Participatory action research to co-design a culturally appropriate COVID-19 risk communication and community engagement strategy in rural Pakistan by Victoria Hall Moran, Marena Ceballos-Rasgado, Sadia Fatima, Usman Mahboob, Salman Ahmad, Michael McKeown, Mukhtiar Zaman

“…Nine themes were identified: Attitudes to the pandemic: From skepticism to acceptance, Changing attitudes about vaccination: rumors and trust, COVID-19 and Faith, Social impact of the pandemic, Access to water, Resource mobilization: personal protective equipment, Spaces where collaborative effort can bring to solutions, Agents of change, and Empowerment of women.DiscussionThe participatory approach of this research allowed understanding of the challenges faced by the community to engage in behavior change strategies to reduce the spread of COVID-19 and enabled the community to find sustainable solutions. …”
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Undertaking Community Engagement for a Controlled Human Malaria Infection Study in Kenya: Approaches and Lessons Learnt by Noni Mumba, Patricia Njuguna, Patricia Njuguna, Primus Chi, Vicki Marsh, Vicki Marsh, Esther Awuor, Mainga Hamaluba, Mainga Hamaluba, Cynthia Mauncho, Salim Mwalukore, Johnson Masha, Mary Mwangoma, Betty Kalama, Hassan Alphan, Juliana Wambua, Philip Bejon, Philip Bejon, Dorcas Kamuya, Dorcas Kamuya, Melissa C. Kapulu, Melissa C. Kapulu

“…Such types of studies can give rise to increased rumors and jeopardize research participation in study activities, including non-HIS research. …”
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Public earthquake communication in Italy through a multi-source social media platform: The INGVterremoti experience (2010–2022) by Maurizio Pignone, Alessandro Amato, Concetta Nostro, Emanuele Casarotti, Carlo Meletti, Matteo Quintiliani, Valentino Lauciani

“…Special attention has been given to interactions with the public, especially on our Facebook page, in order to understand their information needs, identify rumors and fake news, particularly in areas affected by seismic sequences, and address the most pressing requests. …”
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Perspectives of Healthcare Professionals on Factors Limiting Implementation of Isoniazid Preventive Therapy in People Living with HIV in Eritrea: A Qualitative Study by Russom M, Jeannetot DYB, Tesfamariam S, Stricker BH, Verhamme K

“…It was observed that healthcare professionals had significant information gap that resulted in rumors and doubts on the benefits and risks of IPT, which ultimately caused reluctance on its implementation. …”
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Goat Meat Does Not Cause Increased Blood Pressure by Katsunori Sunagawa, Tetsuya Kishi, Ayako Nagai, Yuka Matsumura, Itsuki Nagamine, Shuntoku Uechi

“…While there are persistent rumors that the consumption of goat meat dishes increases blood pressure, there is no scientific evidence to support this. …”
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العصبية القبلية وعلاقتها بالمشارکة الانتخابية: دراسة أنثروبولوجية لقبائل الغرق قبلي بمحافظة الفيوم... by إيمان محمود عبدالمولى هیکل

“…He reached general results, the most important of which are: The process of tribal intolerance has a negative role in several axes, the most important of which are: regularly renewing problems and disputes between the tribe every election, and making the elections turn into family and not political relations, and that tribal intolerance, elections, elections, pages, elections, pages, elections, pages, elections, pages, posters, doodling, doodling, posters, share to share rumors about them. The study began in the episode.…”
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Cyberbullying. Screening de acoso entre iguales: descripción y datos psicométricos by Maite Garalgordobil

“…El test se configura en dos secciones que permiten explorar conductas de bullying “cara-a-cara” (físico, verbal, social, psicológico) y quince conductas de cyberbullying (robo de contraseña, llamar anónimamente para atemorizar, enviar mensajes ofensivos/insultantes, difamar/difundir rumores para desprestigiar, suplantar la identidad, acosar sexualmente...). …”
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Knowledge and Perceptions of Nurse Practitioners on Adverse Events Following Immunization and Barriers to Reporting in the Central Region, Eritrea: A Cross-Sectional Study by Abdu N, Mosazghi A, Yehdego T, Tesfamariam EH, Russom M

“…If they are not reported and investigated in timely fashion, they can create rumors and confidence gaps. In the last few years, reporting AEFIs in the Central Region of Eritrea, compared to other regions, has been found to be very low, with the root cause for this variation unknown, making intervention strategies challenging. …”
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Utilization of immediate post-partum long acting reversible contraceptives and its associated factors among mothers who gave birth in Addis Ababa public hospitals, Ethiopia: An ins... by Kihinetu Gelaye Wudineh, Sisay Desalegn, Mesafint Ewunetu, Shumiye Shiferaw

“…Healthcare providers clarify any rumors about contraceptives to assure a positive and supportive attitude to increase its uptake.…”
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Chronic mass psychogenic illness among women in Derashe Woreda, Segen Area People Zone, southern Ethiopia: a community based cross-sectional study by Moges Ayehu, Misganu Endriyas, Emebet Mekonnen, Mekonen Shiferaw, Tebeje Misganaw

“…Conclusion Unrealistic and exaggerated rumors and inadequate explanations about the nature and spread of the illness were the main contributing factors for the spread and prolongation of the outbreak. …”
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Is Polish Burqa Possible? Image of Woman in Poland between Politics and Contemporaneous Art by Aleksandra Lukaszewicz, Igor Gorewicz

“…Analizzando l’attuale scenario politico, è bene ricordare la ‘distribuzione del sensibile’ come l’ha formulata Jacques Ranciére, che fa riferimento a un regime e delimita spazi e tempi, del visibile e dell’invisibile, della parola e del rumore, e allo stesso tempo pensare a una possibile ridistribuzione, che ha un carattere emancipativo il quale può contribuire a politiche ed estetiche più democratiche. …”
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ILOKUSI-ILOKUSI HOAKS COVID-19 DI MEDIA SOSIAL DALAM PERSPEKTIF CYBER-PRAGMATICS/COVID-19 HOAX ILLOCUTIONS IN INSTAGRAM IN THE PERSPECTIVE OF CYBERPRAGMATICS by R. Kunjana Rahardi

“…This research succeeded in nding Covid-19 hoax illocution as follows: (1) illocution to spread unclear information, (2) illocutionary to erroneous information, (3) illocution to spread false news, (4) illocution to rumors, (5) illocution to spread untrue news, (6) illocution to exaggerate misinformation, (7) illocution to spread information that is not clear, (8) illocution to exaggerate the problem. …”
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Exploring the factors contributing to low vaccination uptake for nationally recommended routine childhood and adolescent vaccines in Kenya by Tene-Alima Essoh, Gbadebo Collins Adeyanju, Abdu A. Adamu, Haoua Tall, Aristide Aplogan, Collins Tabu

“…While factors driving low uptake of the newly introduced HPV vaccine were reported to include misinformation about the vaccine, rumors that the vaccine is a form of female contraception, the suspicion that the vaccine is free and available only to girls, poor knowledge of cervical cancer and benefits of HPV vaccine. …”
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Media and information literacy to counter disinformation by Samy Abdel Raoof Tayia

“…Students in particular and indeed all citizens need to develop pertinent competences to navigate these fast-changing environments and in order to be able to be empowered against “fake news”, "rumors" and "hate speech" spread all over the digital media.…”
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Deepfake detection by Wang, Ying

“…On the other hand, this kind of facial deep forging technology is also easy to be maliciously used by criminals to make pornographic movies and false news, and even used by political figures to create political rumors, which brings great potential threats to national security and social stability. …”
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The application of Islamic laws in cyber related cases: An analysis by Mohamed, Duryana, Hussin, Nasimah

“…The same also applies in Islamic law where a Muslim is prohibited from spreading rumors and back biting. However, there is no specific Shari‘ah provision on this matter. …”
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Kaedah penyelesaian dalam menangani pertukaran agama di kalangan masyarakat Melayu- Islam di Johor, Selangor dan Wilayah Persekutuan Kuala Lumpur by Mohd. Yusof, Farahwahida, Timmiati, Sharifah Munirah, Nordin, Nur Raihan, Ruskam, Aminuddin, Suratman, Azmi Shah, Ripin, Mohd. Nasir

“…In the mean time, as waiting for the approval such laws to control the conversion religion among Malay-Muslims, rumors have started to circulate saying that the involvement of Malay-Muslims youngsters or adolescents are tempted to change their religion. …”

COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy: The Perils of Peddling Science by Social Media and the Lay Press by Shabeer Ali Thorakkattil, Suhaj Abdulsalim, Mohammed Salim Karattuthodi, Mazhuvanchery Kesavan Unnikrishnan, Muhammed Rashid, Girish Thunga

“…VH is a deep-rooted phenomenon, but it is difficult to zero in on the exact reason for it. Spreading rumors/misinformation on COVID-19 vaccines might be an important provocation for VH, which includes indiscriminately reporting AEFI on a massive scale. …”
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Hate speech in adolescents: A binational study on prevalence and demographic differences by Melisa Castellanos, Alexander Wettstein, Sebastian Wachs, Sebastian Wachs, Julia Kansok-Dusche, Cindy Ballaschk, Norman Krause, Ludwig Bilz

“…The most frequent forms of offline hate speech were offensive jokes (94%) and the spread of lies and rumors about the members of a specific social group (84%). …”
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Knowledge, Awareness, and Attitudes of Pakistani Population towards Second Wave of COVID-19 - A Questionnaire Based Survery by Samina Fida, Rabia Nafees, Hala Mansoor, Saba Saif, Mashhood-ul-Hassan, Sahar Sharif, Abbas Cheema

“…Out of all participants, 57.9% people admitted that there was a stigma associated with COVID-19 diagnosis, 37.8% believed that lack of testing and reporting was associated with this stigma, 46.6% individuals believed in rumors of false COVID-19 diagnosis and wrong treatment in Pakistani hospitals, 46.9% showed that they did not trust healthcare for patient management,65.9% attributed hiding disease to mistrust in healthcare and 57.5% participants did not want to be quarantined in government centers, if needed.…”
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