Actions Speak Louder than Words: How Characters' Effectiveness as Message Sources Depend on Their Story Experiences.

abstract：:This study aimed to investigate how health professionals (HPs) communicate about weight with their patients. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with 33 health professionals (7 family physicians, 13 nurse practitioners, and 13 dietitians) working in multidisciplinary healthcare settings in Canada. Thematic analy...

journal_title：Health communication

authors： Aboueid S,Ahmed R,Jasinska M,Pouliot C,Hermosura BJ,Bourgeault I,Giroux I

更新日期：2020-12-14 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：:We investigated whether presenting anti-binge drinking health campaign messages in different message framing and evidence types influences college students' intention to avoid binge drinking, based on prospect theory (PT) and exemplification theory. A 2 (message framing: loss-framed message/gain-framed message) X 2 (e...

journal_title：Health communication

authors： Kang H,Lee MJ

更新日期：2018-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study assesses caregivers' perceived level of open communication about illness and death with their terminally ill relatives and examines the contribution of caregivers' characteristics and situational variables to the explanation of open communication. A total of 236 primary caregivers of terminal cancer patient...

journal_title：Health communication

authors： Bachner YG,Carmel S

更新日期：2009-09-01 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：: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：:This multisite, qualitative study of 78 family-pair dyads provides rich data on the reasons people cite for (not) wanting to sign an organ donor card in the context of family conversations. In this study, dyads were videotaped as they discussed 8 questions pertaining to their views on organ donation, beginning with th...

journal_title：Health communication

authors： Morgan SE,Harrison TR,Afifi WA,Long SD,Stephenson MT

更新日期：2008-01-01 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：:Social media poses a threat to public health by facilitating the spread of misinformation. At the same time, however, social media offers a promising avenue to stem the distribution of false claims - as evidenced by real-time corrections, crowdsourced fact-checking, and algorithmic tagging. Despite the growing attempt...

journal_title：Health communication

authors： Walter N,Brooks JJ,Saucier CJ,Suresh S

更新日期：2020-08-06 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

abstract：:This study sought to identify indicators of cultural competence in 670 news stories covering obesity by four urban news organizations: two mainstream newspapers and two ethnic newspapers serving the African-American and Hispanic communities. Through semantic network analysis, the research found that the news organizat...

journal_title：Health communication

authors： Garyantes DM,Murphy P

更新日期：2019-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Men's involvement makes a difference in maternal health. Well-informed and supportive men may encourage their wives to get more complete and regular antenatal care. In much of sub-Saharan Africa, however, men's involvement with their wives' health during pregnancy is minimal. This study investigated men's response to ...

journal_title：Health communication

authors： Kayongo CX,Miller AN

更新日期：2019-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The media have the power to sway public perception of health issues by choosing what to publish and the context in which to present information. The media may influence an individual's tendency to overestimate the risk of some health issues while underestimating the risk of others, ultimately influencing health choice...

journal_title：Health communication

authors： Berry TR,Wharf-Higgins J,Naylor PJ

更新日期：2007-01-01 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：: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：: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：: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：: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：:This study qualitatively examined how nurses, nurse practitioners, and nurse midwives construct the meaning of patient trust in their work caring for pregnant and laboring women. Twenty-two interviews were conducted with nurse participants employed at clinics, hospitals, and birth centers across Southeastern United St...

journal_title：Health communication

authors： Dalton ED,Pjesivac I,Eldredge S,Miller L

更新日期：2020-03-02 00:00:00

abstract：:The misuse of prescription stimulants among college undergraduates is a prevalent and dangerous problem on college campuses across the United States. Guided by a memorable messages framework, this research sought to examine the messages that college students recall about the misuse of prescription stimulants and exami...

journal_title：Health communication

authors： Crook B,Dailey RM

更新日期：2017-08-01 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：:A central assumption of many models of human behavior is that intention to perform a behavior is highly predictive of actual behavior. This article presents evidence that belies this notion. Based on a survey of 1,250 Philadelphia adults, a clear and consistent pattern emerged suggesting that beliefs related to domest...

journal_title：Health communication

authors： Nabi RL,Southwell B,Hornik R

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study engages with the culture-centered approach (CCA) to explore Chinese immigrant restaurant workers' perception of the U.S. health care system and their interactions with the health care system in interpreting meanings of health. Chinese restaurant workers are marginalized because of their struggles on the job...

journal_title：Health communication

authors： Gao H,Dutta M,Okoror T

更新日期：2016-01-01 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：:In this article, we combine narrative and visual elements - our experiences as scholars in reproductive justice, health communication, and border studies coupled with photos from reproductive justice activist marches we attended in El Paso and Houston - to advocate for a stronger coalition between health communication...

journal_title：Health communication

authors： Hinojosa Hernandez L,De Los Santos Upton S

更新日期：2020-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Infant mortality is associated with access to healthcare, knowledge, and health literacy. Text4baby, the largest national texting health initiative, seeks to address these factors. However, no research has examined the program's theoretical framework, an aspect that may impact its success. To address this gap, Text4ba...

journal_title：Health communication

authors： Aldoory L,Roberts EB,Bushar J,Assini-Meytin LC

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This article presents findings from the first study of cancer news coverage in a national sample of Black and general-audience newspapers. We compared 2,439 health news stories from 23 weekly Black newspapers to 2,767 health news stories from a constructed week sample of 12 daily general-audience newspapers, both coll...

journal_title：Health communication

authors： Cohen EL,Caburnay CA,Luke DA,Rodgers S,Cameron GT,Kreuter MW

更新日期：2008-09-01 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：: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：:Despite increased information-seeking by the public, a significant percentage of those diagnosed with a serious disease such as cancer report that they do not seek or receive health information beyond that given by health care providers. This study attempts to profile these nonseekers and study possible determinants o...

journal_title：Health communication

authors： Ramanadhan S,Viswanath K

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00