The media and health education: Did Nigerian media provide sufficient warning messages on coronavirus disease?
| Autor: | Gregory Ezeah, Verlumun Celestine Gever |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
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Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)
Pneumonia Viral Nigeria 050801 communication & media studies Disease Disease Outbreaks Newspaper Education Betacoronavirus 03 medical and health sciences 0508 media and communications 0302 clinical medicine Political science Pandemic Humans AcademicSubjects/MED00860 Mass Media 030212 general & internal medicine Health Education Pandemics News media Mass media Government SARS-CoV-2 business.industry 05 social sciences Public Health Environmental and Occupational Health COVID-19 Advertising Original Article Health education Coronavirus Infections business |
| Zdroj: | Health Education Research |
| ISSN: | 1465-3648 0268-1153 |
| DOI: | 10.1093/her/cyaa020 |
| Popis: | Previous studies on media coverage of health issues hardly recognize the role of time in moderating media contents. Instead, scholars most often examine how news media report health issues. In this study, we recognized the role of time by taking into account how media report differs based on when a global outbreak is confirmed in a country and when it is not. We focused on coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) and examined six media—two TV stations, two newspapers and two radio stations. We content-analysed 537 stories and found that there were few stories about the virus before it was confirmed in Nigeria. But as soon as Nigeria recorded a confirmed case, the number of stories tripled. We also noticed that story format and recommendation on health behaviour were also closely linked to the COVID-19 status of Nigeria. However, we did not find an association between Nigeria’s COVID-19 status and policy recommendation among the media studied. Therefore, this study concludes that Nigerian media did not provide sufficient health warning messages on COVID-19 before its spread to the country. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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