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Table 8 Proportion of individuals using a certain information source

From: Relation of corona-specific health literacy to use of and trust in information sources during the COVID-19 pandemic

Information sourcesa

% Inhabitants of German-speaking Switzerland

p-value

Spring 2020

Fall 2020

Winter 2020

Television

73%

70%

72%

0.237

Internet

64%

65%

67%

0.494

Health authorities

42%

44%

41%

0.465

Radio

41%

36%

29%

0.066

Newspaper - Offline

35%

35%

33%

0.746

Family, friends, acquaintances

34%

34%

34%

< 0.001

News App

27%

27%

25%

0.462

Health professionals

22%

26%

29%

0.001

Social media

26%

24%

27%

0.177

Info-Hotline

3%

6%

5%

0.034

  1. a. Not all sources of information asked are reported in the table