Determining Trustworthiness of Health Information Shared in Social Networking Sites (SNS)

Nurul Ulfa Abdul Aziz, Siti Nurul Hanifah Che Mohammad, Zainuddin Zakaria, Nik Noor Afizah Azlan, Zalinawati Abdullah

2019

Abstract

This study investigates the level of trustworthiness of health information shared in Social Networking Sites (SNS) by examining three main factors namely benevolence, integrity and ability. The research adopted survey approach where a questionnaire has been tailored to ascertain the level of trustworthiness of health information shared via SNS. The questionnaire was distributed among health administration staff in IIUM Medical Center and the respondents were randomly selected. The collected questionnaire was than analysed using SPSS version 26. Descriptive statistics was used to obtain the frequency and percentage of the respondent profile. Finding of the research was obtained by using reliability analysis, frequency analysis, correlation analysis and multiple regression analysis. The result proved that all three (3) variables can influence trustworthiness of health information. Analysis outcome indicate the hypothesis testing of the relationship between three (3) variables with trustworthiness of health information is significant. The variables benevolence and integrity have a positive relationship with trustworthiness while variable ability have a negative relationship with trustworthiness. Between all three factors, result show that the most influential factor towards trustworthiness is benevolence.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Abdul Aziz N., Che Mohammad S., Zakaria Z., Afizah Azlan N. and Abdullah Z. (2019). Determining Trustworthiness of Health Information Shared in Social Networking Sites (SNS). In Proceedings of the 2nd Economics and Business International Conference - Volume 1: EBIC, ISBN 978-989-758-498-5, pages 209-216. DOI: 10.5220/0009201602090216

in Bibtex Style

@conference{ebic19,
author={Nurul Ulfa Abdul Aziz and Siti Nurul Hanifah Che Mohammad and Zainuddin Zakaria and Nik Noor Afizah Azlan and Zalinawati Abdullah},
title={Determining Trustworthiness of Health Information Shared in Social Networking Sites (SNS)},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 2nd Economics and Business International Conference - Volume 1: EBIC,},
year={2019},
pages={209-216},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0009201602090216},
isbn={978-989-758-498-5},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 2nd Economics and Business International Conference - Volume 1: EBIC,
TI - Determining Trustworthiness of Health Information Shared in Social Networking Sites (SNS)
SN - 978-989-758-498-5
AU - Abdul Aziz N.
AU - Che Mohammad S.
AU - Zakaria Z.
AU - Afizah Azlan N.
AU - Abdullah Z.
PY - 2019
SP - 209
EP - 216
DO - 10.5220/0009201602090216