Weight Communication: How Do Health Professionals Communicate about Weight with Their Patients in Primary Care Settings?

abstract：:Utilizing primary socialization theory (PST) and longitudinal survey data from 381 Latina/o sixth- through eighth-grade students, we hypothesized that four types of parent anti-substance use messages (i.e., parents' own past substance use, religious beliefs, respect for family, and peer resistance) would discourage La...

journal_title：Health communication

authors： Kam JA,Pérez Torres D

更新日期：2018-06-01 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：: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：: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：: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：:Health communication researchers have become increasingly interested in factors that predict support for health-related policy. Previous studies have shown that judgments about issues that are influenced by political ideology can be modified by the depth with which receivers process messages related to that issue. In ...

journal_title：Health communication

authors： Lee TK,Shapiro MA,Niederdeppe J

更新日期：2014-09-01 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：:The presence of companions adds complexity to healthcare interactions. Few studies have characterized challenges arising when interactions involve healthcare professionals (HCPs), patients, and companions, or how those challenges are managed. Using conversation analysis, we examined recorded episodes where patients an...

journal_title：Health communication

authors： Pino M,Doehring A,Parry R

更新日期：2020-09-22 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：:Research on the influence of media on youths' sexual behavior in sub-Saharan Africa has focused almost entirely on the effects of multimedia health communication campaigns and edutainment programming. Scholarly literature is nearly silent about the influence of the multiple hours that young people in many sub-Saharan ...

journal_title：Health communication

authors： Ngula KW,Miller AN,Mberia HK

更新日期：2018-06-01 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：: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：:Scholarship in the field of health communication is broad, with interdisciplinary contributions from researchers trained in a variety of fields including communication, nursing, medicine, pharmacy, public health, and social work. In this paper, we explore the role of "health communication boundary spanners" (HCBS), in...

journal_title：Health communication

authors： Hoffmann-Longtin K,Kerr AM,Shaunfield S,Koenig CJ,Bylund CL,Clayton MF

更新日期：2020-12-08 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：:A 2 (Threat: high vs. low) × 2 (Frame: gain vs. loss) × 2 (Choice: yes vs. no) × 2 (Behavior: prevention vs. detection) factorial design Web-based experiment (N = 814) was conducted to investigate the impact of threat to freedom, message frame, and behavioral choice as antecedents to psychological reactance. The inter...

journal_title：Health communication

authors： Shen L

更新日期：2015-01-01 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：:Extending the effectiveness of media-based campaigns into interpersonal networks has been a long concern for studies on persuasive messages, yet there is much to understand about why people attempt to persuade others to engage in health-related behaviors. This study investigated two alternative predictors of interpers...

journal_title：Health communication

authors： Smith RA,Zhu X,Shartle K,Glick L,M'ikanatha NM

更新日期：2017-08-01 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 1988, Surgeon General C. Everett Koop published "Understanding AIDS," the nation's first and only direct mailing sent to every private home in the country. His appeals therein were driven by what we label authoritative metaphors. Communicated by and/or attributed to persons of authority, authoritative metaphors cap...

journal_title：Health communication

authors： Jensen RE,King AS

更新日期：2013-01-01 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：: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：: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：: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：: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：: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：: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：:The quality of interaction between hearing health professionals and patients is one prominent, yet under-studied explanation for the low adherence in acquiring and using a hearing aid. This study describes two different ways of introducing hearing aid to the patients at their first visits at the hearing clinic: an inq...

journal_title：Health communication

authors： Ruusuvuori J,Aaltonen T,Lonka E,Salmenlinna I,Laakso M

更新日期：2020-08-01 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：: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：: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