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Gossip, Rumors, and the COVID-19 Crisis
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n March 11, 2020, the World Health Organization announced that the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) is a pandemic crisis.Besides the disease itself, the fear from COVID-19 has a high psychological burden (eg, psychological distress, anxiety, and depression) on patients and their families, medical staff, health care workers, and the general population. 1 These days, we are faced with a lot of information regarding COVID-19 from different sources.However, fake information, gossip, and rumors seem to be more common than factual information about this disease.
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In the context of COVID-19, various pandemic-related stressors have caused teenagers to display short-term anxiety symptoms, which can have long-term damage to their quality of life.
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From The Online Strength-Informed Acceptance and Commitment Therapy Among COVID-19-Affected Adolescents. (2022) · cites this paper as Abdoli, 2020
The paper’s main text (page not provided) says fear of COVID-19 carries a psychological burden that includes anxiety, and reports an association between social-media exposure and anxiety during the outbreak. It does not specifically discuss teenagers, short-term symptoms, or long-term damage to quality of life; it also does not establish that the stressors caused the anxiety. (LLM, conf=0.86)
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Metadata
- Authors
- Abdoli, A.
- Affiliations
- Jahrom University of Medical Sciences (IR)
- Corresponding author
- Abdoli, Amir
- ORCID
- Abdoli, Amir
- Venue
- Disaster Medicine and Public Health Preparedness
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press (CUP)
- Published
- 2020-07-27
- Volume
- 14
- Issue
- 4
- Pages
- e29-e30
- ISSN
- 1935-7893 (ISSN-L)
- 1938-744X
- PMC
- PMC7443554
- OpenAlex
- W3045695316
- Cited by
- 22
- References
- 4
- Citations by year
- 2025: 1 · 2024: 2 · 2023: 5 · 2022: 6 · 2021: 5 · 2020: 3
- FWCI
- 6.35
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- hybrid
- doi.org
- Locations
- Disaster Medicine and Public Health Preparedness (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- PubMed Central (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Misinformation and Its Impacts
- Social Sciences › Communication › Communication and COVID-19 Impact
- Social Sciences › Communication › Public Relations and Crisis Communication
- Keywords
- COVID-19 pandemic, gossip, rumors, misinformation, fake news, psychological distress, anxiety, depression, pandemic, information sources
- MeSH terms
- COVID-19, Humans, World Health Organization, Information Dissemination, Pandemics, Social Media
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