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The Contributions of Childhood Vaccination Misconceptions to the Evaluation and Sharing of Information from Multiple Internet Texts
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Kessler, Erica D.; Braasch, Jason L. G.; Kardash, CarolAnne M. – Reading Psychology, 2021
The current work was conducted to better understand the influences of source presence and individual differences on evaluating and sharing information from multiple conflicting Internet texts about childhood vaccinations. The results indicate that college student readers appeared to be insensitive to a source availability manipulation. However,…
Descriptors: Individual Differences, Internet, Computer Mediated Communication, Immunization Programs
Living through Their First Pandemic: Mississippi Young Adults Reveal COVID-19 Concerns and Challenges
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Traci Hayes; Wendy White; Kisa K. Harris; Amel Mohammed; Frances Henderson; Caroline E. Compretta – Journal of American College Health, 2024
Objective: The study aimed to understand the perceptions, knowledge, information sources, and coping skills pertaining to COVID-19 among two groups of African American young adults. Participants: African American ages 18-29 years enrolled in Historically Black Colleges and Universities and non-college enrolled young adults in Mississippi were the…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Barriers, Student Attitudes