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Exposure to health misinformation, self-care confidence and delayed care-seeking among adults in the UK: a cross-sectional survey

2026-02-10

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<title>Abstract</title> <p>Objectives Generate population-level evidence on exposure to misleading health information and its behavioural implications within contemporary self-care. Design Cross-sectional, self-administered online survey. Setting United Kingdom. Participants 1,414 adults (mean age 46.8 years) recruited via a closed online panel using quota sampling by age, gender and ethnicity. Main outcome m...

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Literature Corpus work: 300aad04-2038-53c2-b34f-f1be7a66d32d
DOI: 10.21203/rs.3.rs-8824194/v1

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