The Peru Approach against the COVID-19 Infodemic: Insights and Strategies

Álvarez-Risco, Aldo; Mejía, Christian R.; Delgado-Zegarra, Jaime; Del-Aguila-Arcentales, Shyla; Arce‐Esquivel, Arturo A.; Valladares-Garrido, Mario J.; Portal, Mauricio Rosas del; Villegas, León; Curioso, Walter H.; Sekar, Mahendran; Yáñez, Jaime A.

doi:10.4269/ajtmh.20-0536

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“…Peru has enabled the most restrictive measures in its national public health history to control the current COVID-19 outbreak. 1 – 4 The first patient with COVID-19 in Peru was detected in Lima on March 5, 2020. 5 Five days after, classes in schools were suspended nationwide, and on March 12, all classes at universities were suspended nationally.…”

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Anxiety, Distress, and Turnover Intention of Healthcare Workers in Peru by Their Distance to the Epicenter during the COVID-19 Crisis

Yáñez

Jahanshahi

Álvarez-Risco

et al. 2020

The American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

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We conducted a cross-sectional survey to assess the anxiety, distress, and turnover intention (likelihood to leave their current job) of healthcare workers in Peru during the COVID-19 pandemic. Our results reported that 21.7% healthcare workers in Peru experienced severe anxiety, whereas 26.1% of them experienced severe mental distress. A higher level of education related with a lower level of anxiety. Younger workers had a higher level of turnover intention than their older colleagues did. Healthcare workers in the private sector had a higher turnover intention than those in the public sector. Most importantly, people who were geographically far from Lima, the epicenter in Peru, during the outbreak experienced less anxiety and mental distress, corroborating the ripple effect and disconfirming the typhoon eye theory. However, the direction of these relationships can change depending on the type of institutions (public versus private) and the type of employees' contract (full time versus part time). Our research helps provide insights for clinical professionals in identifying the vulnerable groups to mental disorders in Peru. This is the first study to assess anxiety, mental distress, and turnover intention in healthcare workers in Peru during the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Anxiety, Distress, and Turnover Intention of Healthcare Workers in Peru by Their Distance to the Epicenter during the COVID-19 Crisis

Yáñez

Jahanshahi

Álvarez-Risco

et al. 2020

The American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

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“…Accordingly, many strategies have been proposed and implemented, worldwide and in Peru, in an attempt to contain this pandemic, some of them more successful than others [7] , [8] , [9] . To date, considerable information has been published on the impact of the COVID-19 outbreak, including the orthopedic field, in Asia, North America and Europe [10] , [11] , [12] , [13] , [14] , [15] , [16] .…”

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How COVID-19 has affected emergent visits to a Latin-American trauma department: Experience at a Peruvian national trauma referral center

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Gibaja

Vallejos

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Highlights As in other countries Health problems such as osteoporotic hip fractures may in fact remain stable during the implementation of stringent lock-down measures for the population. Like osteoporotic hip fractures, diabetic foot ulcers are usually manifested in elderly, non-working people, whose risk of injury thereby should not have been impacted by staying home from work. In our study, the four most common indications for our surgery service admission during the State of Emergency declaration were osteoporotic hip fracture, ankle fracture, diabetic foot and forearm fracture.

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“…Another interesting finding is that the more people consume news, the more they become capable to detect fake news. However, this study has two limitations: it only focuses on the United States, a country with advanced communication technology and media system, and its findings are contradictory (especially the second one) to other studies (Alvarez-Risco et al, 2020;Cinelli et al, 2020;Laato et al, 2020;Pennycook et al, 2020;Pulido Rodríguez et al, 2020;Rovetta & Bhagavathula, 2020) that find COVID-19 as an infodemic-maker. Also, both research trends do not give adequate attention and importance only to social media fake news.…”

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COVID-19-related Fake News in Social Media

Al-Zaman

2020

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This study analyzes N=125 prominent fake news related to the COVID-19 pandemic spread in social media from 29 January to 11 April 2020. The five parameters of the analysis are themes, content types, sources, coverage, and intentions. First, the six major themes of fake news are health, religiopolitical, political, crime, entertainment, religious, and miscellaneous. Health-related fake news (67.2%) dominates the others. Second, the seven types of fake news contents have four main types: text, photo, audio and video, and three combined types: text & photo; text & video; and text & photo & video. More fake news takes the forms of text & video (47.2%), while the main types of content are less popular. Third, the two main sources of fake news are online media and mainstream media, where online-produced fake news (94.4%) prevails. Fourth, the main two types of coverages are international and national, and more fake news has an international connection (54.4%). Fifth, the intention of fake news has three types: positive, negative, and unknown. Most of the COVID-19-related fake news is negative (63.2%). Although fake news cases are unevenly distributed and repeatedly fluctuates during the period, a slow decrease of daily cases is noticed toward the end.

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The Peru Approach against the COVID-19 Infodemic: Insights and Strategies

Cited by 160 publications

References 17 publications

Anxiety, Distress, and Turnover Intention of Healthcare Workers in Peru by Their Distance to the Epicenter during the COVID-19 Crisis

Anxiety, Distress, and Turnover Intention of Healthcare Workers in Peru by Their Distance to the Epicenter during the COVID-19 Crisis

How COVID-19 has affected emergent visits to a Latin-American trauma department: Experience at a Peruvian national trauma referral center

COVID-19-related Fake News in Social Media

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