“I Don’t Just Take Whatever They Hand to Me”: How Women Recently Released from Incarceration Access Internet Health Information

Schuster, Bernard; Britton, Hannah E.; Seo, Hyunjin; Altschwager, Darcey; Booton, Eli; Ault, Marilyn; Wickliffe, Joi; Ramaswamy, Megha

doi:10.1080/08974454.2022.2040692

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“…Trust is often determined by the intersections of personal and social identities such as race, ethnicity, socioeconomic status, and region, to name a few [57][58][59]. Individuals involved in the criminal legal system often turn to supplemental or nontraditional sources, such as peer navigators, for health information because of general distrust in and negative experiences with the government and medical establishment [60,61]. A recent study of CLI women found that Black women chose TV as their most trusted source of information regarding COVID-19, while White women chose government or social service agencies as their most trusted sources [62].…”

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Endorsement of COVID-19 misinformation among criminal legal involved individuals in the United States: Prevalence and relationship with information sources

Zhao,

Hingle,

Shaw

et al. 2024

PLoS ONE

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Criminal legal system involvement (CLI) is a critical social determinant of health that lies at the intersection of multiple sources of health disparities. The COVID-19 pandemic exacerbates many of these disparities, and specific vulnerabilities faced by the CLI population. This study investigated the prevalence of COVID-19-related misinformation, as well as its relationship with COVID-19 information sources used among Americans experiencing CLI. A nationally representative sample of American adults aged 18+ (N = 1,161), including a subsample of CLI individuals (n = 168), were surveyed in February-March 2021. On a 10-item test, CLI participants endorsed a greater number of misinformation statements (M = 1.88 vs. 1.27) than non-CLI participants, p < .001. CLI participants reported less use of government and scientific sources (p = .017) and less use of personal sources (p = .003) for COVID-19 information than non-CLI participants. Poisson models showed that use of government and scientific sources was negatively associated with misinformation endorsement for non-CLI participants (IRR = .841, p < .001), but not for CLI participants (IRR = .957, p = .619). These findings suggest that building and leveraging trust in important information sources are critical to the containment and mitigation of COVID-19-related misinformation in the CLI population.

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