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Pediatrics
Shannon Y. Adams, Richard Tucker, Beatrice E. Lechner
Summary: This study aimed to identify the use of online health communities (OHCs) by NICU families and assess its impact on parent-provider relationships. Results showed that most NICU parents use OHCs to connect with other families and alleviate distress. Despite risks, the study found that OHC use does not have a harmful effect on the relationship between parents and their child's medical team.
PEDIATRIC RESEARCH
(2022)
Article
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Miaomiao Liu, Jun Bi, Jianxun Yang, Shen Qu, Jinnan Wang
Summary: The study examines how social media information provision reshapes public environmental risk perceptions through a natural experiment conducted in mainland China. The results show that social media information provision enhances self-reported knowledge, reduces trust, and increases fear among the public. This reshaping of risk perception encourages protective behaviors but may also lead to public panic and loss of trust. The findings suggest the importance of considering the periodicity of information provision and maintaining trust in communication strategies to effectively promote behavior changes.
JOURNAL OF CLEANER PRODUCTION
(2021)
Article
Computer Science, Information Systems
Mohammed Bahutair, Athman Bouguettaya
Summary: We propose a novel end-to-end trust management framework for crowdsourced Internet of Things (IoT) services, targeting trust assessment, credibility and accuracy of trust information, and trust information storage. By utilizing the usage patterns of IoT consumers, we provide a trust assessment that is adaptable to their needs, validate the trust-related information collected by consumers and providers, ensure contextual fairness between IoT services and trust information, and propose a blockchain-based storage approach to ensure the integrity and availability of trust information.
ACM TRANSACTIONS ON INTERNET TECHNOLOGY
(2023)
Article
Psychology, Multidisciplinary
Weiqi Guo, Qiyu Bai
Summary: This study examines the influence of health-risk information seeking on media trust and emotions, and how information processing methods moderate this link. The results indicate that seeking COVID-19-related information from the media reduces the belief that media distort reality, leading to decreased fear and increased calmness. The study also finds that heuristic processing and systematic processing have differential effects on the relationship between information seeking and media beliefs.
COMPUTERS IN HUMAN BEHAVIOR
(2023)
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Eric Nost, Gretchen Gehrke, Grace Poudrier, Aaron Lemelin, Marcy Beck, Sara Wylie
Summary: Websites have become the primary means for the US federal government to communicate and shape public understanding, with changes to critical information often legally done without public awareness. During the Trump administration, there was a decrease in discussions on climate change and as much as 20% of the Environmental Protection Agency's website content was removed.
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Communication
Masahiro Yamamoto, Hyerim Jo, Weina Ran
Summary: This study explores the impact of conservative summary site use on trust in mainstream news organizations through the framework of populism communication. Findings suggest that using conservative summary sites is associated with hostile media perceptions, which in turn leads to decreased trust in Japanese news organizations. The relationship between conservative summary site use and hostile media perceptions is not influenced by information processing strategies.
INFORMATION COMMUNICATION & SOCIETY
(2022)
Article
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Yusong Liu, Linyi Zheng, Wenrong Qian
Summary: This study explores the impact of rural residents' access to information on social trust in China based on tracking survey data. It found that the modes of access to information have a significant positive impact on rural residents' social trust, with the Internet having a higher impact coefficient than television. Rural residents use the Internet less frequently to obtain news but are more influenced by it in terms of social trust. Information-disadvantaged groups among rural residents are primarily women, old people, and those with low education.
Article
Computer Science, Hardware & Architecture
Junyu Ren, Tuanfa Qin
Summary: In this paper, a novel trust management approach is proposed to address the lack of trust between IoT edge devices and the network. The approach includes a multidimensional trust evaluation mechanism and a trust fusion scheme. The results show that the proposed approach has high computation efficiency, scalability, resilience, and robustness, and outperforms other methods in reliability. It also effectively defends against various cyber attacks, reflecting its high security.
Article
Psychology, Multidisciplinary
Gong-Li Luo, Hao Zheng, Yan-Lu Guo
Summary: This study examines the influence mechanism of consumers' information capability on their green consumption intention in the digital information era. The findings suggest that information capability has a partially mediating effect on green consumption intention through its impact on green trust. Additionally, media publicity positively moderates the relationship between information capability and green consumption intention.
FRONTIERS IN PSYCHOLOGY
(2023)
Article
Computer Science, Hardware & Architecture
Chavoosh Ghasemi, Hamed Yousefi, Beichuan Zhang
Summary: This article introduces an Internet-scale adaptive video streaming service based on NDN, which has been validated and evaluated through real-world experiments on the NDN testbed, showcasing the feasibility and performance of NDN technology.
Article
Public, Environmental & Occupational Health
Yingnan Zhou, Airong Zhang, Xiaoliu Liu, Xuyun Tan, Ruikai Miao, Yan Zhang, Junxiu Wang
Summary: This study examined the impact of trust in COVID-19 information from social media and official media on public's wellbeing, as well as how the dissemination of information affects wellbeing through perceived safety. The results showed that trust in official media, rapid dissemination and transparency of COVID-19 information, perceived safety, and positive emotional response increased over time, while trust in social media and depressive response decreased over time. Trust in official media played a positive role in improving public's wellbeing, while the impact of trust in social media decreased over time.
FRONTIERS IN PUBLIC HEALTH
(2023)
Article
Public, Environmental & Occupational Health
Kai Chen, Li Zhou, Rui Zhao, Yuedi Tang
Summary: This study evaluated the information quality of hearing aids videos on TikTok and found that the videos mainly focus on features, functionalities, and purchase or fitting advice, with limited information on the disadvantages and complications of hearing aids. Overall, the quality of the videos varies greatly depending on the source, and patients should be cautious when obtaining information on TikTok.
FRONTIERS IN PUBLIC HEALTH
(2022)
Article
Health Care Sciences & Services
Didia B. Cury, Loyna E. Flores Paez, Ana C. Micheletti, Sabrina T. Reis
Summary: This study evaluated the use of the internet in patients with inflammatory bowel disease and found that most patients used it to gather information about their disease and symptoms, with internet use not directly influencing anxiety and stress levels.
RISK MANAGEMENT AND HEALTHCARE POLICY
(2021)
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Eun Ji Jung, Seongcheol Kim
Summary: The study found that the characteristics of content providers and content expression on the social media platform YouTube were more significant predictors of viewer engagement with suicide-themed content than the characteristics of the message itself. These findings have implications for both platform service providers and diverse groups participating in online discussions on suicide. YouTube has the potential to serve as a platform for open discussions, education, collective coping, and even the diagnosis of suicidal ideation.
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Ahmed Jamleh, Mohannad Nassar, Hamad Alissa, Abdulmohsen Alfadley
Summary: This study evaluated the content of periradicular surgery-related YouTube videos and found that most videos were of low quality, lacking comprehensive information. Patients should not rely solely on YouTube for information on this topic. Dental professionals should provide high-quality, evidence-based videos to enhance patients' understanding and satisfaction.
