Level of Perception of Health Information on Social Media and Health Practices of Senior High School Students
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https://doi.org/10.54536/ajpehs.v4i1.6756Keywords:
Fake News Consumption, Health Information Perception, Health Practices, Social Media, Social Media LiteracyAbstract
Social media’s ascent has a profound impact on how people, especially students, get and interact with health information. This descriptive-correlational study aimed to determine the significant relationship between the level of perception of Health Information on social media and the Health Practices of senior high school students. It aimed to address the issue faced by social media users, specifically the senior high school students, when encountering fake news that could impact their health practices, potentially leading to negative outcomes. It examined the relationship between the perception of health information on social media and the health practices of 311 senior high school students from a medical school in Davao City. The Shapiro-Wilk results (W = 0.938, p < 0.001) indicated that the data were not normally distributed; therefore, Spearman’s Rho was used. The results of Spearman’s Rho also showed a significant Low Relationship (r = 0.273, p < 0.01) between the Level of Perception of Health Information on Social Media and the Health Practices of senior high school students at a 0.05 level of significance. Thus, the null hypothesis is hereby rejected. The findings suggest that among Senior High School Students, a positive perception of health information on social media can be attributed to the improvement of health practices among them. However, the findings demonstrated that the relationship between health information on social media and health practices is low.
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