Correlates of Cancer Information Overload: Focusing on Individual Ability and Motivation.

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：:Communication scholars have raised concerns that the media present contradictory or conflicting information on health, science, and political issues, speculating that such information may have adverse effects on public cognitions, affect, and behaviors. However, the evidence base for the effects of contradictory messa...

journal_title：Health communication

authors： Lee CJ,Nagler RH,Wang N

更新日期：2018-04-01 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：:While it has been well established that breastfeeding provides the best nourishment for children, few women achieve the recommended breastfeeding duration. Negative media messages have been identified as one explanation for the lack of individual and public support for breastfeeding. This study explored the influence ...

journal_title：Health communication

authors： Foss KA,Blake K

更新日期：2019-08-01 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：:Research on front-of-package (FOP) labeling demonstrates that nutrient content claims (e.g., "low fat") can lead consumers to perceive foods as healthier in general-effects that have been interpreted using halo effect theories of impression formation. Extending this work, the present study investigates whether these e...

journal_title：Health communication

authors： Fernan C,Schuldt JP,Niederdeppe J

更新日期：2018-12-01 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：:The present experimental study tested the effects of appearance framing of health advice on adolescent girls' state self-objectification, appearance anxiety, and preference for appearance-enhancing products. The stimuli consisted of informative YouTube-style videos about doing yoga, drinking water, or using sunscreen,...

journal_title：Health communication

authors： Aubrey JS,Speno AG,Gamble H

更新日期：2020-03-01 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：:With the increasing popularity and accessibility of online healthcare service and the continuous development of interactive digital communication, online medical consultation is prevalent in contemporary China. As a new genre, online medical consultation deserves in-depth exploration from a non-English discursive pers...

journal_title：Health communication

authors： Mao Y,Zhao X

更新日期：2020-05-01 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：: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：:In this article, I examine competing characterizations of Karen Ann Quinlan's life and the role these characterizations played in shaping public attitudes toward euthanasia and medicine in America. I discuss the reasons Quinlan's coma brought forth radically contrasted narratives about who she was by applying Burke's ...

journal_title：Health communication

authors： Kenny RW

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study evaluated physical activity Web sites to determine quality, accuracy, and consistency with principles of the extended parallel process model (EPPM). Three keyword searches were conducted using 4 search engines to find a sample of N = 41 Web sites. Three raters evaluated the Web sites using the JAMA benchmar...

journal_title：Health communication

authors： Bonnar-Kidd KK,Black DR,Mattson M,Coster D

更新日期：2009-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This research examines the interaction effect of message framing (gain vs. loss) and perceived susceptibility (i.e., perceived likelihood that one's child is at risk of contracting HPV) on African American parents' intentions to vaccinate their children against HPV. Results of an experiment (N = 193) in which parents ...

journal_title：Health communication

authors： Nan X,Madden K,Richards A,Holt C,Wang MQ,Tracy K

更新日期：2016-07-01 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：:Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) continue to affect a growing number of women. Because social support is essential to both physical and mental health, this study was designed to explore the social support challenges of women living with HIV. Using a grounded theory appr...

journal_title：Health communication

authors： Peterson JL

更新日期：2010-07-01 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：:As the third largest employment sector in the United States, nonprofits work to fill gaps left by the government and for-profit sectors. Because they work with disadvantaged populations, mission-driven nonprofits are afforded an opportunity to empower clients. This study uses Planned Parenthood as a point of entry for...

journal_title：Health communication

authors： Sellnow-Richmond DD,Novak JM,Seeger MW

更新日期：2020-06-30 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：:Joking is an important communication behavior that helps people cope with colorectal cancer and colonoscopy screening. However, whether joking serves a beneficial or maladaptive function in the context of colorectal cancer screening remains unknown. The lack of a valid scale impedes our understanding of how joking inf...

journal_title：Health communication

authors： Peng W,Huang Q,Lun D,Carcioppolo N

更新日期：2020-11-16 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：: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：:This article uses conversation analysis to develop a typology of questions that physicians use to solicit patients' problems and then tests question-format effects on patients' subsequent problem presentations. Data are videotapes of 302 primary-, acute-, and outpatient-care visits involving 77 physicians in 41 urban ...

journal_title：Health communication

authors： Heritage J,Robinson JD

更新日期：2006-01-01 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：:Guided largely by the Extended Parallel Process Model, the Arizona Attorney General's Social Networking Safety Promotion and Cyberbullying Prevention presentation attempts to shape, change, and reinforce middle school students' perceptions, attitudes, and intentions related to these important social issues. This study...

journal_title：Health communication

authors： Roberto AJ,Eden J,Savage MW,Ramos-Salazar L,Deiss DM

更新日期：2014-01-01 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：:Peer crowd identification consistently predicts an adolescent's smoking behavior. As such, several interventions have targeted adolescents and young adults based on their identification with a specific crowd (e.g., Hipsters). This study uses a controlled experimental design to isolate and test the effect of peer crowd...

journal_title：Health communication

authors： Moran MB,Sussman S

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Both global obesity prevalence rates and media attention to obesity have increased significantly in recent years. The current study examined the representation of obesity in The Irish Times, from 1997 to 2009. A quantitative content analysis was conducted on 479 articles to examine how the causes, consequences, and so...

journal_title：Health communication

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

更新日期：2012-01-01 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