Social media usage and health promoting lifestyle in profile related socio-demographic factors in Turkey

Güleç, Dilek; İşikhan, Selen Yilmaz; Orhaner, Emine

doi:10.15171/hpp.2020.13

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“…The survey was conducted over the Internet, which may have inherent bias towards a more educated population. Data in this survey have been collected using online social networks, which often excludes citizens in the category of age 65 and older [ 42 ]. Only 0.6% of participants were >65 years.…”

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COVID-19 vaccine acceptance and rejection in an adult population in Bosnia and Herzegovina

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Background Bosnia and Herzegovina is among ten countries in the world with the highest mortality rate due to COVID-19. Lack of lockdown, open borders, high mortality rate, no vaccination plan, and strong domestic anti-vaccination movement present serious COVID-19 concerns in Bosnia and Herzegovina. In such circumstances, we set out to study 1) the willingness of general public to receive the vaccine, 2) factors that affect vaccine rejection, and 3) motivation for vaccine acceptance. Methods A cross-sectional study was conducted among 10471 adults in Bosnia and Herzegovina to assess the acceptance or rejection of participants toward COVID-19 vaccination. Using a logistic regression model, we examined the associations of sociodemographic characteristics with vaccine rejection, reasons for vaccine hesitancy, preferred vaccine manufacturer, and information sources. Results Surprisingly, only 25.7% of respondents indicated they would like to get a COVID-19 vaccine, while 74.3% of respondents were either hesitant or completely rejected vaccination. The vaccine acceptance increased with increasing age, education, and income level. Major motivation of pro-vaccination behavior was intention to achieve collective immunity (30.1%), while the leading incentive for vaccine refusal was deficiency of clinical data (30.2%). The Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine is shown to be eightfold more preferred vaccine compared to the other manufacturers. For the first time in Bosnia, vaccine acceptance among health care professionals has been reported, where only 39.4% of healthcare professionals expressed willingness to get vaccinated. Conclusion With the high share of the population unwilling to vaccinate, governmental impotence in securing the vaccines supplies, combined with the lack of any lockdown measures suggests that Bosnia and Herzegovina is unlikely to put COVID-19 pandemic under control in near future.

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COVID-19 vaccine acceptance and rejection in an adult population in Bosnia and Herzegovina

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“…In countries with emerging economies and technological advancements, like Mauritius, social media has become an integral part of contemporary youth culture. In such a context, social media sites provide young people with new opportunities as well as threats towards modifying health behaviours (Güleç et al, 2020;Holmberg et al, 2016). In this sense, future studies need to focus more attention on such issues and factors.…”

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Youth health, gender, and social media: Mauritius as a glocal place

Rambaree

Mousavi

Magnusson

et al. 2020

Cogent Social Sciences

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The aim of this study was to investigate associations between social media use, self-reported health, dietary behaviours, and gender among young people living in Mauritius. For this cross-sectional study, questionnaires were distributed to a sample of 492 individuals (of which 64% were females) aged 14-29 year. A linear regression analysis investigating the associations between health problems and social media use, a number of dietary choices and behaviours, and gender was found to explain 49.9% of the variance in the prevalence of health problems, with social media use making the largest unique contribution (beta = 0.48). A MANOVA analysis found that there were significant gender differences in social media use, unhealthy food consumption, and self-reported health problems. This article concludes that the clash between gender, fast technological developments, and the influx of unhealthy foods in a glocal place has effects on young people through social media, and need to be monitored closely by youth and health policy-makers and researchers.

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“…Most of the data used in this survey have been collected using online social networks, which often excludes citizens in the category of age 65 and older 19 . Since they represent a high-risk group and are more likely to accept vaccination, the acceptance rate may be larger than presented 4,5 .…”

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Lack of lockdown, open borders, and no vaccination in sight: is Bosnia and Herzegovina a control group?

Fojnica

Osmanovic

Duzic

et al. 2021

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Bosnia and Herzegovina is among ten countries in the world with the highest mortality rate due to COVID-19 infection. Lack of lockdown, open borders, high mortality rate, no herd immunity, no vaccination plan, and strong domestic anti-vaccination movement present serious COVID-19 concerns in Bosnia and Herzegovina. In such circumstances, we set out to study if the population is willing to receive the vaccine. A cross-sectional study was conducted among 10,471 adults in Bosnia and Herzegovina to assess the attitude of participants toward COVID-19 vaccination. Using a logistic regression model, we assessed the associations of sociodemographic characteristics with vaccine rejection, reasons for vaccine hesitancy, preferred vaccine manufacturer, and information sources. Surprisingly, only 25.7% of respondents indicated they would like to get a COVID-19 vaccine, while 74.3% of respondents were either hesitant or completely rejected vaccination. The vaccine acceptance increased with increasing age, education, and income level. Major motivation of pro-vaccination behaviour was intention to achieve collective immunity (30.1%), while the leading incentive for vaccine refusal was deficiency of clinical data (30.2%). The Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine is shown to be eightfold more preferred vaccine compared to the other manufacturers. For the first time, vaccine acceptance among health care professionals has been reported, where only 39.4% of healthcare professionals expressed willingness to get vaccinated. With the high share of the population unwilling to vaccinate, governmental impotence in securing the vaccines supplies, combined with the lack of any lockdown measures suggests that Bosnia and Herzegovina is unlikely to put COVID-19 pandemic under control in near future.

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Social media usage and health promoting lifestyle in profile related socio-demographic factors in Turkey

Cited by 3 publications

References 24 publications

COVID-19 vaccine acceptance and rejection in an adult population in Bosnia and Herzegovina

COVID-19 vaccine acceptance and rejection in an adult population in Bosnia and Herzegovina

Youth health, gender, and social media: Mauritius as a glocal place

Lack of lockdown, open borders, and no vaccination in sight: is Bosnia and Herzegovina a control group?

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