Table 2.
Summary of response to some questions respecting the gender and age of the study participants (n = 942).
| Variables | Total (n = 942) n(%) | Gender |
P value1 | Age |
P value1 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Females (n = 620) n(%) | Males (n = 322) n(%) | 6–9 years (n = 205) n(%) | 10–14 years (n = 556) n(%) | 15–18 years (n = 181) n(%) | ||||
| Q1: Which social media platform do you use to get news and information about COVID-19?∗ | ||||||||
| 771 (81.8) | 530 (85.5) | 241 (74.8) | <0.001 | 185 (90.2) | 536 (96.4) | 50 (27.6) | <0.001 | |
| 60 (6.4) | 41 (6.6) | 19 (5.9) | 4 (1.9) | 6 (1.1) | 50 (27.6) | |||
| 56 (5.9) | 22 (3.5) | 34 (10.6) | 2 (0.9) | 10 (1.7) | 44 (24.4) | |||
| 21 (2.2) | 11 (1.8) | 10 (3.1) | 0 (0.0) | 1 (0.2) | 20 (11.0) | |||
| YouTube | 13 (1.4) | 7 (1.1) | 6 (1.9) | 11 (5.4) | 1 (0.2) | 1 (0.6) | ||
| Telegram | 18 (2.0) | 6 (1.0) | 12 (3.7) | 3 (1.5) | 1 (0.2) | 14 (7.7) | ||
| TikTok | 3 (0.3) | 3 (0.5) | 0 (0.0) | 0 (0.0) | 1 (0.2) | 2 (1.1) | ||
| Q2: What news topic has you have mainly seen/read/heard of social media during the COVID-19 pandemic? | ||||||||
| Social news | 30 (3.2) | 21 (3.4) | 9 (2.8) | <0.001 | 0 (0.0) | 0 (0.0) | 30 (16.5) | <0.001 |
| Health news | 529 (56.2) | 338 (54.5) | 191 (59.4) | 89 (43.4) | 320 (57.5) | 120 (66.3) | ||
| Technology news | 4 (0.4) | 1 (0.2) | 3 (0.9) | 3 (1.5) | 1 (0.2) | 0 (0.0) | ||
| Economic news | 6 (0.6) | 1 (0.2) | 5 (1.6) | 1 (0.4) | 4 (0.7) | 1 (0.6) | ||
| Sport news | 1 (0.1) | 0 (0.0) | 1 (0.3) | 0 (0.0) | 1 (0.2) | 0 (0.0) | ||
| Educational news | 340 (36.1) | 242 (39.0) | 98 (30.4) | 83 (40.5) | 228 (41.0) | 29 (16.0) | ||
| Miscellaneous news | 20 (2.1) | 11 (1.8) | 9 (2.8) | 19 (9.3) | 0 (0.0) | 1 (0.6) | ||
| Political news | 2 (0.2) | 0 (0.0) | 2 (0.6) | 1 (0.4) | 1 (0.2) | 0 (0.0) | ||
| Cultural news | 10 (1.1) | 6 (0.9) | 4 (1.2) | 9 (4.5) | 1 (0.2) | 0 (0.0) | ||
∗
The authors excluded social media platforms that were not used by the study participants (n = 0) as follows: Snapchat, Skype, Viber, Line, WeChat, Vkontakte, Badoo, and Myspace.
1
Calculated by Chi-squared (χ2) test, P-value significant at ≤ 0.05.