Bibliographic citations
Espinoza, F., Torres, G. (2022). ¿Información o desinformación? Describiendo la calidad de información disponible en Facebook durante la pandemia de COVID-19 [Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia]. https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12866/11428
Espinoza, F., Torres, G. ¿Información o desinformación? Describiendo la calidad de información disponible en Facebook durante la pandemia de COVID-19 []. PE: Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia; 2022. https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12866/11428
@misc{renati/910207,
title = "¿Información o desinformación? Describiendo la calidad de información disponible en Facebook durante la pandemia de COVID-19",
author = "Torres Roldán, Gabriel Felipe",
publisher = "Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia",
year = "2022"
}
Background Misinformation could be a problem for the control of COVID-19 pandemic, especially in a social network as popular as Facebook. Objective: To describe the characteristics and quality of the information found in Facebook posts on the prevention and treatment of COVID-19. Methods: This is a descriptive cross-sectional study that included Facebook posts in Spanish language about prevention and treatment of COVID-19 between March 2020 and July 2021. Quality of publications was classified as “information” or “misinformation”, and ideas as “correct” or “incorrect”. The updated WHO, PAHO and CDC guidelines were used as reference. Then, quality determinants were explored using the Chi square test. Changes in the quality of information were graphed over the months. Results: 136 publications containing 269 ideas were included. The median of reactions was 652, and 294 for shares. The majority came from journalistic sources (52.20%). Serious tone publications predominated (77.21%). 17.47% were ideas given by doctors. 38.24% of the publications were classified as misinformation and some determinants were: information from a doctor (p <0.001), non-serious tone (p <0.001), mentioning any treatment (compared to prevention) (p <0.001) and the source of information (p = 0.004). Conclusions: Near 40% of Facebook posts were misinformation. The main source was from journalistic accounts and the most reliable source was the government one. Information shared by Physicians was mostly incorrect.
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