Table 3.

A comparison of mean (±SD) scores for selected questions by demographic variables in a sample of 942 school students.

Variables	Total (n = 942)	Gender		P value1	Age group (years)			P value2
		Female (n = 620)	Male (n = 322)		6-9 (n = 205)	10-14 (n = 556)	15-18 (n = 181)
Q4: Do you think that publishing more news related to COVID-19 on social media has spread fear and panic among the people?	2.65 ± 0.67	2.63 ± 0.69	2.68 ± 0.64	0.036	2.55 ± 0.76	2.74 ± 0.59	2.51 ± 0.76	<0.001
Q5: Do you think the level of Palestinian pages, groups, and accounts on social media covering COVID-19 is good?	1.98 ± 0.95	1.97 ± 0.95	2.00 ± 0.95	0.962	2.31 ± 0.89	1.93 ± 0.95	1.77 ± 0.91	<0.001
Q6: Have you published any information and news related to COVID-19 on social media?	2.53 ± 0.78	2.51 ± 0.79	2.56 ± 0.75	0.025	2.54 ± 0.78	2.60 ± 0.72	2.31 ± 0.89	<0.001
Q7: Filters need to be set up for social media and a specific policy followed during humanitarian crises such as the spread of the COVID-19.	2.61 ± 0.69	2.59 ± 0.72	2.64 ± 0.66	0.018	2.55 ± 0.76	2.68 ± 0.63	2.49 ± 0.77	0.002

¹Calculated by independent sample t-test to test for mean differences between the groups, P-value significant at ≤ 0.05.

²Calculated by ANOVA, P-value significant at ≤ 0.05.