Self-Care and Health-Information-Seeking Behaviours of Diabetic Patients in Singapore.

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：:The meanings associated with prostate cancer were studied in contemporary mass print media. The study includes both manifest and latent content analysis of a period of approximately 2 decades, from 1974 to 1995. The manifest analysis revealed a primary emphasis on the importance of early detection. The latent analysis...

journal_title：Health communication

authors： Clarke JN

更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Building on channel complementarity theory and media-system dependency theory, this study explores the impact of conflict-oriented news coverage of health issues on information seeking online. Using Google search data as a measure of behavior, we demonstrate that controversial news coverage of the U.S. Preventive Serv...

journal_title：Health communication

authors： Weeks BE,Friedenberg LM,Southwell BG,Slater JS

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Drawing upon an optimal matching model framework, this study examined weak tie support preference and coping style as predictors of credibility perceptions among members of health-related computer-mediated support groups. One hundred and thirty-five participants from various health-related online support groups respon...

journal_title：Health communication

authors： Wright KB,Rains SA

更新日期：2014-01-01 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：: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：:In this study, we tested whether physicians' ability to adapt their nonverbal behavior to their patients' preferences for a paternalistic interaction style is related to positive consultation outcomes. We hypothesized that the more physicians adapt their nonverbal dominance behavior to match their patients' preference...

journal_title：Health communication

authors： Carrard V,Schmid Mast M,Cousin G

更新日期：2016-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study examined whether social competence mediates the association between family communication and undergraduate males' body satisfaction. Male undergraduate students (N = 442) completed an online survey assessing their perceptions of mothers' as well as fathers' family communication patterns (FCPs), social compe...

journal_title：Health communication

authors： Taniguchi E

更新日期：2018-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:From the earliest studies of doctor-patient interaction (Byrne & Long, 1976), it has been recognized that treatment recommendations may be expressed in more or less authoritative ways, based on their design and delivery. There are clear differences between I'm going to start you on X and We can give you X to try and W...

journal_title：Health communication

authors： Stivers T,Heritage J,Barnes RK,McCabe R,Thompson L,Toerien M

更新日期：2018-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Electronic cigarettes (e-cigarettes) have gained popularity in the United States, and marketers are using advertising to recruit new users to their products. Despite outright bans on traditional cigarette advertisements, e-cigarettes have no specific regulations. This study uses framing theory to explore the themes in...

journal_title：Health communication

authors： Willis E,Haught MJ,Morris Ii DL

更新日期：2017-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of this study was to understand health information sources of individuals and families impacted by a cancer diagnosis. Overall, the findings support the Freimuth, Stein, and Kean (1989) model of health information acquisition. The cancer patients and family members who participated reported having signific...

journal_title：Health communication

authors： Pecchioni LL,Sparks L

更新日期：2007-01-01 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：:Communication is key to hospital emergency department (ED) caregiving. Interventions in ED processes (and health care organizing in general) have struggled when they have ignored the professional role expectations that enable and constrain providers with patients and each other. Informed by a communication as design (...

journal_title：Health communication

authors： Dean M,Gill R,Barbour JB

更新日期：2016-12-01 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：: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：:This study proposes the idea of justificatory information forefending, a cognitive process by which individuals accept information that confirms their preexisting health beliefs, and reject information that is dissonant with their attitudes. In light of the sheer volume of often contradictory information related to he...

journal_title：Health communication

authors： Kim JN,Oh YW,Krishna A

更新日期：2018-01-01 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：:Interactive media such as the Web have become a popular and important vehicle for communicating health information. However, little attention has been given to theorizing and empirically testing the effects of interactive media and the theoretical construct of interactivity. In this paper, we clearly identify and defi...

journal_title：Health communication

authors： Kim H,Stout PA

更新日期：2010-03-01 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：: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 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：:End-of-life situations are fraught with challenges for patients, family members, and individuals working at the patient's bedside. Care workers must address needs of the patient, as well as his or her distressed family members. This article is an inductive investigation of care workers' (nurses, patient advocates, and...

journal_title：Health communication

authors： Hopeck P

更新日期：2018-10-01 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：: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：:Young sexual minority women (SMW) report worse sexual health outcomes in comparison to their heterosexual peers. One potential reason for this disparity could be SMW's lack of access to accurate and appropriate sexual health information. Many sexual minority youth report school-based sexual health curricula to be less...

journal_title：Health communication

authors： Flanders CE,Dinh RN,Pragg L,Dobinson C,Logie CH

更新日期：2020-04-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Recently, rates of HIV and AIDS are rapidly and disproportionately increasing among minority communities in the rural South. Culturally specific health communication about HIV and inclusion of minority voices in the administration and implementation of HIV programs have been found to be the most effective methods for ...

journal_title：Health communication

authors： Myrick R

更新日期：1998-01-01 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：:Although many health communication studies have substantiated the role of self-efficacy as one of the most proximal determinants of behavioral intention, a recent body of research has also shown that high self-efficacy does not always translate into intention to perform a recommended health behavior. Recognizing the c...

journal_title：Health communication

authors： Kim Y,Chung S,So J

更新日期：2020-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Loneliness is a psychological health issue related to deleterious physical health outcomes such as mortality and chronic disease. The aim of this research was to examine intergenerational transmissions of loneliness from mothers to adult child via a moderated mediation model of perceived familial social support and co...

journal_title：Health communication

authors： Curran T

更新日期：2019-09-01 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