For high rates of compliance with health advice and requirements, there must be trust in health information sources. I've been looking at trust in medics, government, medical charities, journalists, academic and government scientists, using the Wellcome UK Monitor 2009/12/15 >>

>> Trust is measured on 1-5 scales, with 1 = no trust at all and 5 = complete trust. I examined mean trust by information or authority source, then how trust varied by level of education, scientific knowledge measured by a test on the survey, and reported internet usage >>

Figure 1: how trust varies by profession type. N = 2395; weights applied.

Figure 2: how trust varies for each profession type by level of education.

Figure 3: how trust varies for each profession by level of scientific knowledge.

Figure 4: how trust varies for each profession by self-reported level of internet usage (four quartile groups) // Ends