Ubah Chinenye Ifeoma, Odikpo Linda, Ndubuisi-Okoroezi Lovelyn, Mbadugha Chisom, Ikechukwu-Okoroezi Jennifer
Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust, Essex, UK.
Department of Nursing Sciences, Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka, Nigeria.
J Public Health Afr. 2022 Jul 27;13(2):2011. doi: 10.4081/jphia.2022.2011. eCollection 2022 Jul 26.
Information on COVID-19 has evolved and blended with fake news, which the public, unfortunately, has to make an individual decision on how to use. As a result, access to authentic and adequate health information on COVID-19 is crucial for curbing the ongoing pandemic. The study was aimed at identifying sources of information on COVID-19 commonly used by adult Nigerian residents; determine the adequacy of information received; determine the accessibility of information on COVID-19 among Nigerians, and explore the relationship between location and access to information. An adapted version of the World Health Organization's (WHO) COVID-19 behavioral insight questionnaire was used to collect data from 1,039 adult residents in Nigeria across the geopolitical zones through an online survey. Analysis was done using SPSS version 24. Logistic regression was used to examine if location predicts access to information. Social media was identified as the major source of information among Nigerians. The top three accessible sources included social media 807(77.7%), television 546 (52.6%), and WHO websites 340 (32.7%). It was also found that they perceived information received on COVID-19 as adequate. The logistic regression model of the location did not predict access to COVID-19 information (p<0.05; 95% CI). Health authorities like the WHO, the ministry of health, CDC should optimize social media for better health information coverage.
关于新冠病毒的信息不断演变，并与假新闻交织在一起，不幸的是，公众必须自行决定如何利用这些信息。因此，获取关于新冠病毒的真实、充分的健康信息对于遏制当前的疫情至关重要。该研究旨在确定尼日利亚成年居民常用的新冠病毒信息来源；确定所获信息的充分性；确定尼日利亚人获取新冠病毒信息的难易程度，并探讨地理位置与信息获取之间的关系。通过在线调查，使用世界卫生组织（WHO）新冠病毒行为洞察问卷的改编版，从尼日利亚各地理政治区域的1039名成年居民中收集数据。使用SPSS 24版进行分析。采用逻辑回归分析来检验地理位置是否能预测信息获取情况。社交媒体被确定为尼日利亚人获取信息的主要来源。最容易获取信息的前三个来源包括社交媒体807人（77.7%）、电视546人（52.6%）和世卫组织网站340人（32.7%）。研究还发现，他们认为所获得的关于新冠病毒的信息是充分的。地理位置的逻辑回归模型无法预测新冠病毒信息的获取情况（p<0.05；95%置信区间）。世卫组织、卫生部、美国疾病控制与预防中心等卫生当局应优化社交媒体，以实现更好的健康信息覆盖。
