Epistemic Egocentrism and Processing of Vaccine Misinformation (Vis-à-vis Scientific Evidence): The Case of Vaccine-Autism Link.

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：:Climate change is one of the most serious and pervasive challenges facing us today. Our changing climate has implications not only for the ecosystems upon which we depend, but also for human health. Health communication scholars are well-positioned to aid in the mitigation of and response to climate change and its hea...

journal_title：Health communication

authors： Chadwick AE

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Alzheimer's disease is growing in incidence and prevalence in the developed world. Rates have been increasing as populations have been aging. There are still many unknowns regarding prevention, causes, and treatments. The purpose of this article is to analyze the portrayal of Alzheimer's in the highest-circulation mas...

journal_title：Health communication

authors： Clarke JN

更新日期：2006-01-01 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：:Protection Motivation Theory (PMT) holds that individuals under threat base their protection decisions on threat and coping appraisals. In the case of preventable communicable diseases, the theory holds that motivation for vaccination will be higher the more alarming a person's threat appraisals and the more promising...

journal_title：Health communication

authors： Schulz PJ,Hartung U

更新日期：2020-06-10 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：: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：:This article explores the functions of personal celebrity health narratives in the public sphere. This study examines data about 157 celebrities, including athletes, actors, musicians, and politicians, who have shared private information regarding a personal health situation (or that of a loved one) with others in the...

journal_title：Health communication

authors： Beck CS,Aubuchon SM,McKenna TP,Ruhl S,Simmons N

更新日期：2014-01-01 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：:Patient-provider communication is a critical component of healthcare and is associated with treatment quality and outcomes for women with breast cancer. This qualitative study examines similarities and differences in patient perspectives of communication needs between Black and White breast cancer survivors. We conduc...

journal_title：Health communication

authors： Anderson JN,Graff JC,Krukowski RA,Schwartzberg L,Vidal GA,Waters TM,Paladino AJ,Jones TN,Blue R,Kocak M,Graetz I

更新日期：2020-04-26 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：: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：: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：: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：:This study looks at media portrayals of sexual health through the popular HBO television show Girls. This rhetorical criticism of Girls delineates two emergent narrative themes. First, the show repeatedly discusses human papillomavirus (HPV) in terms of its severity, but it oscillates in terms of representing the degr...

journal_title：Health communication

authors： Rogers B

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：:As frontline caregivers, nurses play a central role in the coordination and delivery of family-centered care (FCC) in neonatal intensive care units (NICUs). Nurses see first-hand the fear, uncertainty, and anxiety parents experience due to unfamiliar and intimidating elements of neonatal care and the NICU environment....

journal_title：Health communication

authors： Gilstrap CM

更新日期：2020-07-08 00:00:00

abstract：:College student alcohol consumption is pervasive and problematic at most U.S. college and university campuses. This study focuses on understanding college students who consume high levels of alcohol, providing healthy insight into what have been perceived by researchers as unhealthy behaviors. Researchers conducted 6 ...

journal_title：Health communication

authors： Casper MF,Child JT,Gilmour D,McIntyre KA,Pearson JC

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Scholars have examined how news media frame events, including responsibility for causing and fixing problems, and how these frames inform public judgment. This study analyzed 281 newspaper articles about a controversial medical study linking the measles, mumps, and rubella (MMR) vaccination with autism. Given criticis...

journal_title：Health communication

authors： Holton A,Weberling B,Clarke CE,Smith MJ

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Adolescents need access to interactive and high-quality online health information about strategies to reduce their risk for non-communicable diseases (NCDs). This study aimed to evaluate the quality, readability and interactivity of webpages with adolescent-specific information on NCD risk factors. Included web pages ...

journal_title：Health communication

authors： Ruan S,Raeside R,Singleton A,Redfern J,Partridge SR

更新日期：2020-01-22 00:00:00

abstract：:The role of tobacco marketing in tobacco use, particularly among the vulnerable ethnic and socioeconomic sub-populations is a regulatory priority of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. There currently exist both ethnic and socioeconomic disparities in the use of tobacco products. Monitoring such inequalities in exp...

journal_title：Health communication

authors： Moran MB,Heley K,Pierce JP,Niaura R,Strong D,Abrams D

更新日期：2019-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Health communication scholars are uniquely positioned to examine the ways in which individuals organize to address current and future exigencies related to social ills. In particular, organizations are key sites in understanding our health decisions related to food choice. From a young age, children develop habits of ...

journal_title：Health communication

authors： Okamoto KE

更新日期：2017-08-01 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：: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：: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：:Flu remains a prevalent public health issue and the flu vaccine uptake remains low. This study examined the behavioral consequences of first- and second-level agenda setting by testing the effects of exposure to flu-related news coverage and different frames on flu vaccine uptake, while controlling for confounding soc...

journal_title：Health communication

authors： Xu Z,Ellis L,Laffidy M

更新日期：2020-09-14 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：:In the era of evidence-based public health promotion and planning, the use of maps as a form of evidence to communicate about the multiple determinants of cancer is on the rise. Geographic information systems and mapping technologies make future proliferation of this strategy likely. Yet disease maps as a communicatio...

journal_title：Health communication

authors： Parrott R,Hopfer S,Ghetian C,Lengerich E

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Increasingly, health communication scholars are attending to how hospital built environments shape communication, patient care processes, and patient outcomes. This multimethod study was conducted on two floors of a newly designed urban hospital. Nine focus groups interviews were conducted with 35 health care professi...

journal_title：Health communication

authors： Real K,Bardach SH,Bardach DR

更新日期：2017-12-01 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