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.