Role of electronic media in mitigating the psychological impacts of novel coronavirus (COVID-19)

Abstract

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Mental health research in the lower-middle-income countries of Africa and Asia during the COVID-19 pandemic: A scoping review

“…Fear of infection is another significant contributor to suicide here. The double-edged role of electronic media, especially in Pakistan, was highlighted by Bilal, Latif, Bashir, Komal, and Tan, (2020)) . They observed that the negative handling of the pandemic coverage led to panic and stress-related psychiatric disorders.…”

“…Given that electronic media is the most common source of information, media formats should boost morale among people by providing help and guidance. More air-time should be dedicated to positive televised campaigns ( Bilal et al, 2020 ), despite keeping people aware of the actual death toll and possible health issues if infected. It has been suggested that applying the evidence-based Health Belief Model (HBM) to the pandemic situation can help in reducing behaviors that implicate fear and anxiety.…”

Dynamical analysis of a stochastic rumor-spreading model with Holling II functional response function and time delay

“…It means that the rumor will vanish. Conversely, if R 0 > 1, the model (1) has a unique rumor-local equilibrium P * = (S * , I * , R * ), where I * = e -μτ (1-p)bβμ-pbημ-μ 3 e -μτ (1-p)bβη+(pbη+μ 2 )(β+μα) and it has global asymptotic stability in the invariant set under certain conditions, which means the rumor will propagate and be popular.…”

“…, the model (3) has a unique global solution (S(t), I(t), R(t)) for t ≥ -τ and the solution will remain in R 3 + with probability one, in other words, (S(t), I(t), R(t)) ∈ R 3 + for all t ≥ -τ almost surely (a.s.).…”

“…To some extent, these rumors may cause individual panic, even lead to tremendous social unrest. Recently, during the outbreak of COVID-19, various negative rumors spread widely, which undoubtedly destroyed the psychosocial environment and threatened the national security [1][2][3][4][5][6]. Therefore, there is great significance of studying the mechanism of rumor spreading to grasp its dynamical properties.…”