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. 2022 Jan 6;22:42. doi: 10.1186/s12889-021-12271-w

Table 10.

Proportions of participants trusting the different information sources by corona-specific HL

% Inhabitants of German-speaking Switzerland
Information sourcesa corona-specific HL p-value
inadequate problematic sufficient
++ + ++ + ++ +
Health professionals 19% 54% 33% 55% 50% 42% < 0.001
Health authorities 19% 42% 33% 49% 53% 36% < 0.001
Info-Hotline 14% 48% 31% 54% 46% 41% < 0.001
Television 5% 44% 9% 62% 20% 60% < 0.001
Internet 5% 43% 9% 61% 22% 57% < 0.001
Family, friends, acquaintances 5% 35% 5% 46% 12% 49% < 0.001
Radio 4% 42% 8% 64% 20% 60% < 0.001
Newspaper - Offline 4% 34% 4% 57% 14% 58% < 0.001
News App 2% 26% 4% 43% 10% 52% < 0.001
Social media 2% 12% 3% 12% 5% 20% < 0.001

a. Not all sources of information asked are reported in the table

++ = very trustworthy; + = rather trustworthy