Open AccessCovid 19 information seeking and utilization among women in Warri Metropolis, Delta State, Nigeria
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
international journal of library and information services
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2475-997X
pISSN - 2475-9961
DOI - 10.4018/ijlis.20210701oa11
Subject(s) - pandemic , covid-19 , government (linguistics) , business , the internet , descriptive statistics , data collection , social media , environmental health , geography , socioeconomics , medicine , computer science , disease , sociology , statistics , world wide web , infectious disease (medical specialty) , mathematics , linguistics , philosophy , pathology
The study is intended to explore COVID-19 information seeking and utilization among women in Warri Metropolis, Delta State, Nigeria. Descriptive survey research design was adopted using a self-constructed questionnaire to collect data. Data were analyzed using simple percentages. Findings revealed that a majority of the women need information on COVID-19 preventive measures, followed by causes of the pandemic; Internet is the source of COVID-19 information used by the highest number of respondents, followed by television and social media; a majority of them consider the authority of the source of the information on coronavirus followed by usefulness of the information; a majority access COVID-19 information to enable them identify symptoms of the disease followed by protection against COVID-19 infection while concern for reliability of much of the available information on the pandemic was a major barrier to their utilization of COVID-19 information. It is recommended that effort should be made by government to get mobile network operators to reduce network tariff.