PMID- 37239568
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20230529
LR  - 20230626
IS  - 1660-4601 (Electronic)
IS  - 1661-7827 (Print)
IS  - 1660-4601 (Linking)
VI  - 20
IP  - 10
DP  - 2023 May 17
TI  - The Influence of News Consumption Habits and Dispositional Traits on Trust in 
      Medical Scientists.
LID - 10.3390/ijerph20105842 [doi]
LID - 5842
AB  - Public trust in medical institutions is essential for ensuring compliance with 
      medical directives. However, the politicization of public health issues and the 
      polarized nature of major news outlets suggest that partisanship and news 
      consumption habits can influence medical trust. This study employed a survey with 
      858 participants and used regression analysis to assesses how news consumption 
      habits and information assessment traits (IATs) influence trust in medical 
      scientists. IATs included were conscientiousness, openness, need for cognitive 
      closure (NFCC), and cognitive reflective thinking (CRT). News sources were 
      classified on the basis of factuality and political bias. Initially, readership 
      of liberally biased news was positively associated with medical trust (p < 0.05). 
      However, this association disappeared when controlling for the news source's 
      factuality (p = 0.28), while CRT (p < 0.05) was positively associated with 
      medical trust. When controlling for conservatively biased news sources, 
      factuality of the news source (p < 0.05) and NFCC (p < 0.05) were positively 
      associated with medical trust. While partisan media bias may influence medical 
      trust, these results suggest that those who have higher abilities to assess 
      information and who prefer more credible news sources have a greater trust in 
      medical scientists.
FAU - Larsen, Meng Zhen
AU  - Larsen MZ
AUID- ORCID: 0009-0002-8305-0718
AD  - Global Health Policy and Data Institute, San Diego, CA 92123, USA.
AD  - S-3 Research LLC, San Diego, CA 92123, USA.
FAU - Haupt, Michael R
AU  - Haupt MR
AUID- ORCID: 0000-0003-4985-7796
AD  - Global Health Policy and Data Institute, San Diego, CA 92123, USA.
AD  - Department of Cognitive Science, University of California, San Diego, CA 92093, 
      USA.
FAU - McMann, Tiana
AU  - McMann T
AD  - Global Health Policy and Data Institute, San Diego, CA 92123, USA.
AD  - S-3 Research LLC, San Diego, CA 92123, USA.
AD  - Global Health Program, Department of Anthropology, University of California, San 
      Diego, CA 92093, USA.
FAU - Cuomo, Raphael E
AU  - Cuomo RE
AD  - Global Health Policy and Data Institute, San Diego, CA 92123, USA.
AD  - Department of Anesthesiology, School of Medicine, University of California, San 
      Diego, CA 94720, USA.
FAU - Mackey, Tim K
AU  - Mackey TK
AD  - Global Health Policy and Data Institute, San Diego, CA 92123, USA.
AD  - S-3 Research LLC, San Diego, CA 92123, USA.
AD  - Global Health Program, Department of Anthropology, University of California, San 
      Diego, CA 92093, USA.
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
PT  - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
DEP - 20230517
PL  - Switzerland
TA  - Int J Environ Res Public Health
JT  - International journal of environmental research and public health
JID - 101238455
SB  - IM
MH  - Humans
MH  - *Trust
MH  - *Personality
MH  - Surveys and Questionnaires
MH  - Politics
PMC - PMC10218345
OTO - NOTNLM
OT  - dispositional traits
OT  - misinformation
OT  - news consumption habits
OT  - public health
OT  - trust in medical institutions
COIS- M.Z.L., T.M. and T.K.M. are also employees of the startup company S-3 Research 
      LLC. S-3 Research is a startup funded and currently supported by the National 
      Institutes of Health-National Institute on Drug Abuse through a Small Business 
      Innovation and Research contract for opioid-related social media research and 
      technology commercialization. The company provided no funding or specific support 
      for this study and was not commissioned in any way. The authors declare no other 
      conflict of interest associated with this manuscript.
EDAT- 2023/05/27 09:42
MHDA- 2023/05/29 06:42
PMCR- 2023/05/17
CRDT- 2023/05/27 01:11
PHST- 2023/02/28 00:00 [received]
PHST- 2023/04/25 00:00 [revised]
PHST- 2023/05/09 00:00 [accepted]
PHST- 2023/05/29 06:42 [medline]
PHST- 2023/05/27 09:42 [pubmed]
PHST- 2023/05/27 01:11 [entrez]
PHST- 2023/05/17 00:00 [pmc-release]
AID - ijerph20105842 [pii]
AID - ijerph-20-05842 [pii]
AID - 10.3390/ijerph20105842 [doi]
PST - epublish
SO  - Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2023 May 17;20(10):5842. doi: 
      10.3390/ijerph20105842.