Table 6.
Participants’ response frequencies and corresponding choice-percentages of multiple-choice question regarding the difficulties that they encounter when seeking information (N = 776).
| Selection frequency | Percentage % of participants | |
|---|---|---|
| Lots of unreliable information | 580 | 74.74% |
| Fake news spreading | 544 | 70.10% |
| Information overload | 465 | 59.92% |
| Science denial groups/movements | 296 | 38.14% |
| Scientific community difficulties to have consensus presenting their views | 232 | 29.90% |
| Famous people (politicians, celebrities) who deny science | 204 | 26.29% |
| Difficulty understanding medical terms | 188 | 24.23% |
| Lots of information unusable to me | 157 | 20.23% |
| I face difficulty to understand the size of the problem | 134 | 17.27% |
| Difficulty of scientists to present the disease/problem | 128 | 16.49% |
| Media access problems | 60 | 7.73% |
| I do not face any difficulties | 3 | 0.39% |