Cancer fatalism, social media informational awareness, and education.
Cancer Causes Control
; 2024 Jun 29.
Article
in En
| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-38951386
ABSTRACT
OBJECTIVE:
Understand if cancer fatalism among adult social media users in the United States is linked to social media informational awareness and if the relationship varies by education level.METHODS:
Cross-sectional data from the 2022 Health Information National Trends Survey (n = 3,948) were analyzed using multivariable linear probability models. The study population was defined as social media users active within the past year. The outcome variable was cancer fatalism and the predictor variables were social media informational awareness and education level.RESULTS:
Participants with low social media informational awareness were 9% (95% CI = 3, 15), 6% (95% CI = 1, 11), and 21% (95% CI = 14, 27) percentage points more likely to agree that it seems like everything causes cancer, you cannot lower your chances of getting cancer, and there are too many cancer prevention recommendations to follow, respectively. Participants with a college degree or higher level of education and who reported high social media informational awareness were the least likely to agree that everything causes cancer (60%; 95% CI = 54, 66), you cannot lower your chances of getting cancer (14%; 95% CI = 10, 19), and there are too many cancer prevention recommendations to follow (52%; 95% CI = 46, 59).CONCLUSION:
Social media informational awareness was associated with lower levels of cancer fatalism among adult social media users. College graduates with high social media informational awareness were the least likely to report cancer fatalism.
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01-internacional
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MEDLINE
Language:
En
Journal:
Cancer Causes Control
Journal subject:
EPIDEMIOLOGIA
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NEOPLASIAS
Year:
2024
Document type:
Article
Affiliation country:
United States
Country of publication:
Netherlands