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. 2021 Apr 15;150:104465. doi: 10.1016/j.ijmedinf.2021.104465

Table 2.

Participants’ response frequencies of the seven-level Likert scale question about information sources preference (N = 776) (IQR: Intequartile range).

LIKERT SCALE 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Median IQR
Never Rarely (1 time per 2 months) Usually not (1 time a month) Sometimes (1 time per 15 days) Often (3−4 times a week) Very often (1−2 times a day) Many times a day
Newspapers/ magazines (printed press) 447 152 52 67 38 14 6 1 1
Radio 289 163 82 105 89 35 13 2 3
Television 62 44 32 85 194 226 133 5 2
Electronic press (e.g. electronic newspapers) 135 44 34 74 145 223 121 5 3
News websites (e.g. websites with news content) 74 43 39 91 162 233 134 5 2
Valid websites (e.g. Ministry of Health, Civil Protection) 126 78 69 123 151 155 74 4 4
Internet (e.g. general blogs, personal pages) 187 81 60 114 126 135 73 4 4
Social Networks in general 186 75 53 92 134 146 90 4 4
Facebook 244 71 54 83 102 136 86 4 5
Twitter 600 51 29 26 29 33 8 1 0
Instagram 549 54 34 39 38 36 26 1 1
YouTube 477 86 45 51 59 42 16 1 2
Reddit 681 28 18 26 19 4 0 1 0
Pinterest 678 33 18 25 14 8 0 1 0
WhatsApp 687 28 14 22 18 6 1 1 0