Weak tie support preference and preferred coping styles as predictors of perceived credibility within health-related computer-mediated support groups.

abstract：:Uncertainty management theory (UMT; Brashers, 2001, 2007) is rooted in the assumption that, as opposed to being inherently negative, health-related uncertainty is appraised for its meaning. Appraisals influence subsequent behaviors intended to manage uncertainty, such as information seeking. This study explores the co...

journal_title：Health communication

authors： Rains SA,Tukachinsky R

更新日期：2015-01-01 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：:Despite increased information-seeking by the public, a significant percentage of those diagnosed with a serious disease such as cancer report that they do not seek or receive health information beyond that given by health care providers. This study attempts to profile these nonseekers and study possible determinants o...

journal_title：Health communication

authors： Ramanadhan S,Viswanath K

更新日期：2006-01-01 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

abstract：:We interviewed 25 African American HIV survivors who were as much as 25 years distant from their original diagnoses. We asked them to tell us about both supportive and non-supportive messages they received upon learning of their HIV status. Their interviews showed evidence of the importance of what we call standing to...

journal_title：Health communication

authors： Hample D,Na L

更新日期：2014-09-01 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：:Scholarship on couple communication about cancer employs variable conceptualizations of communication, and common measurement strategies make questionable assumptions about communication. This study provides a descriptive foundation for a multiple-topic, multidimensional approach to studying couple talk about cancer. ...

journal_title：Health communication

authors： Goldsmith DJ,Miller GA

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:While eHealth technologies are promisingly efficient and widespread, theoretical frameworks capable of predicting long-term use, termed continuance, are lacking. Attempts to extend prominent information technology (IT) theories to the area of eHealth have been limited by small sample sizes, cross-sectional designs, se...

journal_title：Health communication

authors： Forquer HA,Christensen JL,Tan AS

更新日期：2014-01-01 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：:A television (TV) character's actions and the consequences of these actions in TV storylines can shape the audience's own behavioral intentions, especially if the audience identifies with that character. The current research examines how storylines depicting positive versus negative consequences of drinking affect you...

journal_title：Health communication

authors： Russell CA,Hamby A,Chapoton B,Régnier Denois V

更新日期：2020-03-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Climate change is one of the most serious and pervasive challenges facing us today. Our changing climate has implications not only for the ecosystems upon which we depend, but also for human health. Health communication scholars are well-positioned to aid in the mitigation of and response to climate change and its hea...

journal_title：Health communication

authors： Chadwick AE

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Encouraging patients to be involved in their care and enhancing shared decision making (SDM) have been advocated over the past two decades as means to enhance patient-centered care. However, one of the barriers to implementing SDM in medical consultations is the need to adapt this approach to various populations and m...

journal_title：Health communication

authors： Zisman-Ilani Y,Roe D,Scholl I,Härter M,Karnieli-Miller O

更新日期：2017-01-01 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：:Public health officials (PHOs) are responsible for providing trustworthy information during a public health crisis; however, there is little research on how the public behaves when their expectations for such information are violated. Drawing on media dependency theory and source credibility research as our primary th...

journal_title：Health communication

authors： Jang K,Baek YM

更新日期：2019-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The COVID-19 pandemic has posed unprecedented challenges for the United States and the world. In this article, we discuss several communication challenges that have arisen during the pandemic, with insights from the fields of health and crisis communication. We focus in particular on the lack of clarity in the US resp...

journal_title：Health communication

authors： Noar SM,Austin L

更新日期：2020-12-01 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：:In the era of evidence-based public health promotion and planning, the use of maps as a form of evidence to communicate about the multiple determinants of cancer is on the rise. Geographic information systems and mapping technologies make future proliferation of this strategy likely. Yet disease maps as a communicatio...

journal_title：Health communication

authors： Parrott R,Hopfer S,Ghetian C,Lengerich E

更新日期：2007-01-01 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：: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：: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：:Naturopathic medicine is a holistic healing approach involving natural remedies, wellness, and disease prevention. A literature review shows the discipline is attempting to overcome several professional obstacles and expand into new areas. Amid this transition, the naturopathic community--like other groups--has adopte...

journal_title：Health communication

authors： Walden J

更新日期：2013-01-01 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 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：: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：:Obesity stigma largely remains a socially acceptable bias with harmful outcomes for its victims. While many accounts have been put forward to explain the bias, the role of obesity etiology beliefs has received little scrutiny. The research examined the effect that beliefs about the psychological etiology of obesity ha...

journal_title：Health communication

authors： Khan SS,Tarrant M,Weston D,Shah P,Farrow C

更新日期：2018-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Utilizing primary socialization theory (PST) and longitudinal survey data from 381 Latina/o sixth- through eighth-grade students, we hypothesized that four types of parent anti-substance use messages (i.e., parents' own past substance use, religious beliefs, respect for family, and peer resistance) would discourage La...

journal_title：Health communication

authors： Kam JA,Pérez Torres D

更新日期：2018-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This article examines pediatrician-parent interaction in the context of acute pediatric encounters for children with upper respiratory infections. Parents and physicians orient to treatment recommendations as normatively requiring parent acceptance for physicians to close the activity. Through acceptance, withholding ...

journal_title：Health communication

authors： Stivers T

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Transgender persons represent a highly diverse group of individuals who have been historically underserved, despite being disproportionately at risk for HIV (human immunodeficiency virus) and other health conditions. Despite the need for more research on transgender health issues, no review of online transgender-relat...

journal_title：Health communication

authors： Horvath KJ,Iantaffi A,Grey JA,Bockting W

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite its potential, the use of e-mail for physician-patient communication has not been widely adopted. Our purpose was to survey the experiences of physicians who are early adopters of the technology. Physicians, identified through a professional Internet information portal, completed a survey, including an assessm...

journal_title：Health communication

authors： Houston TK,Sands DZ,Nash BR,Ford DE

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Over the last decade, Botswana has been identified as a model for countries fighting against annihilation from HIV/AIDS. The country had the highest rate of HIV infections in the world in 2000, but by the end of Festus G. Mogae's presidential term in 2008 Botswana's situation had improved significantly, as residents w...

journal_title：Health communication

authors： Jensen RE,Williams EA,Holyoak IC,Shorter S

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00