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Table 9 Proportions of participants using different information sources by corona-specific HL

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

 

% Inhabitants of German-speaking Switzerland

 

Information sourcesa

corona-specific HL

p-value

inadequate

problematic

sufficient

Television

63%

73%

74%

< 0.001

Internet

58%

66%

67%

0.004

Radio

35%

40%

40%

0.178

Health authorities

33%

40%

46%

< 0.001

Family, friends, acquaintances

32%

34%

35%

0.504

Newspaper - Offline

31%

34%

36%

0.112

Social media

26%

25%

26%

0.712

News App

23%

24%

28%

0.022

Health professionals

20%

24%

28%

0.004

Info-Hotline

4%

5%

5%

0.521

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