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. 2025 Sep;37(6-7):611-614.
doi: 10.1177/10105395251371252. Epub 2025 Sep 12.

Knowledge, Behaviours, and Preferred Information Sources Relating to COVID-19 Mitigation Strategies Among Ethnically Diverse Australians

Danielle Hutchinson  1 , Aye Moa  1 , Helen Skouteris  2 , Darshini Ayton  2 , Essa Tawfiq  1 , Holly Seale  3 , C Raina MacIntyre  1
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Knowledge, Behaviours, and Preferred Information Sources Relating to COVID-19 Mitigation Strategies Among Ethnically Diverse Australians

Danielle Hutchinson et al. Asia Pac J Public Health. 2025 Sep.
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Declaration of Conflicting InterestsThe authors declared no potential conflicts of interest with respect to the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article.

Figures

CaLD Group: Group with a disability who is physically able, uses information from family members, other disabled individuals, TV, public relations and the government Non-Cald Group: Not able to work is a man over 45 years old who uses social media, his social circle, television, radio and the internet to access information about the disease.
Figure 1.
Sources used to access COVID-19 information by CaLD group (more than one response was allowed).
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