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Analyze some characteristics of the fake news about COVID-19 circulating in Brazil from January to June 2020. The false news registered until Cambodia Email Address in two sites (G1, belonging to the Globo Corporation, and the Ministry of Health) were collected and classified according to their content. The following data was extracted from each misleading news: date of circulation, title, channel (for example, WhatsApp) and disclosure format (text, photo or video Cambodia Email Address ) and registration portal. The terms found in the headlines of the fake news were analyzed in Google Trends to determine if the number of Google searches for those terms had increased after the spread of a misleading news story. The Brazilian macro-regions with the highest percentage increase in searches made with the analyzed terms were also determined.
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To assess the association between Cambodia Email Address behaviors related to alcohol consumption during the COVID-19 pandemic and quarantine, anxiety symptoms, and sociodemographic characteristics in Latin America and the Caribbean. Data were collected through an online cross-sectional survey (non-probabilistic sample) conducted by the Pan American Health Organization between The Cambodia Email Address response variables were four behaviors related to alcohol consumption: drinking while socializing online, drinking in the presence of children, drinking before 5 p.m., or episodic binge drinking. Quarantine, anxiety symptoms, and sociodemographic covariates were the explanatory variables.
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Quarantine was positively related to a higher frequency of alcohol consumption Cambodia Email Address while socializing online and in the presence of children, but negatively to a higher frequency of episodic binge drinking. Anxiety symptoms were related to a higher frequency of binge drinking, higher alcohol consumption while socializing online, and drinking before 5 p.m. Higher incomes Cambodia Email Address appeared to be more associated with all the alcohol-related behaviors studied. less episodic binge drinking during the pandemic. Quarantine during the COVID-19 pandemic appears to affect alcohol-related behavior and mental health indicators, such as anxiety symptoms. This study is the first initiative to measure the consequences of the quarantine on behavior related to alcohol consumption and mental health in Latin America and the Caribbean during the Cambodia Email Address pandemic. Given the associations found, screening tests and brief interventions to address alcohol use and mental health are recommended.