Mapping as a visual health communication tool: promises and dilemmas.

abstract：:Public evaluation of risk is influenced by the emotive response to perceived risk characteristics, namely outrage factors. We evaluated which outrage factors contribute to the public perception of two different environmental risks, climate change and fine dust. In particular, the outrage factors of controllability, fa...

journal_title：Health communication

authors： You M,Ju Y

更新日期：2020-11-01 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：:Storylines in fictional television programs may be an effective medium for health-promoting messages. This randomized pretest-posttest (N = 111) with follow-up (n = 71) study examined the persuasive impact of an alcohol poisoning story in the program ER on viewers' drinking-related beliefs, attitudes, intentions, and ...

journal_title：Health communication

authors： Bavin LM,Owens RG

更新日期：2016-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recently, rates of HIV and AIDS are rapidly and disproportionately increasing among minority communities in the rural South. Culturally specific health communication about HIV and inclusion of minority voices in the administration and implementation of HIV programs have been found to be the most effective methods for ...

journal_title：Health communication

authors： Myrick R

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of this study was to understand health information sources of individuals and families impacted by a cancer diagnosis. Overall, the findings support the Freimuth, Stein, and Kean (1989) model of health information acquisition. The cancer patients and family members who participated reported having signific...

journal_title：Health communication

authors： Pecchioni LL,Sparks L

更新日期：2007-01-01 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：:To date, there have been efforts toward creating better health information access for Deaf American Sign Language (ASL) users. However, the usability of websites with access to health information in ASL has not been evaluated. Our article focuses on the usability of four health websites that include ASL videos. We see...

journal_title：Health communication

authors： Kushalnagar P,Naturale J,Paludneviciene R,Smith SR,Werfel E,Doolittle R,Jacobs S,DeCaro J

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The investigation described here examined ABC, CBS, and NBC news coverage of steroids in sports between March 1990 and May 2008. Employing a framing analysis guided by the health belief model (HBM), coverage of the barriers and benefits of using steroids is reported. Overall, the trend by these three news affiliates w...

journal_title：Health communication

authors： Quick BL

更新日期：2010-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Protection Motivation Theory (PMT) holds that individuals under threat base their protection decisions on threat and coping appraisals. In the case of preventable communicable diseases, the theory holds that motivation for vaccination will be higher the more alarming a person's threat appraisals and the more promising...

journal_title：Health communication

authors： Schulz PJ,Hartung U

更新日期：2020-06-10 00:00:00

abstract：:We tested whether the personality trait of agreeableness predicts different individual reactions to the level of nonverbal affiliativeness shown by a physician, in the context of a simulated bad news delivery. We predicted that individuals with high levels of agreeableness would react better to a physician adopting a ...

journal_title：Health communication

authors： Cousin G,Schmid Mast M

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Information and communication technologies can be a valuable tool for enhancing health communication. However, not everyone is utilising the wide suite of digital opportunities. This disparity has the potential to exacerbate existing social and health inequalities, particularly among vulnerable groups such as those wh...

journal_title：Health communication

authors： Borg K,Boulet M,Smith L,Bragge P

更新日期：2019-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Guided largely by the theory of reasoned action, the Get Real about Violence curriculum attempts to reduce verbal and physical aggression, as well as behaviors that encourage verbal or physical aggression, such as watching a fight and spreading rumors about a fight that is going to happen. This 12-lesson curriculum wa...

journal_title：Health communication

authors： Meyer G,Roberto AJ,Boster FJ,Roberto HL

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There is a common perspective among public health researchers and community members that although health promotion or disease prevention practices, programs, and projects should be done with rather than to individuals and communities, for various practical, economic, political, and cultural reasons, this is easier sai...

journal_title：Health communication

authors： Peterson JC

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:China has the largest population in the world today. Recent epidemiology investigation showed a significant increase in the incidence of skin cancer in China. However, little is known about the content of skin cancer articles in Chinese newspaper coverage. To analyze the skin cancer issues in the newspaper media over ...

journal_title：Health communication

authors： Liu Y,Liu M,Xiao H,Cai J,Xu W

更新日期：2010-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Psychotherapy is commonly depicted in films. Films, then, help to inform the public about the nature of psychotherapy and psychotherapists. Although much has been written about the portrayal of psychotherapy in films, there has been little empirical investigation of films from the 21st century. The current study provi...

journal_title：Health communication

authors： Wahl O,Reiss M,Thompson CA

更新日期：2018-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The cultural and linguistic diversity of the U.S. health care provider workforce is expanding. Diversity among health care personnel such as paraprofessional health care assistants (HCAs)-many of whom are immigrants-means that intimate, high-stakes cross-cultural and cross-linguistic contact characterizes many health ...

journal_title：Health communication

authors： Rubin D,Coles VB,Barnett JT

更新日期：2016-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Family planning service quality and clients' satisfaction with services are important determinants of clients' contraceptive use and continuation. We examine women's experiences at family planning clinics on a range of dimensions, including patient-centered communication (PCC), and identify experiences associated with...

journal_title：Health communication

authors： Pilgrim NA,Cardona KM,Pinder E,Sonenstein FL

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This proof-of-concept study aims to evaluate the effect of placing graphic health warning labels (GHWLs) on the ENDS device on users' experience, puffing patterns, harm perception, nicotine exposure, and intention to quit or use in the future. JUUL users (n = 26, age 18-24 years; 69% male; 85% Hispanic) were recruited...

journal_title：Health communication

authors： Li W,Vargas-Rivera M,Ebrahimi Kalan M,Ben Taleb Z,Asfar T,Osibogun O,Noar SM,Maziak W

更新日期：2021-01-21 00:00:00

abstract：:This study proposes the idea of justificatory information forefending, a cognitive process by which individuals accept information that confirms their preexisting health beliefs, and reject information that is dissonant with their attitudes. In light of the sheer volume of often contradictory information related to he...

journal_title：Health communication

authors： Kim JN,Oh YW,Krishna A

更新日期：2018-01-01 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：:For two decades, the extended parallel process model (EPPM; Witte, 1992 ) has been one of the most widely used theoretical frameworks in health risk communication. The model has gained much popularity because it recognizes that, ironically, preceding fear appeal models do not incorporate the concept of fear as a legi...

journal_title：Health communication

authors： So J

更新日期：2013-01-01 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：: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：:Our objective was to test the feasibility of, fidelity to, and initial impact of a brief, glaucoma-specific motivational interviewing (MI) training program for ophthalmic para-professionals. This prospective, mixed-methods study had two components, one for staff and one for patients. Staff fidelity to MI principles wa...

journal_title：Health communication

authors： Newman-Casey PA,Killeen O,Miller S,MacKenzie C,Niziol LM,Resnicow K,Creswell JW,Cook P,Heisler M

更新日期：2020-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Drawing upon an optimal matching model framework, this study examined weak tie support preference and coping style as predictors of credibility perceptions among members of health-related computer-mediated support groups. One hundred and thirty-five participants from various health-related online support groups respon...

journal_title：Health communication

authors： Wright KB,Rains SA

更新日期：2014-01-01 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：:Bariatric surgery patients often experience physical and psychosocial stressors, and difficulty adjusting to significant lifestyle changes. As a result, social support groups that provide patients with support, coping skills, and nutritional information are valuable components of bariatric care. Support group attendan...

journal_title：Health communication

authors： Atwood ME,Friedman A,Meisner BA,Cassin SE

更新日期：2018-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A web-based 2 (preexisting position: vaccine-inclined vs. -hesitant) by 2 (message type: scientific evidence vs. misinformation) experimental study was conducted to investigate individuals' processing of misinformation (vis-à-vis scientific evidence) on the vaccine-autism link within the framework of epistemic egocent...

journal_title：Health communication

authors： Shen L,Zhou Y

更新日期：2020-05-05 00:00:00

abstract：:This study looks at media portrayals of sexual health through the popular HBO television show Girls. This rhetorical criticism of Girls delineates two emergent narrative themes. First, the show repeatedly discusses human papillomavirus (HPV) in terms of its severity, but it oscillates in terms of representing the degr...

journal_title：Health communication

authors： Rogers B

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The present study defined cancer information overload (CIO) as an aversive disposition wherein a person is confused and overwhelmed by cancer information, which occurs when he or she fails to effectively categorize new information due to a lack of resources for effective learning. Based on the definition and informed ...

journal_title：Health communication

authors： Chae J,Lee CJ,Jensen JD

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00