Alnasser Ali Hassan A, Al-Tawfiq Jaffar A, Al Kalif Mohammed Sheker H, Alobaysi Azzam Mohammed A, Al Mubarak Murtada Hussain M, Alturki Hamad Nasser H, Alharbi Abdulsalam Awadh A, Albahrani Rahmah Sahib S, Alatef Sultan Salem Ali S, AlHamad Anwar Ramadan N
Department of Laboratory, Dhahran Eye Specialist Hospital, Ministry of Health, Dhahran, Saudi Arabia.
Infectious Disease Unit, Specialty Internal Medicine, Johns Hopkins Aramco Healthcare, Dhahran, Saudi Arabia; Department of Medicine, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN, USA: Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA.
Infez Med. 2020 Dec 1;28(4):545-550.
In late December 2019, the COVID-19 pandemic started to spread from Hubei province in China. Currently there are many affected countries worldwide, including Saudi Arabia. This study aimed to assess the use of social media as a source for COVID-19 awareness in Saudi Arabia. An online survey was conducted between 9 and 13 May 2020 and a total of 3,204 subjects participated in the survey. We used snowball sampling techniques through an online structured questionnaire. The data were cleaned, coded and analysed using the Statistical Package for the Social Sciences SPSS version 25.0. A chi-square test was used to find the associations between variables. Of all participants, 75.4% had a high level of awareness of the COVID-19 pandemic. Saudi participants above 18 years old and medical practitioners showed a high level of awareness. All participants from all regions of Saudi Arabia showed a high level of awareness except for those from the northern region. The most common source of information was the official government social media, and 44.1% reported the use of Twitter. Our findings show that social media have a positive impact on the circulation of information about the COVID-19 pandemic in Saudi Arabia.
2019年12月下旬，新型冠状病毒肺炎疫情开始在中国湖北省蔓延。目前全球有许多国家受到影响，包括沙特阿拉伯。本研究旨在评估社交媒体作为沙特阿拉伯新型冠状病毒肺炎认知信息来源的使用情况。2020年5月9日至13日进行了一项在线调查，共有3204名受试者参与了该调查。我们通过在线结构化问卷采用滚雪球抽样技术。使用社会科学统计软件包SPSS 25.0对数据进行清理、编码和分析。采用卡方检验来发现变量之间的关联。在所有参与者中，75.4%对新型冠状病毒肺炎疫情有较高的认知水平。18岁以上的沙特参与者和医务人员表现出较高的认知水平。除北部地区的参与者外，沙特阿拉伯所有地区的参与者都表现出较高的认知水平。最常见的信息来源是政府官方社交媒体，44.1%的人报告使用推特。我们的研究结果表明，社交媒体对沙特阿拉伯新型冠状病毒肺炎疫情信息的传播有积极影响。
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