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. 2022 Mar 30;105(8):2793–2800. doi: 10.1016/j.pec.2022.03.028

Table 4.

Main COVID-19 information sources, by gender, age group and health literacya.

Information source Gender
Age group
Health literacy
Male
Female
< 30
30–49
50–69
70 +
Inadequate
Adequate
n % n % n % n % n % n % n % n %
Australian official / public broadcaster 204 59.4 217 59.7 89 60.5 168 57.0 115 59.6 49 68.1 160 55.1 261 62.6
Australian Commercial source 208 60.6 208 57.4 85 57.9 197 66.7 116 59.9 19 26.6 138 47.5 279 66.9
Social media 188 54.7 209 57.6 115 78.5 188 63.7 77 39.8 17 23.9 132 45.4 265 63.7
Friends or family living in Australia 111 32.2 142 38.9 44 30.0 76 25.6 85 44.2 47 65.6 165 56.8 87 20.9
Community 93 27.2 103 28.3 19 12.9 56 18.9 79 41.1 42 58.8 111 38.4 85 20.4
Overseas information sources 104 30.4 101 27.8 24 16.4 70 23.7 69 35.9 42 58.6 121 41.8 84 20.2
Mostly in English 186 54.1 204 56.2 119 81.1 189 64.0 74 38.2 9 12.0 84 29.0 306 73.5
Mostly in another language 154 44.7 159 43.8 26 17.8 106 36.0 117 60.6 63 88.0 206 71.0 107 25.6
Total 344 363 147 295 193 72 290 417
a

Differences by language group are reported in Appendix Table S3.