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Conspiracy Beliefs Are Associated with Lower Knowledge and Higher Anxiety Levels Regarding COVID-19 among Students at the University of Jordan

International journal of environmental research and public health, 2020-07, Vol.17 (14), p.4915 [Peer Reviewed Journal]

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  • Title:
    Conspiracy Beliefs Are Associated with Lower Knowledge and Higher Anxiety Levels Regarding COVID-19 among Students at the University of Jordan
  • Author: Sallam, Malik ; Dababseh, Deema ; Yaseen, Alaa’ ; Al-Haidar, Ayat ; Ababneh, Nidaa A. ; Bakri, Faris G. ; Mahafzah, Azmi
  • Subjects: Antibiotics ; Anxieties ; Anxiety ; Colleges & universities ; Coronaviruses ; COVID-19 ; Females ; Folkhälsovetenskap, global hälsa, socialmedicin och epidemiologi ; Health Sciences ; Hälsovetenskap ; Income ; Levels ; Medical and Health Sciences ; Medicin och hälsovetenskap ; Pandemics ; Polls & surveys ; Population studies ; Public Health, Global Health, Social Medicine and Epidemiology ; Schools ; Social networks ; Students ; Vaccines ; Viral diseases ; Viruses
  • Is Part Of: International journal of environmental research and public health, 2020-07, Vol.17 (14), p.4915
  • Description: The world has been afflicted heavily by the burden of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) that overwhelmed health care systems and caused severe economic and educational deficits, in addition to anxiety among the public. The main aim of this study was to evaluate the mutual effects of belief that the pandemic was the result of a conspiracy on knowledge and anxiety levels among students at the University of Jordan (UJ). An electronic-based survey was conducted between 29 March, 2020 and 31 March, 2020. The targeted population involved all undergraduate and postgraduate students from the health, scientific and humanities schools at UJ. Survey sections included 26 items on: socio-demographic information, knowledge and sources of information about the disease, attitude towards the false notion that COVID-19 stemmed from a conspiracy and items to assess the anxiety level among students during the quarantine period. The total number of participants was 1540 students. The mean age of study participants was 22 years and females predominated the study population (n = 1145, 74.4%). The majority of participants perceived the disease as moderately dangerous (n = 1079, 70.1%). Males, Jordanians and participants with lower income were more inclined to feel that COVID-19 is very dangerous. A lower level of knowledge and a higher level of anxiety about COVID-19 were associated with the belief that the disease is part of a conspiracy. Females and participants with lower income were more likely to believe that the disease is related to conspiracy. Belief in conspiracy regarding the origin of COVID-19 was associated with misinformation about the availability of a vaccine and the therapeutic use of antibiotics for COVID-19 treatment. The Ministry of Health in Jordan was the most common source of information about COVID-19 reported by the participants (n = 1018). The false belief that COVID-19 was the result of a global conspiracy could be the consequence of a lower level of knowledge about the virus and could lead to a higher level of anxiety, which should be considered in the awareness tools of various media platforms about the current pandemic.
  • Publisher: Basel: MDPI AG
  • Language: English
  • Identifier: ISSN: 1660-4601
    ISSN: 1661-7827
    EISSN: 1660-4601
    DOI: 10.3390/ijerph17144915
    PMID: 32650409
  • Source: GFMER Free Medical Journals
    PubMed Central
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    Coronavirus Research Database
    ProQuest Central
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