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Variations in Unmet Health Care Needs by Perceptions of Social Media Health Mis- and Disinformation, Frequency of Social Media Use, Medical Trust, and Medical Care Discrimination: Cross-Sectional Study

Variations in Unmet Health Care Needs by Perceptions of Social Media Health Mis- and Disinformation, Frequency of Social Media Use, Medical Trust, and Medical Care Discrimination: Cross-Sectional Study

Most participants (n=2655, 67%) reported that their health care needs were met; a third of the participants (n=1309, 33%) reported unmet need for health care. More than a third of participants (n=1397, 36%) perceived substantial social media health mis- and disinformation. Most participants (n=2803, 73%) used social media daily. Low trust in the health care system was reported by 17% (n=596) of the participants, and 8% (n=348) reported experiencing racial or ethnic discrimination when seeking health care.

Jim P Stimpson, Sungchul Park, Fernando A Wilson, Alexander N Ortega

JMIR Public Health Surveill 2024;10:e56881

Variation in Trust in Cancer Information Sources by Perceptions of Social Media Health Mis- and Disinformation and by Race and Ethnicity Among Adults in the United States: Cross-Sectional Study

Variation in Trust in Cancer Information Sources by Perceptions of Social Media Health Mis- and Disinformation and by Race and Ethnicity Among Adults in the United States: Cross-Sectional Study

Therefore, we conducted a sensitivity analysis in which we excluded 257 adults who had not visited a social media site in the past year or reported that they did not use social media (n=3880 were included). After excluding these participants, the results were similar, as shown in Multimedia Appendix 1, Table S1.

Jim P Stimpson, Sungchul Park, Sandi L Pruitt, Alexander N Ortega

JMIR Cancer 2024;10:e54162

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