THE FREQUENCY OF USE OF INFORMATION SOURCES AMONGST STUDENTS DURING THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC

The relevance of the study of the social consequences of COVID-19 is due to the fact that this phenomenon affected various aspects of human society. The purpose of the research is to study the features of the use of information sources during the COVID-19 pandemic. The problems of the research are: 1. to identify the sources of medical information obtained during the COVID-19 pandemic and determine the level of trust in it. 2. to reveal the attitude of students towards vaccination against COVID-19 and their actions. As a result of the study, it turned out that most students trust television as a source of information. Therefore, it should be noted that television, as the main and accessible source, should convey intelligible and as accurate information as possible. During the pandemic crisis, the website of the Ministry of Health of the Republic of Armenia gained relatively high authority as a source of information.It should be a task to maintain it and to achieve over time the fact, that the population does not need to turn to sources other than the official website in such situations. The picture of referring to the primary health care link is disturbing. According to the results of the research, it became clear that the level of trust towards familiar doctors is about 3 times higher than the level of referring to local therapist/family doctor, so the role of the primary health care link of the population is still low. Examining the attitude of (presumably) uninfected and infected students with COVID-19 to vaccination against COVID-19, it becomes clear that in both cases, 1/3 oof them were vaccinated under compulsory conditions during the pandemic.