3.4 The Relationship between Participants’ Source of
Information, Level of Belief in Knowledge and Their Level of
Psychological Response on COVID-19 Pandemic
1797 (50.6%) participants stated that they received information about
COVID-19 most frequently from TV/radio. When the participants are
evaluated in terms of knowledge level, source, and belief level from
which the information is obtained; these variables had no effect on
psychological response (p> 0.05 for all areas). The
presence of chronic illness in the family and smoking did not have any
effect on the development of depression, anxiety, and trauma
(p> 0.05 for all areas). The belief in finding the measures
efficiently reduced the risk of depression by 1.386 times (p=0.041,
OR=0.721). In addition, compared to those who did not have the idea of
finding a high chance of survival, it had a reducing effect on
depression 1.68 times (p=0.003, OR=0.594). The relationship between the
sources of information, its level, belief in knowledge, and
psychological response is given in Table 4.