Attitudes to fake news verification: Youth orientations to ‘right click’ authenticate

2021 ◽  
Vol 00 (00) ◽  
pp. 1-21
Author(s):  
Yasmin Ibrahim ◽  
Fadi Safieddine ◽  
Pardis Pourghomi
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
University Students ◽  
Third Party ◽  
Fake News ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Verification Tool ◽  
Before And After ◽  
Factual Content ◽  
Validation Tool ◽  
Selection Of

This article examines the phenomenon of fake news through a survey of university students in the United Kingdom. The survey, composed through a selection of factual and non-factual content/news and complemented through a validation tool, sought to assess the attitudes of these respondents to items of factual misinformation before and after these were verified with the tool. The findings from the survey present online misinformation as a very complex and unfolding phenomenon in terms of user behaviour, particularly when presented with an authentication tool. The majority of respondents failed in identifying factual from fake news posts. While respondents indicated mistrust in using third-party validation tools, the majority indicated a critical need for a verification tool that would support their quest and increase their trust in what they read online.

scholarly journals The impact of symptoms on quality of life before and after diagnosis of coeliac disease: the results from a Polish population survey and comparison with the results from the United Kingdom

2021 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Emilia Majsiak ◽  
Magdalena Choina ◽  
Dominik Golicki ◽  
Alastair M. Gray ◽  
Bożena Cukrowska
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
United Kingdom ◽  
Coeliac Disease ◽  
Gluten Free Diet ◽  
Gluten Free ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Before And After ◽  
The Mean ◽  
The Uk

Abstract Background Coeliac disease (CD) is characterised by diverse clinical symptoms, which may cause diagnostic problems and reduce the patients’ quality of life. A study conducted in the United Kingdom (UK) revealed that the mean time between the onset of coeliac symptoms and being diagnosed was above 13 years. This study aimed to analyse the diagnostic process of CD in Poland and evaluate the quality of life of patients before and after CD diagnosis. In addition, results were compared to the results of the original study conducted in the UK. Methods The study included 2500 members of the Polish Coeliac Society. The patients were asked to complete a questionnaire containing questions on socio-demographic factors, clinical aspects and quality of life, using the EQ-5D questionnaire. Questionnaires received from 796 respondents were included in the final analysis. Results The most common symptoms reported by respondents were bloating (75%), abdominal pain (72%), chronic fatigue (63%) and anaemia (58%). Anaemia was the most persistent symptom, with mean duration prior to CD diagnosis of 9.2 years, whereas diarrhoea was observed for the shortest period (4.7 years). The mean duration of any symptom before CD diagnosis was 7.3 years, compared to 13.2 years in the UK. CD diagnosis and the introduction of a gluten-free diet substantially improved the quality of life in each of the five EQ-5D-5L health dimensions: pain and discomfort, anxiety and depression, usual activities, self-care and mobility (p < 0.001), the EQ-Index by 0.149 (SD 0.23) and the EQ-VAS by 30.4 (SD 28.3) points. Conclusions Duration of symptoms prior to the diagnosis of CD in Poland, although shorter than in the UK, was long with an average of 7.3 years from first CD symptoms. Faster CD diagnosis after the onset of symptoms in Polish respondents may be related to a higher percentage of children in the Polish sample. Introduction of a gluten-free diet improves coeliac patients’ quality of life. These results suggest that doctors should be made more aware of CD and its symptoms across all age groups.

scholarly journals Between disruptions and connections: “New” European Union migrants in the United Kingdom before and after the Brexit

2018 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
pp. e2200 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aija Lulle ◽  
Russell King ◽  
Veronika Dvorakova ◽  
Aleksandra Szkudlarek
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
United Kingdom ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Before And After

scholarly journals United Kingdom : Good Ideas from Successful Cities : Municipal Leadership on Immigrant Integration

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kim Turner
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
Immigrant Integration ◽  
Comparative Perspective ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
The Us ◽  
Selection Of

Our main report, Good Ideas from Successful Cities: Municipal Leadership in Immigrant Integration, explores these themes through a selection of nearly 40 profiles of municipal practice and policies from cities across Canada, the US, Europe and Australasia. In this companion report, United Kingdom: Good Ideas from Successful Cities, we present an additional snapshot of municipal leadership and excellence in immigrant integration from cities in the United Kingdom. Each of these five city profiles includes a selection of related international city practices to encourage comparative perspective and enriched learning

scholarly journals United Kingdom : Good Ideas from Successful Cities : Municipal Leadership on Immigrant Integration

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kim Turner
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
Immigrant Integration ◽  
Comparative Perspective ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
The Us ◽  
Selection Of

Our main report, Good Ideas from Successful Cities: Municipal Leadership in Immigrant Integration, explores these themes through a selection of nearly 40 profiles of municipal practice and policies from cities across Canada, the US, Europe and Australasia. In this companion report, United Kingdom: Good Ideas from Successful Cities, we present an additional snapshot of municipal leadership and excellence in immigrant integration from cities in the United Kingdom. Each of these five city profiles includes a selection of related international city practices to encourage comparative perspective and enriched learning

Interview with Hannah Berry

2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 69-88
Author(s):  
Ann Miller
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
Graphic Novels ◽  
Financial Hardship ◽  
The Political ◽  
Fake News ◽  
Current Role ◽  
Political Research ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Horror Story ◽  
Conditions Of Work

In this interview, the Brighton-based comics artist Hannah Berry discuses her current role as Comics Laureate, which has included the commissioning of a survey into the conditions of work of comics artists in the United Kingdom and has demonstrated the financial hardship that most of them endure. She also talks about the importance of mentoring, organising work around childcare, and how she came to produce a weekly strip for the New Statesman. The interview then focuses on Berry’s three published graphic novels, touching on the influence of films, the tension between storytelling and play with the codes of the medium, the use of gutters and text as elements in a horror story, comics as a corrective to fake news, and the political research that underlies satire.

Some of my friends have told me that most foreign doctors who go to the United Kingdom fail to get any job. I am interested in psychiatry; what is the situation?

BMJ ◽  
2004 ◽  
Vol 328 (7443) ◽  
pp. s132.2-s132
Author(s):  
Manoj Kumar
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
Related Problem ◽  
Similar Question ◽  
Link Type ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Medical Careers ◽  
Questions And Answers ◽  
The Right ◽  
Foreign Doctors ◽  
Selection Of

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