Men's Response to Obulamu Campaign Messages about Male Involvement in Maternal Health: Mukono District, Uganda.

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：:Although exposure to direct-to-consumer prescription drug advertising (DTCA) is reported to influence the public's beliefs about diseases, no research has investigated how DTCA may affect the extent of consumers' optimistic bias about the future risk of diseases. Based on a survey with members of an online consumer pa...

journal_title：Health communication

authors： Park JS,Ju I,Kim KE

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In Germany, the Internet is gaining increasing importance for laypeople as a source of health information, including information about vaccination. While previous research has focused on the characteristics of online information about vaccination, this study investigated the influence of relevant user-specific cogniti...

journal_title：Health communication

authors： Kessler SH,Zillich AF

更新日期：2019-09-01 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：:This study explores moderating roles of primary social influences in the relationship between adolescent triers' and experimenters' self-reported exposure to antismoking messages and their smoking intentions. The theoretical arguments are drawn from primary socialization theory, group socialization theory, and the soc...

journal_title：Health communication

authors： Paek HJ

更新日期：2008-11-01 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：:When patients with intellectual disabilities (ID) attend a General Practice annual health check, current guidance directs health-care practitioners (HCPs) to involve them as much as possible as informants on their health. However, previous research based on interviews with participants suggests that during health cons...

journal_title：Health communication

authors： Chinn D,Rudall D

更新日期：2019-12-16 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：: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：:This investigation sought to advance the extended parallel process model in important ways by testing associations among the strengths of efficacy and threat appeals with fear as well as two outcomes of fear-control processing, psychological reactance and message minimization. Within the context of print ads admonishi...

journal_title：Health communication

authors： Quick BL,LaVoie NR,Reynolds-Tylus T,Martinez-Gonzalez A,Skurka C

更新日期：2018-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This essay explores the role of art and storytelling in organizing expressive and vocational opportunities for individuals with developmental disabilities. Passion Works is a non-profit organization that fosters collaborative art-making among people with differing abilities. Guided by an asset-based approach titled th...

journal_title：Health communication

authors： Walker T,Mitchell P,Dlouhy S

更新日期：2020-06-01 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：:We tested whether the personality trait of agreeableness predicts different individual reactions to the level of nonverbal affiliativeness shown by a physician, in the context of a simulated bad news delivery. We predicted that individuals with high levels of agreeableness would react better to a physician adopting a ...

journal_title：Health communication

authors： Cousin G,Schmid Mast M

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study, we used a normative theoretical perspective to examine the relationship between uncertainty management and support in the lives of organ transplant patients. We conducted in-depth interviews with 8 pretransplant and 30 posttransplant patients, including individuals who were waiting for or had received a...

journal_title：Health communication

authors： Scott AM,Martin SC,Stone AM,Brashers DE

更新日期：2011-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To date, there have been efforts toward creating better health information access for Deaf American Sign Language (ASL) users. However, the usability of websites with access to health information in ASL has not been evaluated. Our article focuses on the usability of four health websites that include ASL videos. We see...

journal_title：Health communication

authors： Kushalnagar P,Naturale J,Paludneviciene R,Smith SR,Werfel E,Doolittle R,Jacobs S,DeCaro J

更新日期：2015-01-01 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：: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：:This paper assesses the relationship between patient-health care provider (HCP) interaction and health behaviors. In total, 109 Native American patients diagnosed with diabetes mellitus were enrolled in a Web-based diabetes monitoring system. The system tracks patient-HCP interaction, and in total 924 personal message...

journal_title：Health communication

authors： Robinson JD,Turner JW,Levine B,Tian Y

更新日期：2011-03-01 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：:The co-creation and sharing of documentation of person-centered care is important, but challenging in clinical practice. Online access to health records is considered essential to increase patient participation and empowerment in person-centered care provision. The aims of this study were (1) to identify the extent of...

journal_title：Health communication

authors： Heckemann B,Chaaya M,Jakobsson Ung E,Olsson DS,Jakobsson S

更新日期：2020-11-19 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：:The more manga (Japanese graphic novels) communicate medical information, the more people are likely to be influenced by manga. We investigated through an Internet search using Google the characteristics of medical manga published in Japan, defined as those in which the main character is a medical professional and tha...

journal_title：Health communication

authors： Kishi Y,Matsumura T,Murishige N,Kodama Y,Hatanaka N,Takita M,Sakamoto K,Hamaki T,Kusumi E,Kobayashi K,Yuji K,Narimatsu H,Kami M

更新日期：2011-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study examined proposed direct and mediating relationships in the Structural Influence Model (SIM) of Communication within the chronic disease context. Using data from the Annenberg National Health Communication Survey (N = 14,472), we tested the potential mediating roles of information seeking, information scann...

journal_title：Health communication

authors： Bigsby E,Hovick SR

更新日期：2018-03-01 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 growing body of research has given attention to issues surrounding genetic testing, including expanded carrier screening (ECS), an elective medical test that allows planning or expecting parents to consider the potential occurrence of genetic diseases and disorders in their children. These studies have noted the rol...

journal_title：Health communication

authors： Holton AE,Canary HE,Wong B

更新日期：2017-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Narrative mapping is a newly emergent form of participant-generated visual methodology. This essay differentiates narrative mapping from other visual methodologies and from other genres of mapping by examining a shared epistemological framework undergirding both the construction of narratives and the crafting of maps....

journal_title：Health communication

authors： Thompson M

更新日期：2020-03-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Information and communication technologies can be a valuable tool for enhancing health communication. However, not everyone is utilising the wide suite of digital opportunities. This disparity has the potential to exacerbate existing social and health inequalities, particularly among vulnerable groups such as those wh...

journal_title：Health communication

authors： Borg K,Boulet M,Smith L,Bragge P

更新日期：2019-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of this investigation is to determine the relative contribution of five types of social support to improved patient health. This analysis suggests that emotional and esteem social support messages are associated with improved patient health as measured by a decrease in average blood glucose levels among di...

journal_title：Health communication

authors： Robinson JD,Turner JW,Tian Y,Neustadtl A,Mun SK,Levine B

更新日期：2019-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Healthcare today provides an especially rich context for the intertwined transformation of work and the technologies of work, which need to be understood in tandem. Advances in artificial intelligence, robotics, the internet of things, and computational science promise to transform healthcare. The slow speed of organi...

journal_title：Health communication

authors： Barbour JB

更新日期：2020-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Improving awareness and mitigating stigma related to depression have been a concern to both health communicators and practitioners. This study conducted a 2 (narrative vs. non-narrative) × 2 (high controllability vs. low controllability) experiment (N = 242) to test the interaction effects of narrative persuasion and ...

journal_title：Health communication

authors： Zhang N,Wen TJ

更新日期：2020-02-24 00:00:00