Justificatory Information Forefending in Digital Age: Self-Sealing Informational Conviction of Risky Health Behavior.

abstract：:During the past century, discoveries of microorganisms as causes of infections and antibiotics as effective therapeutic agents have contributed to significant gains in public health in many parts of the world. Health agencies worldwide are galvanizing attention toward antibiotic resistance, which is a major threat to ...

journal_title：Health communication

authors： Smith RA,M'ikanatha NM,Read AF

更新日期：2015-01-01 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 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：: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 growing number of pharmacists practice within interdisciplinary health care teams, leading pharmacy educators to place increased emphasis on the development of interprofessional collaboration skills. In the pharmacist-physician relationship, pharmacists' medication therapy recommendations (MTRs) are a recurrent and ...

journal_title：Health communication

authors： Denvir P,Brewer J

更新日期：2015-01-01 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：: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：:Effective communications play a significant role in environments where health care is provided. A review of the available literature did not yield a valid scale for evaluation of operating room nurse-doctor communication. Accordingly, the present study is an attempt at development and psychometric evaluation of a prof...

journal_title：Health communication

authors： Torabizadeh C,Bahmani T,Molazem Z,Moayedi SA

更新日期：2019-10-01 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：: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：: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

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：: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：: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：: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：: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：:Despite the fact that living organ donation has the great potential to reduce the shortage of transplantable organs, it is still surrounded by many misconceptions, ethical concerns, and myths. Research conducted to understand factors contributing to public misconceptions related to living organ donation is rare. This ...

journal_title：Health communication

authors： Zhuang J,Guidry A

更新日期：2020-08-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Latané and Darley's (1970) bystander intervention theory was used to model individuals' participation in two prosocial behaviors (organ donation, green living). It is argued that nonparticipants in prosocial helping are innocent bystanders who likely fail to notice the need, do not interpret the cause as an emergency,...

journal_title：Health communication

authors： Anker AE,Feeley TH

更新日期：2011-01-01 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：:The symposium articles address a variety of assumptions concerning interventions in which youth create prevention messaging. These articles help confirm that young people left to themselves are likely to engage in self-persuasion through such message creation but are less likely to create messages persuasive to others...

journal_title：Health communication

authors： Slater MD

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study investigated both smoking and nonsmoking undergraduates' reactions to an organization implementing a policy that either mandated or recommended that employees quit smoking. Undergraduate participants (N = 296) were randomly assigned to 1 of 2 (high vs. low severity of a smoke-free policy implementation) x 2...

journal_title：Health communication

authors： Dalsey E,Park HS

更新日期：2009-01-01 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：: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：:The social skills deficit vulnerability model predicts that people with inadequate social skills are at risk for a range of psychosocial problems, especially when confronted with stress. People with poor social skills often experience stress and loneliness and these two constructs were tested as potential pathways by ...

journal_title：Health communication

authors： Segrin C

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pediatricians' communication behavior affects a variety of outcomes in both children and their parents. This study analyzes how speech complexity and interruptions as indicators of accommodative behaviors relate to parental recall of medical information and to their satisfaction with the medical encounter. We recruite...

journal_title：Health communication

authors： Gemmiti M,Hamed S,Wildhaber J,Pharisa C,Klumb PL

更新日期：2021-01-13 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：:Although it ran on multiple mass media for the better part of a year, end line evaluation of the Nimechill youth abstinence campaign in Kenya indicated that exposure to the campaign had no relationship to youth decisions to defer sexual debut. One possible explanation of this lack of association could be that target a...

journal_title：Health communication

authors： Muraya JG,Neville Miller A,Mjomba L

更新日期：2011-09-01 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：:The first quantitative, specific recommendations for sitting time at work were released in June 2015. This paper examines the implications of news coverage received by this position statement. Media reports about statement published May, 31-June, 29, 2015 were analyzed according to five recommendations and three cavea...

journal_title：Health communication

authors： Chau JY,McGill B,Freeman B,Bonfiglioli C,Bauman A

更新日期：2018-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although having a mental illness has become common, many people tend to hide their illness and avoid seeking treatment. One of the reasons for not seeking treatment is the stigma of mental illness. Celebrity confessions about their experiences of mental illness can reduce such stigma, because the public obtains more k...

journal_title：Health communication

authors： Lee SY

更新日期：2019-08-01 00:00:00