVID-19 pandemicen
dc.typeArticleen
dc.citation.volume62
dc.citation.spage102414
dc.citation.journalTitleInternational Journal of Disaster Risk Reductionen
dc.subject.asfaeducationen
dc.subject.asfainformation servicesen
dc.subject.asfabehaviouren
dc.subject.asfasocial mediaen
dc.identifier.doi10.1016/j.ijdrr.2021.102414


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