Table 2.

Comparative description of participants' online activity related to COVID-19 and vaccine according to rural and urban areas.

Characteristics	Overall (n = 5,673)	Rural (n = 1,804)	Urban (n = 3,869)	p -value
Using social media				>0.9
Frequent	801 (14%)	256 (14%)	545 (14%)
Low	4,872 (86%)	1,548 (86%)	3,324 (86%)
Trust on online information				<0.001
No	1,262 (22%)	349 (19%)	913 (24%)
Yes	4,411 (78%)	1,455 (81%)	2,956 (76%)
Satisfaction with online information related to COVID-19*				<0.001
Dissatisfied	469 (8.3%)	154 (8.5%)	315 (8.1%)
Neutral	1,860 (33%)	561 (31%)	1,299 (34%)
Satisfied	1,736 (31%)	610 (34%)	1,126 (29%)
Very dissatisfied	361 (6.4%)	148 (8.2%)	213 (5.5%)
Very satisfied	328 (5.8%)	102 (5.7%)	226 (5.8%)
Language used in searching information online				<0.001
English	1,372 (24%)	557 (31%)	815 (21%)
Not English	4,301 (76%)	1,247 (69%)	3,054 (79%)
Experience of searching COVID-19 information online				<0.001
Difficult	3,126 (55%)	1,072 (59%)	2,054 (53%)
Easy	2,547 (45%)	732 (41%)	1,815 (47%)
Surfing different websites for COVID-19 information				0.8
No	3,324 (59%)	1,062 (59%)	2,262 (58%)
Yes	2,349 (41%)	742 (41%)	1,607 (42%)
Surfing WHO website for COVID-19 information				0.4
Frequently	3,543 (62%)	1,142 (63%)	2,401 (62%)
Rarely	2,130 (38%)	662 (37%)	1,468 (38%)
Effectiveness of online posting				0.017
No	2,369 (42%)	712 (39%)	1,657 (43%)
Yes	3,304 (58%)	1,092 (61%)	2,212 (57%)
Ability to effectively express thoughts about vaccine through social media				0.085
No	3,032 (53%)	934 (52%)	2,098 (54%)
Yes	2,641 (47%)	870 (48%)	1,771 (46%)
Good relationship with				<0.001
Lower socioeconomic group	2,125 (37%)	770 (43%)	1,355 (35%)
Higher socioeconomic group	3,548 (63%)	1,034 (57%)	2,514 (65%)

^*919 patients (16%) of participants didn't answer the question regarding online information satisfaction.