Vaccines,
Год журнала:
2024,
Номер
12(7), С. 728 - 728
Опубликована: Июнь 29, 2024
Background:
This
cross-sectional
survey
aimed
to
explore
the
reasons
for
receiving
HPV
vaccination
among
eligible
adults
in
Italy.
Methods:
The
was
conducted
from
July
2023
April
2024
Naples,
Southern
Results:
A
total
of
282
questionnaires
were
collected.
majority
respondents
(73.2%)
aware
that
recommended
and
this
more
likely
women,
healthcare
workers
(HCWs)
or
students
health
sciences,
those
who
had
acquired
information
physicians.
most
frequently
cited
vaccinating
self-protection
infection
(77.6%)
cervical/oral/penile/anal
cancer
(68.9%),
knowing
free
charge
(46.2%),
awareness
severity
disease
(43%),
protect
their
partner
(42.6%),
perception
being
at
risk
(24.2%).
Being
HCWs
believing
could
cause
a
serious
disease,
having
higher
number
oral
intercourse
experiences
last
year
significant
predictors
risk.
Female
Italian
receive
because
it
effective
preventing
cancer.
Conclusions:
Targeted
educational
programs
interventions
should
be
developed
ensure
enhancing
knowledge
fostering
positive
attitudes
toward
vaccination.
Frontiers in Communication,
Год журнала:
2025,
Номер
10
Опубликована: Май 19, 2025
Cognitive
dysfunction,
and
the
resulting
social
behaviours,
contribute
to
major
problems,
ranging
from
polarisation
spread
of
conspiracy
theories.
Most
previous
studies
have
explored
these
problems
at
a
specific
scale:
individual,
group,
or
societal.
This
study
develops
synthesis
that
links
models
cognitive
failures
three
scales.
First,
limits
innate
drives
can
lead
dysfunctional
cognition
in
individuals.
Second,
biases
effects
further
influence
group
behaviour.
Third,
networks
cause
cascading
increase
intensity
scale
Advances
communications
information
technology,
especially
Internet
AI,
exacerbated
established
by
accelerating
false
beliefs
interpretations
on
an
unprecedented
scale,
become
enabler
for
emergent
hitherto
only
seen
smaller
scale.
Finally,
this
explores
mechanisms
used
manipulate
people's
exploiting
notably
gaslighting,
propaganda,
fake
news,
promotion
Abstract
Measuring
the
impact
of
online
misinformation
is
challenging.
Traditional
measures,
such
as
user
views
or
shares
on
social
media,
are
incomplete
because
not
everyone
who
exposed
to
equally
likely
believe
it.
To
address
this
issue,
we
developed
a
method
that
combines
survey
data
with
observational
Twitter
probabilistically
estimate
number
users
both
and
specific
news
story.
As
proof
concept,
applied
139
viral
articles
find
although
false
reaches
an
audience
diverse
political
views,
receptive
believing
tend
have
more
extreme
ideologies.
These
also
encounter
earlier
than
those
unlikely
This
mismatch
between
overall
exposure
underscores
limitation
relying
solely
interaction
measure
misinformation,
well
challenge
implementing
effective
interventions.
demonstrate
how
our
approach
can
challenge,
then
conducted
data-driven
simulations
common
interventions
used
by
media
platforms.
We
these
only
modestly
at
reducing
among
their
effectiveness
quickly
diminishes
unless
implemented
soon
after
misinformation’s
initial
spread.
Our
paper
provides
precise
focusing
it,
offering
insights
for
mitigation
strategies
media.
Scientific Reports,
Год журнала:
2024,
Номер
14(1)
Опубликована: Май 20, 2024
Nudge-based
misinformation
interventions
are
presented
as
cheap
and
effective
ways
to
reduce
the
spread
of
online.
However,
despite
online
information
environments
typically
containing
relatively
low
volumes
misinformation,
most
studies
testing
effectiveness
nudge
present
equal
proportions
true
false
information.
As
nudges
can
be
highly
context-dependent,
it
is
imperative
validate
nudge-based
in
with
more
realistic
misinformation.
The
current
study
(N
=
1387)
assessed
a
combined
accuracy
social-norm
simulated
social-media
varying
(50%,
20%,
12.5%)
relative
non-news-based
(i.e.,
"social")
intervention
was
at
improving
sharing
discernment
conditions
lower
providing
ecologically
valid
support
for
use
counter
propagation
on
social
media.
Vaccines,
Год журнала:
2024,
Номер
12(7), С. 728 - 728
Опубликована: Июнь 29, 2024
Background:
This
cross-sectional
survey
aimed
to
explore
the
reasons
for
receiving
HPV
vaccination
among
eligible
adults
in
Italy.
Methods:
The
was
conducted
from
July
2023
April
2024
Naples,
Southern
Results:
A
total
of
282
questionnaires
were
collected.
majority
respondents
(73.2%)
aware
that
recommended
and
this
more
likely
women,
healthcare
workers
(HCWs)
or
students
health
sciences,
those
who
had
acquired
information
physicians.
most
frequently
cited
vaccinating
self-protection
infection
(77.6%)
cervical/oral/penile/anal
cancer
(68.9%),
knowing
free
charge
(46.2%),
awareness
severity
disease
(43%),
protect
their
partner
(42.6%),
perception
being
at
risk
(24.2%).
Being
HCWs
believing
could
cause
a
serious
disease,
having
higher
number
oral
intercourse
experiences
last
year
significant
predictors
risk.
Female
Italian
receive
because
it
effective
preventing
cancer.
Conclusions:
Targeted
educational
programs
interventions
should
be
developed
ensure
enhancing
knowledge
fostering
positive
attitudes
toward
vaccination.
