Predicting continuance-findings from a longitudinal study of older adults using an eHealth newsletter.

abstract：:The increasing popularity of computer-mediated support groups (CMSGs) has drawn scholarly attention in recent decades. Fifteen empirical controlled studies have been published since Rains and Young's meta-analysis, showing mixed results, with a large variation of effect sizes ranging from -.77 to 1.33 in Cohen's d. To...

journal_title：Health communication

authors： Yang Q

更新日期：2020-02-01 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：:Grounded in the culture-centered approach that emphasizes dialogic engagement with communities at the margins to disrupt mainstream health discourses, this article explores articulations of health by the Burmese refugee community in the United States post resettlement. Due to forced migration, often fleeing violent po...

journal_title：Health communication

authors： Kumar R

更新日期：2020-01-13 00:00:00

abstract：:This article examines whether the persuasive potential of modality interactivity on anti-smoking websites can be harnessed by adding agency affordances, such as the like, comment, and share features. Using a 2 × 2 factorial experiment with a current smoker sample (N = 154), we investigated the interaction effects betw...

journal_title：Health communication

authors： Oh J,Kang H,Sudarshan S,Lee JA

更新日期：2020-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite concerns about online health information and efforts to improve its credibility, how users evaluate and utilize such information presented in Web sites and online discussion groups may involve different evaluative mechanisms. This study examined credibility and homophily as two underlying mechanisms for social...

journal_title：Health communication

authors： Wang Z,Walther JB,Pingree S,Hawkins RP

更新日期：2008-07-01 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：:The emergence of viral diseases such as Ebola virus disease, Zika virus disease, and the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) has posed considerable challenges to health care systems around the world. Public health strategy to address emerging infectious diseases has depended in part on human behavior change and yet the per...

journal_title：Health communication

authors： Southwell BG,Kelly BJ,Bann CM,Squiers LB,Ray SE,McCormack LA

更新日期：2020-12-01 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

abstract：:Breast cancer survivors must manage chronic side effects of original treatment. To manage these symptoms, communication must include both biomedical and contextual lifestyle factors. Sixty breast cancer survivors and 6 providers were recruited to test a conceptual model developed from uncertainty in illness theory and...

journal_title：Health communication

authors： Clayton MF,Dudley WN,Musters A

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Memorable messages about breast cancer sent by different sources, such as friends and family members, were analyzed for the action tendency emotions that they evoked. Negative emotions of fear, sadness, and anger, and positive emotions of hope and relief were analyzed for their associations with prevention and detecti...

journal_title：Health communication

authors： Smith SW,Hamel LM,Kotowski MR,Nazione S,Laplante C,Atkin CK,Stohl C,Skubisz C

更新日期：2010-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Social media have recently gained attention as a potential health campaign tool. This study examines this line of expectation concerning the role social media may play in health campaigns by testing an integrated health campaign model that combines insights from research on social media-specific perceptions and commun...

journal_title：Health communication

authors： Yoo SW,Kim J,Lee Y

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The public's lack of understanding and the public's misconceptions about autism in China contribute to the underdiagnosis and undertreatment of the disorder and the stigma associated with it. Mass media are the primary channel through which people learn about autism. This article examines how leading newspapers in Chi...

journal_title：Health communication

authors： Bie B,Tang L

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A number of scholars have speculated that religious people will be less likely than others to ascribe either fatalistic or deterministic powers to genes, opting instead to leave freedom as a choice for both God and humans. This research investigates the role of religious faith (RF) on behavioral health outcomes associ...

journal_title：Health communication

authors： Parrott R,Silk K,Raup Krieger J,Harris T,Condit C

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This research examines the sources from which U.S. consumers obtain their food safety information. It seeks to determine differences in the types of information sources used by U.S. consumers of different sociodemographic background, as well as the relationships between the types of information sources used and food s...

journal_title：Health communication

authors： Nan X,Verrill L,Kim J

更新日期：2017-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nowadays, the use of digital technology is an important issue that should be addressed during the treatment of people who have eating disorders. The involvement or absence of this issue reflects the understanding, experience, and atttude of health-care professionals toward their clients' use of technology. The aim of ...

journal_title：Health communication

authors： Šmahelová M,Čevelíček M,Nehybková E,Šmahel D,Čermák I

更新日期：2019-01-01 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：: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：:In the United States, young people (ages 15-24 years) are disproportionately affected by human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and other sexually transmitted diseases (STDs), due at least in part to inadequate or incorrect HIV/STD-related knowledge, attitudes, beliefs, and behavioral intentions (KABI). Comic book narrati...

journal_title：Health communication

authors： Willis LA,Kachur R,Castellanos TJ,Nichols K,Mendoza MCB,Gaul ZJ,Spikes P,Gamayo AC,Durham MD,LaPlace L,Straw J,Staatz C,Buge H,Hogben M,Robinson S,Brooks J,Sutton MY

更新日期：2018-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:With certain populations in the United States at higher risk for obesity than other populations, public health advocates have attempted to draw attention to these inequalities to galvanize support for obesity-mitigation policies. Yet research comparing different messages about social inequalities indicates that not al...

journal_title：Health communication

authors： Skurka C

更新日期：2019-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Health researchers acknowledge a limited understanding of the social context of adolescents regarding their communication and decision making about sexually transmitted diseases (STDs). Using in-depth interviews, this study examines 18-year-old women regarding their self-concepts about STD communication, including the...

journal_title：Health communication

authors： Rouner D,Lindsey R

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This article considers the narrative testimonial as a rhetorical form in the service of public judgment, with particular attention to the witness's credibility and communicative competence. The author argues that a narrator and witness, as a participant-observer of the events recounted, must generate a story that does...

journal_title：Health communication

authors： Kenny RW

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Scholars have examined how news media frame events, including responsibility for causing and fixing problems, and how these frames inform public judgment. This study analyzed 281 newspaper articles about a controversial medical study linking the measles, mumps, and rubella (MMR) vaccination with autism. Given criticis...

journal_title：Health communication

authors： Holton A,Weberling B,Clarke CE,Smith MJ

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This article explores the functions of personal celebrity health narratives in the public sphere. This study examines data about 157 celebrities, including athletes, actors, musicians, and politicians, who have shared private information regarding a personal health situation (or that of a loved one) with others in the...

journal_title：Health communication

authors： Beck CS,Aubuchon SM,McKenna TP,Ruhl S,Simmons N

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study reports results of a study that examined the extent to which contextual factors (i.e., income level and number of children) might predict a mother's mental health quality, which, in turn, may predict level of engagement with Facebook. Results supported this model, finding that mothers with more children and...

journal_title：Health communication

authors： Kaufmann R,Buckner MM,Ledbetter AM

更新日期：2017-08-01 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：: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 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：:My post-structuralist feminist reading of the antenatal and birthing practices of women (N = 25) living in a basti in India makes visible how the meanings of maternal experiences constituted as our ways open discursive spaces for the mothers and dais as procreators to: challenge (i.e., question the authority of), co-o...

journal_title：Health communication

authors： Agarwal V

更新日期：2018-04-01 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：:Past research has examined the effects of entertainment narratives on story-related behaviors, but most has focused primarily on dramatic genres rather than comedy. The present study examines how the presence or absence of pregnancy-related humor influences viewers' counterarguing, perceived severity, and intentions t...

journal_title：Health communication

authors： Moyer-Gusé E,Mahood C,Brookes S

更新日期：2011-12-01 00:00:00