In their own words: the reasons why people will (not) sign an organ donor card.

abstract：:Concerns about the ethical and social implications of genetics persist as more applications of genetic and genomic technology have become available. Pediatric testing for genetic influences on response to opioids like codeine is one area of application. We interviewed parents of children enrolled in a mixed-methods st...

journal_title：Health communication

authors： Adelsperger S,Prows CA,Myers MF,Perry CL,Chandler A,Holm IA,Lynch JA

更新日期：2017-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The meanings associated with prostate cancer were studied in contemporary mass print media. The study includes both manifest and latent content analysis of a period of approximately 2 decades, from 1974 to 1995. The manifest analysis revealed a primary emphasis on the importance of early detection. The latent analysis...

journal_title：Health communication

authors： Clarke JN

更新日期：1999-01-01 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：:A 2 (Threat: high vs. low) × 2 (Frame: gain vs. loss) × 2 (Choice: yes vs. no) × 2 (Behavior: prevention vs. detection) factorial design Web-based experiment (N = 814) was conducted to investigate the impact of threat to freedom, message frame, and behavioral choice as antecedents to psychological reactance. The inter...

journal_title：Health communication

authors： Shen L

更新日期：2015-01-01 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：:As a key notion in medical consultation, trustworthiness has been the attention of an array of research, focusing on its significance for the patient-doctor alliance as well as the success of communication in between. Despite its importance, scant effort has been made previously about the actual discourse through whic...

journal_title：Health communication

authors： Zhao X,Mao Y

更新日期：2019-11-18 00:00:00

abstract：:A survey of 104 physicians examined the role of physicians' evaluation of the quality of e-health and beliefs about the influence of patients' use of e-health in how physicians discuss e-health materials with patients. Physicians' lower (poor) evaluation of the quality of e-health content predicted more negative media...

journal_title：Health communication

authors： Fujioka Y,Stewart E

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of this study is to examine the role of health consciousness in processing TV news that contains potential health threats and preventive recommendations. Based on the extended parallel process model (Witte, 1992), relationships among health consciousness, perceived severity, perceived susceptibility, perce...

journal_title：Health communication

authors： Hong H

更新日期：2011-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study attempts to advance theorizing about health policy advocacy with combinations of narrative focus and a statistical map in an attempt to increase state legislators' support for policies to address the issue of obesity by reducing food deserts. Specifically, we examine state legislators' responses to variatio...

journal_title：Health communication

authors： Niederdeppe J,Roh S,Dreisbach C

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：:This study employs the informational and transformational approaches from Taylor's Six-Segment Message Strategy Wheel and narrative transportation theory to understand the use of different advertising message strategies in COVID-19 advertisements on a global scale. Understanding how advertisers constructed their publi...

journal_title：Health communication

authors： Deng T,Ekachai D,Pokrywczynski J

更新日期：2020-12-22 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：:This study investigates how patients' privacy concerns about research uses of biospecimen and trust in doctors are associated with their preferences for informed consent and need for control over biospecimens in a biobank. Particularly, this study focuses on the perspectives of Communication Privacy Management theory,...

journal_title：Health communication

authors： Hong SJ,Drake B,Goodman M,Kaphingst KA

更新日期：2020-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study, we tested whether physicians' ability to adapt their nonverbal behavior to their patients' preferences for a paternalistic interaction style is related to positive consultation outcomes. We hypothesized that the more physicians adapt their nonverbal dominance behavior to match their patients' preference...

journal_title：Health communication

authors： Carrard V,Schmid Mast M,Cousin G

更新日期：2016-11-01 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：:This study evaluates predictions central to the extended parallel process model (EPPM) in the context of dense breast notifications. Many EPPM propositions have gone untested and competing predictions to the model have been evaluated to an even lesser extent. Also left as an open question is exactly how perceived thre...

journal_title：Health communication

authors： Totzkay D,Silk KJ,Thomas BDH

更新日期：2020-10-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Adolescents need access to interactive and high-quality online health information about strategies to reduce their risk for non-communicable diseases (NCDs). This study aimed to evaluate the quality, readability and interactivity of webpages with adolescent-specific information on NCD risk factors. Included web pages ...

journal_title：Health communication

authors： Ruan S,Raeside R,Singleton A,Redfern J,Partridge SR

更新日期：2020-01-22 00:00:00

abstract：:You write this narrative autoethnography to open up a conversation about our chemical lives. You go through your day with chemical mindfulness, questioning taken-for-granted ideas about natural and artificial, healthy and unhealthy, dependency and addiction, trying to understand the chemical messages we consume throug...

journal_title：Health communication

authors： Hodges N

更新日期：2015-01-01 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：: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：: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：:This study examined the Irish media discourse on obesity by employing the Common Sense Model of Illness Representations. A media sample of 368 transcripts was compiled from newspaper articles (n = 346), radio discussions (n = 5), and online news articles (n = 17) on overweight and obesity from the years 2005, 2007, an...

journal_title：Health communication

authors： De Brún A,McCarthy M,McKenzie K,McGloin A

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Scholarship in the field of health communication is broad, with interdisciplinary contributions from researchers trained in a variety of fields including communication, nursing, medicine, pharmacy, public health, and social work. In this paper, we explore the role of "health communication boundary spanners" (HCBS), in...

journal_title：Health communication

authors： Hoffmann-Longtin K,Kerr AM,Shaunfield S,Koenig CJ,Bylund CL,Clayton MF

更新日期：2020-12-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Many people with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), sometimes lacking adequate face-to-face sources of support, turn to online communities to meet others with the disease. These online communities are places of support and education, but through the use of social media communication technologies, people with IBD are re...

journal_title：Health communication

authors： Frohlich DO

更新日期：2016-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Greater consumption of and access to screen media are known correlates of unhealthy sleep behavior in preschoolers. What remains unknown, however, is the role a child's media use plays in this association. Parents and guardians of U.S. preschoolers (N = 278, average child age 56 months) provided information about thei...

journal_title：Health communication

authors： Moorman JD,Harrison K

更新日期：2019-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study examined the effect of exposure to "cigalike" (products resembling cigarettes) e-cigarette advertisements on adolescents' perceptions of cigarettes. A nationally representative sample of 802 adolescents (13-17 years old) was randomly assigned to watch three e-cigarette or three control advertisements. Never...

journal_title：Health communication

authors： Kim M,Popova L,Halpern-Felsher B,Ling PM

更新日期：2019-03-01 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：:This study qualitatively examined how nurses, nurse practitioners, and nurse midwives construct the meaning of patient trust in their work caring for pregnant and laboring women. Twenty-two interviews were conducted with nurse participants employed at clinics, hospitals, and birth centers across Southeastern United St...

journal_title：Health communication

authors： Dalton ED,Pjesivac I,Eldredge S,Miller L

更新日期：2020-03-02 00:00:00

abstract：:As Southeast Asia has experienced haze crises in recent years, encouraging Singaporeans to take preventive measures against negative health outcomes during haze is a growing concern. This study examines how communication factors (i.e., attention to traditional media and new media, interpersonal discussion, and knowled...

journal_title：Health communication

authors： Lin TT,Li L,Bautista JR

更新日期：2017-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Smoking behavior may be influenced by perceived trust of information from tobacco and e-cigarette companies about their products. The purpose of this study was to identify sociodemographic subgroups with more trust in tobacco product (tobacco and e-cigarette) companies than health professionals and explore association...

journal_title：Health communication

authors： Vereen RN,Westmaas JL,Bontemps-Jones J,Jackson K,Alcaraz KI

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00