Managing social media health information seeking on COVID-19: The perspective of staff and students from a Malaysian public university

• Main Authors: Tengku Mohd Azzman, Tengku Siti Aisha, A. Manaf, Aini Maznina
• Format: Conference or Workshop Item
• Language: English; English
• Published: 2020
• Subjects: H61.8 Communication of information; T Technology (General)
• Online Access: http://irep.iium.edu.my/87734/3/WAPOR%20programme%20schedule.pdf; http://irep.iium.edu.my/87734/4/WAPOR%202020%20slides.pdf; http://irep.iium.edu.my/87734/; https://www.waporasia.org/2020
• Institution: Universiti Islam Antarabangsa Malaysia

Health information seeking may depend on a variety of factors. From the theory of motivated information management (TMIM), emotions such as anxiety may play a central role in influencing decisions to seek and manage information related to the issue (i.e. direct/indirect information seeking, avoidanc...