Fatores associados aos acessos de informações sobre covid-19: Abordagem utilizando análise de correspondência

Abstract

The COVID-19 pandemic is a milestone in the history of humanity and in its fight, information made available daily on the internet was used. One of these sources is the Plataforma JF Salvando Todos, created in March 2020 with the aim of disseminating data on the current pandemic, with the slogan “Information saves life”. The Plataforma website offers the user statistics and metrics on COVID-19 on a national, mesoregional, microregional and municipal scale. As the information is available on the internet, access to the Plataforma can be done from anywhere in the world at any time. Even with this visibility, it was observed that access to the site was decreasing over time and thus a question arises: what makes people access data about the COVID-19 pandemic? To search for an answer, variables were selected that could influence a user to access the site: confirmed cases and deaths caused by SARS-CoV-2, vaccination data against the new coronavirus, population and HDI of five locations, news that referenced the Plataforma and the amount of access to the site that each area studied obtained. Data collection was carried out from June 2020 to May 2022, this period being divided into quarters in order to assist in statistical analyses. Correspondence analysis was used to interpret the data, a geometric data analysis technique. With the correspondence analysis, it was possible to verify the behavior of the locations over time (line profiles) and their association with the studied variables (column profiles), as well as the association between the variables. It was concluded that access to the site is positively linked to the news variable, confirmed cases and deaths caused by COVID-19. In addition, it was observed that the variables representing the vaccination doses are arranged opposite to the access variable. This behavior indicates that the greater the vaccination coverage of the population, the less access to the site.