Nagata Jason M, Ganson Kyle T, Liu Jingyi, Patel Khushi P, Tai Josephine C, Murray Stuart B, Bibbins-Domingo Kirsten
Department of Pediatrics, University of California, San Francisco, 550 16 Street, 4 Floor, Box 0110, San Francisco, CA 94158, USA.
Factor-Inwentash Faculty of Social Work, University of Toronto, 246 Bloor St W, Toronto, ON M5S 1V4, Canada.
Prev Med Rep. 2022 Jul 9;28:101900. doi: 10.1016/j.pmedr.2022.101900. eCollection 2022 Aug.
Adolescents are particularly vulnerable to health misinformation and are at risk for suboptimal adherence to protective health behaviors in the COVID-19 pandemic. Guided by factors consistent with the theories of planned behavior and rumor transmission, this study sought to analyze the impact of multiple information sources, including social media, television media, internet and parental counseling, on masking behaviors in adolescents. Responses from the December 2020 COVID-19 survey, representing 4,106 U.S. adolescents ages 12-14 from the Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development Study (ABCD) were analyzed. The majority of parents (61.1%) reported counseling their children on the importance of wearing masks all the time in the past week. A minority of adolescents reported more than one hour of daily exposure to COVID-19 related information on social media (9.1%), the internet (4.3%) and television (10.2%). In unadjusted and adjusted models, greater frequency of parental counseling and exposure to COVID-19 television or social media were associated with 'always masking' behaviors. Our findings provide support for the importance of parent counseling and suggest that socialmedia and television may overall support rather than dissuade protective COVID-19 health behaviors in adolescents.
青少年特别容易受到健康错误信息的影响，在新冠疫情期间，他们有不能很好坚持保护性健康行为的风险。在与计划行为理论和谣言传播理论一致的因素指导下，本研究旨在分析包括社交媒体、电视媒体、互联网和家长咨询在内的多种信息来源对青少年戴口罩行为的影响。对2020年12月新冠调查的回复进行了分析，这些回复来自青少年大脑认知发展研究（ABCD）中4106名12至14岁的美国青少年。大多数家长（61.1%）报告称，在过去一周里，他们向孩子咨询了一直戴口罩的重要性。少数青少年报告说，他们每天在社交媒体（9.1%）、互联网（4.3%）和电视（10.2%）上接触与新冠相关信息的时间超过一小时。在未调整和调整后的模型中，家长咨询的频率越高，以及接触新冠相关电视或社交媒体的频率越高，与“总是戴口罩”行为相关。我们的研究结果支持了家长咨询的重要性，并表明社交媒体和电视总体上可能支持而非劝阻青少年采取保护性的新冠健康行为。
