Adolescents' use of tobacco, health locus of control, and self-monitoring.

abstract：:Drawing upon a postcolonial lens, this project looks at how meanings of HIV/AIDS are discursively constructed within the U.S. President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), which was launched in 2003 under the presidency of George W. Bush and has been heralded as the largest global public health intervention pro...

journal_title：Health communication

authors： Sastry S,Dutta MJ

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study examined whether social competence mediates the association between family communication and undergraduate males' body satisfaction. Male undergraduate students (N = 442) completed an online survey assessing their perceptions of mothers' as well as fathers' family communication patterns (FCPs), social compe...

journal_title：Health communication

authors： Taniguchi E

更新日期：2018-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study examined the implications of observing others' exercise behavior on social network sites (SNSs). Social cognitive theory and social comparison theory were used to make predictions about the conditions under which individuals' (N = 232) exposure to exercise-related SNS posts from others in their social netwo...

journal_title：Health communication

authors： Burke TJ,Rains SA

更新日期：2019-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Extending the effectiveness of media-based campaigns into interpersonal networks has been a long concern for studies on persuasive messages, yet there is much to understand about why people attempt to persuade others to engage in health-related behaviors. This study investigated two alternative predictors of interpers...

journal_title：Health communication

authors： Smith RA,Zhu X,Shartle K,Glick L,M'ikanatha NM

更新日期：2017-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The media have the power to sway public perception of health issues by choosing what to publish and the context in which to present information. The media may influence an individual's tendency to overestimate the risk of some health issues while underestimating the risk of others, ultimately influencing health choice...

journal_title：Health communication

authors： Berry TR,Wharf-Higgins J,Naylor PJ

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this article, we contribute to the current literature on the difficulties that social scientists encounter with IRBs, but with a focus on the distinct challenges that health communication scholars face in dealing with IRBs at their own institutions and elsewhere. Although health communication researchers, like othe...

journal_title：Health communication

authors： King CST,Bivens KM,Pumroy E,Rauch S,Koerber A

更新日期：2018-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Improving awareness and mitigating stigma related to depression have been a concern to both health communicators and practitioners. This study conducted a 2 (narrative vs. non-narrative) × 2 (high controllability vs. low controllability) experiment (N = 242) to test the interaction effects of narrative persuasion and ...

journal_title：Health communication

authors： Zhang N,Wen TJ

更新日期：2020-02-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Prostate cancer remains a significant health concern for U.S. adults, especially African American men, who have higher rates of diagnosis than other racial/ethnic groups. The current study evaluated five prostate cancer decision aids (PCDAs) focused on diagnosis and treatment via seven focus groups with 30 African Ame...

journal_title：Health communication

authors： Upshaw SJ

更新日期：2019-12-09 00:00:00

abstract：:During reunion following wartime deployment, military couples are at risk for both depression and relationship distress (Bowling & Sherman, 2008). This article applies the relational turbulence model ( Knobloch & Theiss, 2011a ; Solomon & Theiss, 2011 ) to understand the difficulty military couples may experience upon...

journal_title：Health communication

authors： Knobloch LK,Ebata AT,McGlaughlin PC,Ogolsky B

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study assesses caregivers' perceived level of open communication about illness and death with their terminally ill relatives and examines the contribution of caregivers' characteristics and situational variables to the explanation of open communication. A total of 236 primary caregivers of terminal cancer patient...

journal_title：Health communication

authors： Bachner YG,Carmel S

更新日期：2009-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Social network sites (SNSs) like Twitter continue to attract users, many of whom turn to these spaces for social support for serious illnesses like cancer. Building on literature that explored the functionality of online spaces for health-related social support, we propose a typology that situates this type of support...

journal_title：Health communication

authors： Myrick JG,Holton AE,Himelboim I,Love B

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This project examines alcohol messages exchanged between college students and their parents, as well as how such messages associate with college students' dangerous drinking. Undergraduate students ages 18 to 25 years were recruited for the study and asked to recruit a parent. The sample included 198 students and 188 ...

journal_title：Health communication

authors： Menegatos L,Lederman LC,Floyd K

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:About a hundred years ago, the world was faced with a pandemic that would ultimately infect 500 million people and kill 50 million. Today, we face a potentially similar situation. Although at times like these, the discipline of communication is essential to promoting public health and welfare through its knowledge of ...

journal_title：Health communication

authors： Harrington NG

更新日期：2020-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:As health organizations increasingly use the Internet to communicate medical information and advice (Shortliffe et al., 2000; World Health Organization, 2013), studying factors that affect health information processing and health-protective behaviors becomes extremely important. The present research applied the elabor...

journal_title：Health communication

authors： Kononova A,Yuan S,Joo E

更新日期：2017-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Treatment plans can be thought of as one of the products of a medical interaction. As such, treatment for illness has been investigated as an outcome measure and seems to reflect bias in some areas of the practice of medicine. Although the evidence for patterns of differential treatment is compelling, determining the ...

journal_title：Health communication

authors： Costello BA,Roberts F

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The use of ultrasound (US) screening for developmental dysplasia of the hip (DDH) is an innovation in preventive child health care in the Netherlands. What is not known is whether parents will accept this screening method and will actually participate in it. It is widely known that health behaviors can be influenced b...

journal_title：Health communication

authors： Witting M,Boere-Boonekamp MM,Fleuren MA,Sakkers RJ,Ijzerman MJ

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study explores the mutual influences of friendship development and organizational assimilation processes among first-year male medical students. Interviews and observations were used to examine the ways students constructed and enacted their friendships with male classmates during the process of assimilating into...

journal_title：Health communication

authors： Zorn TE,Gregory KW

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This article presents findings from the first study of cancer news coverage in a national sample of Black and general-audience newspapers. We compared 2,439 health news stories from 23 weekly Black newspapers to 2,767 health news stories from a constructed week sample of 12 daily general-audience newspapers, both coll...

journal_title：Health communication

authors： Cohen EL,Caburnay CA,Luke DA,Rodgers S,Cameron GT,Kreuter MW

更新日期：2008-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A growing body of research has given attention to issues surrounding genetic testing, including expanded carrier screening (ECS), an elective medical test that allows planning or expecting parents to consider the potential occurrence of genetic diseases and disorders in their children. These studies have noted the rol...

journal_title：Health communication

authors： Holton AE,Canary HE,Wong B

更新日期：2017-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The progress of genetic knowledge has been swift and steadfast. As we move forward in the genomic era, post Human Genome Project, and continue to explore how one's genes interact with one's environment, it becomes increasingly important for all audiences to have a firm grasp of the vocabulary used in this health conte...

journal_title：Health communication

authors： Greenberg MS

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This project contributes to our understanding of how audiences interpret televised depictions of illness by investigating responses to the depiction of multiple sclerosis (MS) on the television drama The West Wing from 1999 to 2002. The study employs qualitative methods, including a focus group, individual interviews,...

journal_title：Health communication

authors： Zoller HM,Worrell T

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ensuring that written materials used in behavioral interventions are clear is important to support behavior change. This study used the Clear Communication Index (CCI) to assess the original and revised versions of three types of written participant materials from the SIPsmartER intervention. Materials were revised ba...

journal_title：Health communication

authors： Porter KJ,Alexander R,Perzynski KM,Kruzliakova N,Zoellner JM

更新日期：2019-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Patients in Singapore with chronic conditions such as diabetes are encouraged to participate in patient-professional partnership activities because of rising health care costs and a shortage of infrastructure and human resources. This study explores the self-care and health information seeking behaviors of diabetic pa...

journal_title：Health communication

authors： Zhang X,Foo S,Majid S,Chang YK,Dumaual HTJ,Suri VR

更新日期：2020-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Revealing a hidden, chronic illness is a risky and vulnerable act. Ill individuals often remain socially stigmatized, and those who live with invisible illness must legitimize their ill identity since they infrequently look sick. For individuals with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), disclosing one's illness carries u...

journal_title：Health communication

authors： Defenbaugh NL

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study explores moderating roles of primary social influences in the relationship between adolescent triers' and experimenters' self-reported exposure to antismoking messages and their smoking intentions. The theoretical arguments are drawn from primary socialization theory, group socialization theory, and the soc...

journal_title：Health communication

authors： Paek HJ

更新日期：2008-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study aimed to investigate how health professionals (HPs) communicate about weight with their patients. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with 33 health professionals (7 family physicians, 13 nurse practitioners, and 13 dietitians) working in multidisciplinary healthcare settings in Canada. Thematic analy...

journal_title：Health communication

authors： Aboueid S,Ahmed R,Jasinska M,Pouliot C,Hermosura BJ,Bourgeault I,Giroux I

更新日期：2020-12-14 00:00:00

abstract：:This online survey took place on March 7, 2020 at the beginning of the COVID-19 outbreak in the United States. Participants (n = 698) completed an online survey in which they were asked to reflect on their mediated and interpersonal information consumption, in addition to reporting on risk perceptions, general efficac...

journal_title：Health communication

authors： Nazione S,Perrault E,Pace K

更新日期：2021-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The successful use of drama as a vehicle to influence health-related attitudes and behaviors is credited to its ability to elicit an emotional experience and identification among audience members. This study investigated the views of adolescents regarding an entertainment-education (EE) component of their school's ant...

journal_title：Health communication

authors： Guttman N,Gesser-Edelsburg A,Israelashvili M

更新日期：2008-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Prior research indicates that effective communication between medical providers and patients is associated with a number of positive patient outcomes, yet little research has examined how ecological factors (e.g., hospital size, local demographics) influence patients' reported satisfaction with doctor and nurse commun...

journal_title：Health communication

authors： McFarland DC,Johnson Shen M,Holcombe RF

更新日期：2017-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Social media poses a threat to public health by facilitating the spread of misinformation. At the same time, however, social media offers a promising avenue to stem the distribution of false claims - as evidenced by real-time corrections, crowdsourced fact-checking, and algorithmic tagging. Despite the growing attempt...

journal_title：Health communication

authors： Walter N,Brooks JJ,Saucier CJ,Suresh S

更新日期：2020-08-06 00:00:00