Table 12.
Trust in information sources
| % Inhabitants of German-speaking Switzerland | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Information sources a | Spring 2020 | Fall 2020 | Winter 2020 | p-value | |||||||||
| ++ | + | – | – | ++ | + | – | – | ++ | + | – | – | ||
| Health professionals | 41% | 46% | 9% | 4% | 40% | 47% | 10% | 3% | 42% | 48% | 7% | 3% | 0.311 |
| Health authorities | 41% | 41% | 12% | 6% | 42% | 40% | 12% | 6% | 47% | 39% | 10% | 4% | 0.049 |
| Info-Hotline | 34% | 47% | 12% | 7% | 37% | 45% | 14% | 4% | 44% | 41% | 10% | 5% | < 0.001 |
| Radio | 17% | 61% | 17% | 5% | 15% | 59% | 22% | 5% | 13% | 58% | 23% | 6% | 0.018 |
| Internet | 16% | 55% | 24% | 5% | 17% | 55% | 24% | 4% | 16% | 58% | 21% | 5% | 0. 409 |
| Television | 13% | 55% | 25% | 7% | 14% | 59% | 22% | 5% | 18% | 61% | 16% | 5% | < 0.001 |
| Newspaper - Offline | 13% | 54% | 27% | 7% | 10% | 58% | 27% | 6% | 8% | 53% | 30% | 9% | 0.001 |
| News App | 8% | 50% | 31% | 11% | 8% | 46% | 38% | 8% | 6% | 43% | 40% | 11% | < 0.001 |
| Family, friends, acquaintances | 9% | 44% | 39% | 8% | 10% | 47% | 37% | 6% | 9% | 49% | 36% | 6% | 0.216 |
| Social media | 4% | 10% | 56% | 30% | 4% | 15% | 49% | 32% | 4% | 20% | 42% | 34% | 0.005 |
a. Not all sources of information asked are reported in the table
++ = very trustworthy; + rather trustworthy; − = rather untrustworthy; −- = very untrustworthy