RT Journal Article
T1 Health literacy and critical lecture as key elements to detect and reply to nutrition misinformation on social media: analysis between Spanish healthcare professionals
A1 Segado-Fernández, Sergio
A1 Lozano-Estevan, María del Carmen
A1 Jiménez-Gómez, Beatriz
A1 Ruiz-Núñez, Carlos
A1 Jiménez-Hidalgo, Pedro Jesús
A1 Fernández-Quijano, Invención
A1 González-Rodríguez, Liliana G.
A1 Santillán-García, Azucena
A1 Herrera-Peco, Iván
K1 Nutrición
K1 Redes sociales
K1 Educación sanitaria
AB Health misinformation about nutrition and other health aspects on social media is a current public health concern. Healthcare professionals play an essential role in efforts to detect and correct it. The present study focuses on analyzing the use of competencies associated with training in methodology, health literacy, and critical lecture in order to detect sources of health misinformation that use scientific articles to support their false information. A qualitative study was conducted between 15 and 30 January 2022, wherein the participants were recruited from active users from a nutrition conversation on Twitter, diets, and cancer and defined themselves as healthcare professionals. This study demonstrates that health literacy and critical lecture competencies allow for the detection of more misinformation messages and are associated with a high rate of responses to users that spread the misinformation messages. Finally, this study proposes the necessity of developing actions to improve health literacy and critical lecture competencies between healthcare professionals. However, in order to achieve this, health authorities must develop strategies to psychologically support those healthcare professionals faced with bullying as a result of their activity on social media debunking health hoaxes.
PB MDPI
YR 2022
FD 2022
LK https://hdl.handle.net/10630/36576
UL https://hdl.handle.net/10630/36576
LA eng
NO Segado-Fernández, S.; Lozano-Estevan, M.d.C.; Jiménez-Gómez, B.; Ruiz-Núñez, C.; Jiménez Hidalgo, P.J.; Fernández-Quijano, I.; González-Rodríguez, L.; Santillán-García, A.; Herrera-Peco, I. Health Literacy and Critical Lecture as Key Elements to Detect and Reply to Nutrition Misinformation on Social Media: Analysis between Spanish Healthcare Professionals. Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2023, 20, 23. https://doi.org/10.3390/ ijerph20010023
NO Partial funding for open access charge: Universidad de MálagaThis research was funded by Fundación Banco Santander and Fundación Alfonso X el Sabio, grant number 1012031.
DS RIUMA. Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Málaga
RD 1 mar 2026