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：: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：:Obesity stigma largely remains a socially acceptable bias with harmful outcomes for its victims. While many accounts have been put forward to explain the bias, the role of obesity etiology beliefs has received little scrutiny. The research examined the effect that beliefs about the psychological etiology of obesity ha...

journal_title：Health communication

authors： Khan SS,Tarrant M,Weston D,Shah P,Farrow C

更新日期：2018-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bariatric surgery patients often experience physical and psychosocial stressors, and difficulty adjusting to significant lifestyle changes. As a result, social support groups that provide patients with support, coping skills, and nutritional information are valuable components of bariatric care. Support group attendan...

journal_title：Health communication

authors： Atwood ME,Friedman A,Meisner BA,Cassin SE

更新日期：2018-05-01 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：: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 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：:In the United States, young people (ages 15-24 years) are disproportionately affected by human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and other sexually transmitted diseases (STDs), due at least in part to inadequate or incorrect HIV/STD-related knowledge, attitudes, beliefs, and behavioral intentions (KABI). Comic book narrati...

journal_title：Health communication

authors： Willis LA,Kachur R,Castellanos TJ,Nichols K,Mendoza MCB,Gaul ZJ,Spikes P,Gamayo AC,Durham MD,LaPlace L,Straw J,Staatz C,Buge H,Hogben M,Robinson S,Brooks J,Sutton MY

更新日期：2018-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Psychotherapy is commonly depicted in films. Films, then, help to inform the public about the nature of psychotherapy and psychotherapists. Although much has been written about the portrayal of psychotherapy in films, there has been little empirical investigation of films from the 21st century. The current study provi...

journal_title：Health communication

authors： Wahl O,Reiss M,Thompson CA

更新日期：2018-03-01 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：: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：: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 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：: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：: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：:Social support is an important factor that shapes how people cope with illness, and health-related communication among peers managing the same illness (network ties with experiential similarity) offers specialized information, resources, and emotional support. Facebook has become a ubiquitous part of many Americans' l...

journal_title：Health communication

authors： Gage-Bouchard EA,LaValley S,Mollica M,Beaupin LK

更新日期：2017-10-01 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：:In Singapore, the responsibility of caring for persons with dementia falls on family members who cope with a long-term caregiver burden, depending on available support resources. Hiring foreign domestic workers to alleviate caregiver burden becomes a prevalent coping strategy that caregivers adopt. This strategy allow...

journal_title：Health communication

authors： Basnyat I,Chang L

更新日期：2017-09-01 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：:This study reports results of a study that examined the extent to which contextual factors (i.e., income level and number of children) might predict a mother's mental health quality, which, in turn, may predict level of engagement with Facebook. Results supported this model, finding that mothers with more children and...

journal_title：Health communication

authors： Kaufmann R,Buckner MM,Ledbetter AM

更新日期：2017-08-01 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：: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：:As Southeast Asia has experienced haze crises in recent years, encouraging Singaporeans to take preventive measures against negative health outcomes during haze is a growing concern. This study examines how communication factors (i.e., attention to traditional media and new media, interpersonal discussion, and knowled...

journal_title：Health communication

authors： Lin TT,Li L,Bautista JR

更新日期：2017-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:As health organizations increasingly use the Internet to communicate medical information and advice (Shortliffe et al., 2000; World Health Organization, 2013), studying factors that affect health information processing and health-protective behaviors becomes extremely important. The present research applied the elabor...

journal_title：Health communication

authors： Kononova A,Yuan S,Joo E

更新日期：2017-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This research examines the effects of two incidental discrete emotions-fear and anger-on health risk perception (i.e., perceived susceptibility to a health problem) and persuasion. In two experiments, fear and anger were induced before participants were exposed to a public service announcement that advocated sun prote...

journal_title：Health communication

authors： Nan X

更新日期：2017-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This research examines the sources from which U.S. consumers obtain their food safety information. It seeks to determine differences in the types of information sources used by U.S. consumers of different sociodemographic background, as well as the relationships between the types of information sources used and food s...

journal_title：Health communication

authors： Nan X,Verrill L,Kim J

更新日期：2017-03-01 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：:Encouraging patients to be involved in their care and enhancing shared decision making (SDM) have been advocated over the past two decades as means to enhance patient-centered care. However, one of the barriers to implementing SDM in medical consultations is the need to adapt this approach to various populations and m...

journal_title：Health communication

authors： Zisman-Ilani Y,Roe D,Scholl I,Härter M,Karnieli-Miller O

更新日期：2017-01-01 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：: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：:Many people with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), sometimes lacking adequate face-to-face sources of support, turn to online communities to meet others with the disease. These online communities are places of support and education, but through the use of social media communication technologies, people with IBD are re...

journal_title：Health communication

authors： Frohlich DO

更新日期：2016-11-01 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 purpose of this article is to expand on prior research in end-of-life communication and death and dying communication apprehension, by developing a unique course that utilizes a hospice setting and an applied, service-learning approach. Therefore, this essay describes and discusses both students' and my experience...

journal_title：Health communication

authors： Pagano MP

更新日期：2016-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The cultural and linguistic diversity of the U.S. health care provider workforce is expanding. Diversity among health care personnel such as paraprofessional health care assistants (HCAs)-many of whom are immigrants-means that intimate, high-stakes cross-cultural and cross-linguistic contact characterizes many health ...

journal_title：Health communication

authors： Rubin D,Coles VB,Barnett JT

更新日期：2016-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This research examines the interaction effect of message framing (gain vs. loss) and perceived susceptibility (i.e., perceived likelihood that one's child is at risk of contracting HPV) on African American parents' intentions to vaccinate their children against HPV. Results of an experiment (N = 193) in which parents ...

journal_title：Health communication

authors： Nan X,Madden K,Richards A,Holt C,Wang MQ,Tracy K

更新日期：2016-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study attempts to advance theorizing about health policy advocacy with combinations of narrative focus and a statistical map in an attempt to increase state legislators' support for policies to address the issue of obesity by reducing food deserts. Specifically, we examine state legislators' responses to variatio...

journal_title：Health communication

authors： Niederdeppe J,Roh S,Dreisbach C

更新日期：2016-01-01 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：: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：: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