Skip to main content

Table 2 Definitions and examples of primary themes and emergent subthemes

From: Perceptions of adult Arkansans regarding trusted sources of information about the COVID-19 pandemic

Theme

Subtheme

Trusted sources of information

• Health care

- Academic medicine and health sciences researchers

- Local health care providers

 Health care provider participants know personally

 Local health care providers working with COVID-19 patients

- Public health organizations and leaders

 Federal

 State

• News media

- Local

- National

Distrust or lack of trust in sources of information

• Do not trust any sources about COVID-19

• Lack of trust

- In governmental sources of information

- In media