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：: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

abstract：:This project contributes to our understanding of how audiences interpret televised depictions of illness by investigating responses to the depiction of multiple sclerosis (MS) on the television drama The West Wing from 1999 to 2002. The study employs qualitative methods, including a focus group, individual interviews,...

journal_title：Health communication

authors： Zoller HM,Worrell T

更新日期：2006-01-01 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：: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：:This study explores the mutual influences of friendship development and organizational assimilation processes among first-year male medical students. Interviews and observations were used to examine the ways students constructed and enacted their friendships with male classmates during the process of assimilating into...

journal_title：Health communication

authors： Zorn TE,Gregory KW

更新日期：2005-01-01 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：:Antitobacco groups have joined millions of other commercial or noncommercial entities in developing a presence on the Web. These groups primarily represent the following different sponsorship categories: grassroots, medical, government, and corporate. To obtain a better understanding of the strengths and weaknesses in...

journal_title：Health communication

authors： Lin CA,Hullman GA

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This article examines pediatrician-parent interaction in the context of acute pediatric encounters for children with upper respiratory infections. Parents and physicians orient to treatment recommendations as normatively requiring parent acceptance for physicians to close the activity. Through acceptance, withholding ...

journal_title：Health communication

authors： Stivers T

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This article examines the effectiveness of persuasive fear appeals in motivating women to enroll in self-defense classes to take protective action against rape. Witte's extended parallel process model is used as a framework to examine the relations between perceived invulnerability, perceived fear, and fear control pr...

journal_title：Health communication

authors： Morrison K

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Guided largely by the theory of reasoned action, the Get Real about Violence curriculum attempts to reduce verbal and physical aggression, as well as behaviors that encourage verbal or physical aggression, such as watching a fight and spreading rumors about a fight that is going to happen. This 12-lesson curriculum wa...

journal_title：Health communication

authors： Meyer G,Roberto AJ,Boster FJ,Roberto HL

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

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：:Relative to other types of health communication research (acute care physician patient communication, communication campaigns, compliance episodes, etc.), investigations of patient communication following the diagnosis of cancer are infrequent. Theoretically driven, empirical research is desperately needed in such pos...

journal_title：Health communication

authors： O'Hair D,Villagran MM,Wittenberg E,Brown K,Ferguson M,Hall HT,Doty T

更新日期：2003-01-01 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：:The opening moments of a phone call reveal how a father informs his son, for the 1st time, that his mom's tumor is malignant. An extended phone opening reveals how delaying talk about the mom's condition allows for important interactional work: Displaying resistance to announce the bad news directly, projecting and an...

journal_title：Health communication

authors： Beach WA

更新日期：2002-01-01 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：:This article reports our ongoing work in developing a model of health care communication called collaborative interpretation, which we define as a rhetorical practice that generates building blocks for a more complete and coherent diagnostic story and for a collaborative treatment plan. It does this by situating patie...

journal_title：Health communication

authors： Young A,Flower L

更新日期：2002-01-01 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：:Treatment plans can be thought of as one of the products of a medical interaction. As such, treatment for illness has been investigated as an outcome measure and seems to reflect bias in some areas of the practice of medicine. Although the evidence for patterns of differential treatment is compelling, determining the ...

journal_title：Health communication

authors： Costello BA,Roberts F

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study examined the association of the traits, health locus of control, and self-monitoring with adolescents' tobacco uptake. Participants were 112 rural adolescents (12 to 19 years old, M = 15.3). Of that sample, 33% used tobacco. Tobacco users were found to score lower on the dimension of Internality and higher ...

journal_title：Health communication

authors： Booth-Butterfield M,Anderson RH,Booth-Butterfield S

更新日期：2000-01-01 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：:This article presents a sociolinguistic analysis of humor as a face-saving device in a memory clinic. Data for this article were transcripts of audiotaped clinical examinations between 4 clinicians and 17 patients, conducted at the Memory and Alzheimer's Clinic at the University of California, San Francisco. The study...

journal_title：Health communication

authors： Saunders PA

更新日期：1998-01-01 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