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US Nationwide Multi-City Media Coverage of COVID-19 Responses: Community Structure Theory, Belief System, and a “Violated Way of Life” Journal of Health Communication (IF 2.742) Pub Date : 2024-03-10 John C. Pollock, Miranda Crowley, Suchir Govindarajan, Abigail Lewis, Alexis Marta, Radhika Purandare, James N. Sparano
Community structure analysis compared city characteristics and newspaper coverage of state/local government responses to COVID-19 in 25 major U.S. cities, sampling all 250+ word articles from 4/4/2...
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Development of Podcasts in a Hospital Setting: A User-Centered Approach Journal of Health Communication (IF 2.742) Pub Date : 2024-02-29 JC Frølund, A Løkke, HI Jensen, I Farver-Vestergaard
Patient information plays a pivotal role in preparing individuals for hospital visits and empowering them to actively participate in decision-making processes regarding their healthcare. However, m...
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How Do Gain-Loss Frames and Cultural Arguments Persuade? Designing Effective Messages to Weaken College Students’ Binge-Drinking Intentions Journal of Health Communication (IF 2.742) Pub Date : 2024-02-21 Soo Jung Hong, Yungwook Kim
To design effective health messages, this study investigates the effects of gain-loss framing and relevant moderating effects in the context of college students’ alcohol use. Specifically, based on...
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Can Happiness and Sadness Overcome Organ Donation Barriers Following Exposure to Radio Ads? Journal of Health Communication (IF 2.742) Pub Date : 2024-02-14 Brian L. Quick, Minhey Chung, Ethan Morrow, Tobias Reynolds-Tylus
Concerns related to bodily integrity, medical mistrust, superstition, and disgust with respect to organ transplantation remain commonly cited barriers among African American, Caucasian, and Hispani...
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The Effects of Animations and Multimedia Messages on Public Engagement in Precision Medicine: Assessment of Moderation and Mediation Journal of Health Communication (IF 2.742) Pub Date : 2024-02-14 Wei Peng, Aurora Occa, Susan E. Morgan
Public participation in precision medicine (PM) research is essential to achieving effective health care but has been impeded by a lack of awareness and basic knowledge. There is a critical need fo...
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Understanding How Youth Search for Mental Health Information Online: A Qualitative Descriptive Study Journal of Health Communication (IF 2.742) Pub Date : 2024-02-14 Megan Pohl, Sarah A Elliott, Harsimronjoot Sidhu, Sarah Lappin, Ricky Liu, Shannon D Scott, Amanda Newton, Lisa Hartling
The objective of this study was to understand how youth search for mental health information online. Youth partners were engaged at the onset of the project and provided input throughout on the des...
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Communicating without a Shared Language: A Qualitative Study of Language Barriers in Language-Discordant Cancer Communication Journal of Health Communication (IF 2.742) Pub Date : 2024-01-31 Lisbeth Birkelund, Karin B. Dieperink, Morten Sodemann, Johanna F. Lindell, Karina D. Steffensen, Dorthe S. Nielsen
We use language to achieve understanding, and language barriers can have major health consequences for patients with serious illness. While ethnic minorities are more likely to experience social in...
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A COM-B and Theoretical Domains Framework Mapping of the Barriers and Facilitators to Effective Communication and Help-Seeking Among People With, or Seeking a Diagnosis Of, Endometriosis Journal of Health Communication (IF 2.742) Pub Date : 2024-01-23 Jasmine Heath Hearn, Katie Bryson, Livija Barsauskaite, Stella Bullo
Endometriosis is a chronic condition in which tissue resembling the endometrium grows outside the womb, causing severe chronic pain. People with endometriosis report difficulty in help-seeking and ...
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Parent-Adolescent Weight Communication: Parental Psychosocial Correlates Among a Diverse National Sample Journal of Health Communication (IF 2.742) Pub Date : 2024-01-17 Leah M. Lessard, Rebecca M. Puhl, Gary D. Foster, Michelle I. Cardel
Parental communication about body weight with their children is common across diverse families. The current study investigates how parents’ feelings about their own bodies, beliefs about body weigh...
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Understanding mHealth Adoption and Lifestyle Improvement: An Empirical Test of the Antecedents and Mediating Mechanisms Journal of Health Communication (IF 2.742) Pub Date : 2024-01-17 Piper Liping Liu
The potential of using mobile phones for health care service delivery has been well acknowledged. Despite that mobile health (mHealth) related research has proliferated in the past decade, mHealth ...
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Rationale, Procedures, and Response Rates for a Pilot Study to Sample Cancer Survivors for NCI’s Health Information National Trends Survey: HINTS-SEER 2021 Journal of Health Communication (IF 2.742) Pub Date : 2024-01-17 Kelly D. Blake, Richard P. Moser, Ashley B. Murray, Terisa Davis, David Cantor, Andrew Caporaso, Michele West, Suzanne Bentler, Meg McKinley, Salma Shariff-Marco, Chuck Wiggins, Robin C. Vanderpool
The National Cancer Institute’s (NCI) Health Information National Trends Survey (HINTS) is a nationally representative survey of U.S. adults in which 12–17% of respondents report a cancer history. ...
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Trust in Mass Media as Sources of Cancer Information: Findings from a Nationally Representative Cross-Sectional Survey in Japan Journal of Health Communication (IF 2.742) Pub Date : 2024-01-17 Rina Miyawaki, Koichiro Oka, AKi Otsuki, Junko Saito, Akiko Yaguchi-saito, Aya Kuchiba, Maiko Fujimori, Gary L. Kreps, Taichi Shimazu, for the INFORM Study Group
Trust is a major factor in effective public dissemination and use of relevant health information to guide important health decisions. To examine mass media as a communication channel for delivering...
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“A Friendly Conversation.” Developing an eHealth Intervention to Increase COVID-19 Testing and Vaccination Literacy Among Women with Criminal and Legal System Involvement Journal of Health Communication (IF 2.742) Pub Date : 2024-01-17 Mugur v. Geana, Pan Liu, Jun Pei, Sherri Anderson, Megha Ramaswamy
Many women leaving jails are ill-prepared to follow recommended COVID-19 mitigation practices, including testing and vaccination. Low COVID-19-related health literacy, exposure to disinformation, a...
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The Facts or the Story? It Takes Both to Sensitize People About Unknown Health Hazards Journal of Health Communication (IF 2.742) Pub Date : 2024-01-17 Yi-Lun Jheng, Sander Van de Cruys, Leen Catrysse, Heidi Vandebosch, David Gijbels, Karolien Poels
Communicating about new or unknown health risks is challenging because it requires audiences to engage with and process novel and often complex health information. This study examines how texts can...
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Weight Stigma in Online News Images: A Visual Content Analysis of Stigma Communication in the Depictions of Individuals with Obesity in U.S. and U.K. News Journal of Health Communication (IF 2.742) Pub Date : 2024-01-17 Aditi Rao, Rebecca Puhl, Kirstie Farrar
Weight stigma is a pervasive form of discrimination worldwide. News media, and news images in particular, can reinforce weight stigma by portraying persons with obesity in a negative, stereotypical...
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Quantitatively Identifying Messaging Topics to Encourage West Virginia nurses’ COVID-19 Vaccination Journal of Health Communication (IF 2.742) Pub Date : 2024-01-09 Emilee T. Austin, Daniel Totzkay, Julia Daisy Fraustino, Lisa M. Costello, Christine E. Kunkle, Megan R Dillow
Nurses are particularly influential to others as it relates to COVID-19 vaccination decision-making and are at higher risk of COVID-19 themselves. Yet, nurses’ COVID-19 vaccination remains suboptim...
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Issue Involvement Moderates the Effect of Gain- and Loss-Framed Messages on Mothers’ Intentions to Give 5 Portions of Fruits and Vegetables to Their Children Every Day Journal of Health Communication (IF 2.742) Pub Date : 2024-01-09 Peter Busse
Research suggests that issue involvement moderates the efficacy of gain and loss frames, yet the extent to which this is true across behaviors and contexts is an open question. In this study, I exa...
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Bridging Culture and Language: Encouraging Bilingual/Multicultural Individuals to Act as Information Navigators for Their Loved-Ones and Communities during the COVID-19 Pandemic Journal of Health Communication (IF 2.742) Pub Date : 2024-01-09 Najma Abdi, Miriam Flores, KeliAnne K. Hara-Hubbard, Anne M. Turner, Juan Gudino, Sheharbano Jafry, Jeffrey R. Harris, Peggy A. Hannon, Barbara Baquero, Hendrika Meischke
Linguistically diverse communities face barriers to receiving appropriate health information. COVID-19 exacerbated these health-communication inequities. University of Washington researchers survey...
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Message Fatigue and COVID-19 Vaccine Booster Uptake in the United States Journal of Health Communication (IF 2.742) Pub Date : 2024-01-09 Xiaoquan Zhao, Mika Kadono, Elissa C. Kranzler, Ivica Pavisic, Stephanie Miles, Marcus Maher, Lindsey Strausser, Xiaomei Cai, Leah Hoffman
Dissemination of public health information plays an essential role in communicable disease control and prevention. However, widespread and repeated messaging could become counterproductive if it le...
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Social Cognitive Theory and Willingness to Perform Recommended Health Behavior: The Moderating Role of Misperceptions Journal of Health Communication (IF 2.742) Pub Date : 2024-01-09 Porismita Borah, Kyle Lorenzano, Eylul Yel, Erica Austin
More than 6 million people have died due to the COVID-19 pandemic. In order to slow down the spread of COVID-19, health authorities have created numerous guidelines. In the current study, we use su...
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Does Organizational Messaging Make a Difference? Investigating Themes and Language Style in Twitter Discourse and Engagement by Mental Health Organizations Journal of Health Communication (IF 2.742) Pub Date : 2024-01-09 Rebecca K. Britt, Heather J. Carmack, Andrew Morris, Ananya Raka Chakraborty, Courtny L. Franco
The present study investigated the latent topics and language styles present in mental health organizational discourse on Twitter. The researchers sought to analyze identifying the prevalence of an...
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Behavioral Beliefs Predict Recommended Behaviors, Especially When Trust in Public Health Sources is Low: Evidence from a Longitudinal Study of Three COVID-19 Prevention Behaviors Among U.S. Adults Journal of Health Communication (IF 2.742) Pub Date : 2024-01-09 Ava Kikut-Stein
Public distrust in official sources of health information and uncertainty about novel guidelines may discourage engagement in recommended disease prevention practices. The current study tests the h...
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“What Do I Say? How Do I Say it?” Twitter as a Knowledge Dissemination Tool for Mental Health Research Journal of Health Communication (IF 2.742) Pub Date : 2024-01-09 Erin Madden, Katrina Prior, Tara Guckel, Sophia Garlick Bock, Zachary Bryant, Siobhan O’Dean, Smriti Nepal, Caitlin Ward, Louise Thornton
This study aims to generate evidence-based guidelines for researchers regarding how to effectively disseminate mental health research via Twitter. Three hundred mental health research Tweets posted...
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Outcomes of Information Seeking and Avoidance Behaviors: Insights from a German Longitudinal Study Journal of Health Communication (IF 2.742) Pub Date : 2023-11-21 Elena Link, Robin Leuppert, Eva Baumann
Examining information behaviors is often justified by their consequences but theoretical models of information behaviors have focused on antecedents of seeking and avoidance rather than their outco...
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Time to Treat the Climate and Nature Crisis as One Indivisible Global Health Emergency Journal of Health Communication (IF 2.742) Pub Date : 2023-11-21 Kamran Abbasi, Parveen Ali, Virginia Barbour, Thomas Benfield, Kirsten Bibbins-Domingo, Gregory E. Erhabor, Stephen Hancocks, Richard Horton, Laurie Laybourn-Langton, Robert Mash, Peush Sahni, Wadeia Mohammad Sharief, Paul Yonga, Chris Zielinski
Published in Journal of Health Communication: International Perspectives (Vol. 28, No. 12, 2023)
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Validating the Communicating Care Needs Tool for HIV (CCNT-HIV) Journal of Health Communication (IF 2.742) Pub Date : 2023-11-21 Sachiko Terui, Joy V. Goldsmith, Jiangang Huang, Ching-Chi Yang, Xinhua Yu, Lih Yuan Deng, Rebekah Wicke
Health literacy has been identified as an influential factor affecting the HIV care continuum and HIV epidemic, but recent systematic reviews found mixed relationships between health literacy and H...
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Adolescents’ Drinking Behavior Off- and Online: Disentangling Exposure Effects and Selective Exposure in Networked Communication Structures Journal of Health Communication (IF 2.742) Pub Date : 2023-11-21 Tobias Frey, Thomas N. Friemel
This article applies a network approach to better understand the often-demonstrated link between adolescents’ drinking behavior and their exposure to alcohol-related content on social media. Focusi...
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Measuring Health Professionals’ Skills and Self-Efficacy for Communicating with Individuals with Disabilities: Instrument Development and Validation Journal of Health Communication (IF 2.742) Pub Date : 2023-11-21 Jill W. Lassiter, Amanada L. Campbell, Andrea R. Taliaferro, Shannon P. Zimmerman
Individuals with disabilities experience numerous health disparities compared to their non-disabled peers and face inequities associated with challenges accessing care, stigma, and bias. Health pro...
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The Role of Media in Addressing Opioid Use Disorder: Examining Causal Attributions and Emotions as Mediators of Media Influence on Stigma and Policy Support Journal of Health Communication (IF 2.742) Pub Date : 2023-11-21 Hyojung Park, Ruobing Li, Chun Yang, Josh Grimm, Lance Porter
This study examined the influence of media on stigma and public support for policy interventions that address opioid-related problems. Data from a survey of 997 U.S. adults indicate that media expo...
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Development and Validation of Korean ‘COVID-blues’ Social Syndrome Scale Journal of Health Communication (IF 2.742) Pub Date : 2023-11-21 Changhyun Ahn, Ghee Young Noh
This study focuses on measuring the effects of COVID-19 on mental health both at cultural and individual levels. Although many COVID-19 studies used previous COVID-19 measurements such as FCV-19S, ...
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Exploring the Dunning-Kruger Effect in Health Communication: How Perceived Food and Media Literacy and Actual Knowledge Drift Apart When Evaluating Misleading Food Advertising Journal of Health Communication (IF 2.742) Pub Date : 2023-11-02 Rebecca Scheiber, Matthias Karmasin, Sandra Diehl
Marketers often advertise products high in sugar, fat or calories as healthy products. With this potentially misleading information, they can influence eating decisions with negative consequences f...
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(De)Stigmatizing Depression on Social Media: The Role of Responsibility Frames Journal of Health Communication (IF 2.742) Pub Date : 2023-11-02 Sophia Schaller, Annemarie Wiedicke, Doreen Reifegerste, Linn Julia Temmann
Responsibility frames on social media could shape recipients’ responses toward people with depression, which is crucial for the public (de)stigmatization of the mental disorder. Thus, the present s...
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Narratives and Mental Illness: Understanding the Factors That Impact Stigmatizing Attitudes and Behavioral Intentions Journal of Health Communication (IF 2.742) Pub Date : 2023-11-02 Kristina Medero, Shelly Hovick
Entertainment television has been explored to reduce stigmatizing attitudes toward mental illness by incorporating positive stories about characters with mental illness. Guided by mediated contact ...
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Evaluation of the Confiance Totale Campaign in Togo: Associations Between Campaign Exposure and Family Planning Outcomes of Interest Journal of Health Communication (IF 2.742) Pub Date : 2023-11-02 Dana Loll, Hilaire Tokplo, Timothy R. Werwie, Serge Prince-Agbodjan, Djibril Ouro-Gnao, Claudia Vondrasek, Sethson Kassengne, Robert Hugues Yaovi Nagbe, Lorimpo Babogou, Erin Portillo, Danielle Naugle
In Togo, family planning (FP) use remains low; only 24.1% of married woman ages 15 to 49 use modern FP. The West Africa Breakthrough ACTION (WABA) project developed the Confiance Totale radio campa...
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People Wear Masks when they Ski: Comparing Congruent and Incongruent Behavioral Context Appeals Journal of Health Communication (IF 2.742) Pub Date : 2023-11-02 Yi. Liao, Dallin R. Adams, Helen M. Lillie, Jakob D. Jensen
When advocating for a behavior, persuasive messaging typically focuses on the context that behavior is performed in, such as mask-wearing during the COVID-19 pandemic. However, situating the advoca...
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The Effect of Shared Decision-Making by Mental Health Nurses on Medication Adherence in Patients with Alcohol Use Disorders: Provider-Patient Communication Pathway Model Journal of Health Communication (IF 2.742) Pub Date : 2023-10-12 MoonJU Song, Yul-Mai Song
The involvement of patients with mental health issues in their own treatment decision-making has often been overlooked. This study aimed to investigate the impact of shared decision-making between ...
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Lessons Learned from Developing Tailored Community Communication Campaigns in the HEALing Communities Study Journal of Health Communication (IF 2.742) Pub Date : 2023-10-06 Michael D. Stein, Carol Krause, Emma Rodgers, Anita Silwal, Donald Helme, Michael Slater, Dacia Beard, Nicky Lewis, Jamie Luster, Kara Stephens, Craig Lefebvre
This paper outlines lessons learned from tailoring communication campaigns to increase demand for, and reduce stigma toward, evidence-based practices to reduce opioid overdose deaths in 66 communit...
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Pro- and Anti-Tax Framing in News Articles About California Sugar-Sweetened Beverage Tax Campaigns from 2014-2018 Journal of Health Communication (IF 2.742) Pub Date : 2023-09-08 Kim Garcia, Pamela Mejia, Sarah Perez-Sanz, Lori Dorfman, Kristine Madsen, Dean Schillinger
Sugar-sweetened beverages (SSB) contribute to illness, especially among marginalized communities and children targeted by the beverage industry. SSB taxes can reduce consumption, illness burden, an...
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Understanding COVID-19 Vaccine Knowledge, Beliefs, and Trusted Information Sources Among Black Women in Kentucky: Implications for Vaccine Uptake Journal of Health Communication (IF 2.742) Pub Date : 2023-09-05 Carina M. Zelaya, Diane B. Francis, Lovoria B. Williams
To optimize COVID-19 vaccination rates among Black women in the United States, it is crucial to understand their vaccine beliefs and determine the most effective communication sources and messages ...
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Trust in COVID-19 Information from Different Media Types and Its Association with Preventive Measures Adoption in the U.S. Journal of Health Communication (IF 2.742) Pub Date : 2023-09-04 Hongmei Li, Baojiang Chen, Zhuo Chen, Liwei Chen, Donglan Zhang, Ming Wen, Jian Li, Yan Li, Xusong Han, Dejun Su
This study compares and contrasts how key factors influence Americans’ trust in different types of media (broadcast, print, and social) as COVID-19 information sources and how people’s media trust ...
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An Analysis of Crisis Communication Delivered by the Chief Health Officer During the COVID-19 Pandemic in Queensland, Australia Journal of Health Communication (IF 2.742) Pub Date : 2023-08-29 Natalie Reyes Bernard, Lucy Tudehope, Hai Phung, Neil Harris, Ernesta Sofija
During the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic, the state of Queensland, Australia, had relative success in containing viral transmission, presenting a unique case for potential insights into effec...
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Piloting Gain and Loss-Framed PrEP and Childbearing Messaging to Promote HIV Testing in Uganda: Perspectives from Couples and Providers Journal of Health Communication (IF 2.742) Pub Date : 2023-08-29 Emily A. Hurley, Jimmy Mayatsa, Joseph K.B. Matovu, Nik Schuetz, Rhoda Wanyenze, Glenn Wagner, Kathy Goggin
Fears of relationship dissolution and the inability to bear healthy children remain barriers to HIV testing in sub-Saharan Africa. Pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) carries both clinical and symbolic...
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COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy in Cameroon: The Role of Medical Mistrust and Social Media Use Journal of Health Communication (IF 2.742) Pub Date : 2023-08-25 Soya Nah, Lillie D. Williamson, Lee Ann Kahlor, Lucy Atkinson, Jean-Louis Ntang-Beb, Sean J. Upshaw
Most African countries report low COVID-19 vaccination rates (Msellati et al., 2022; WHO Africa; 2020). This study focuses on factors associated with vaccine hesitancy specifically in the country of Cameroon. Social media use and medical mistrust have been suggested as key variables that may increase vaccine hesitancy. Adopting the information-related perspective guided by the risk information seeking
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A Mobile Health Information Behavior Model: Theoretical Development and Mixed-Method Testing in the Context of Mobile Apps on Child Poisoning Prevention Journal of Health Communication (IF 2.742) Pub Date : 2023-08-23 Paula Stehr, Lyn Ermel, Constanze Rossmann, Doreen Reifegerste, Ann-Kathrin Lindemann, Annett Schulze
While several studies have explored the use of mobile health applications, few have observed determinants of mobile health information behavior. To develop a model explaining parents’ mobile inform...
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Telehealth Talk on Reddit: Understanding How Language Use About Telemedicine Evolved Throughout the COVID-19 Pandemic Journal of Health Communication (IF 2.742) Pub Date : 2023-08-21 Ashley Barrett, Kayla Rhidenour, Kate Blackburn
The COVID-19 health pandemic acted as a punctuated event that spurred rapid change in healthcare delivery, pushing us to adopt new socio-cultural norms and ways of communicating. The pandemic also altered several long-standing structures within healthcare organizations. To better understand peoples’ perceptions of how the pandemic shifted technological structures within healthcare, this study examines
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Key Conversations and Trusted Information Among Hesitant Adopters of the COVID-19 Vaccine Journal of Health Communication (IF 2.742) Pub Date : 2023-08-20 Rachel S. Purvis, Ramey Moore, Don E. Willis, Shashank S. Kraleti, Morgan P. Gurel-Headley, Sheena CarlLee, Pearl A. McElfish
COVID-19 vaccines effectively protect against COVID-19-related hospitalization or death, and 67.1% of the US population is fully vaccinated. However, the disparity in COVID-19 vaccination persists among minority and rural populations who often report greater hesitancy about COVID-19 vaccines. This exploratory study aimed to understand and document trusted sources of information about the COVID-19 vaccine
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Evaluation of the “We Can Do This” Campaign Paid Media and COVID-19 Vaccination Uptake, United States, December 2020–January 2022 Journal of Health Communication (IF 2.742) Pub Date : 2023-08-01 Benjamin Denison, Heather Dahlen, Jae-Eun C. Kim, Christopher Williams, Elissa Kranzler, Joseph N. Luchman, Sarah Trigger, Morgane Bennett, Tyler Nighbor, Monica Vines, Elizabeth L. Petrun Sayers, Allison N. Kurti, Jessica Weinberg, Leah Hoffman, Joshua Peck
Public education campaigns are promising methods for promoting vaccine uptake. In April 2021, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services launched the We Can Do This COVID-19 public education campaign. This study is one of the first evaluations of this COVID-19 public education campaign. We tested associations between channel-specific campaign exposure (i.e. digital, TV, radio, print, and out-of-home
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How Does Physician (Non)accommodation Affect Patient Behavioral Intention? Using a Web-Based Experiment to Examine Indirect Effects of Language Type on Behavioral Intention Through Goal Inferences and Source Appraisals Journal of Health Communication (IF 2.742) Pub Date : 2023-07-20 Danni Liao, Jia Yan, Sam R. Wilson
Drawing on communication accommodation theory (CAT), we investigated how physician (non)accommodation indirectly affects participants’ intention to engage in advocated health behaviors through participant goal inferences and source appraisals. We conducted a 3 (language type: medical jargon, analogies, literal language) × 2 (health topic: coronary artery disease, influenza vaccine) web-based experiment
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Effects of Health Responsibility Frames: Testing a Mediation Model of Attributions, Emotions, and Social Support Intentions Journal of Health Communication (IF 2.742) Pub Date : 2023-07-20 Linn Julia Temmann, Doreen Reifegerste, Annemarie Wiedicke, Sebastian Scherr
When news stories cover health and illness, they often address issues of responsibility. These responsibility frames can affect recipients’ responsibility beliefs (i.e. attributions) and thereby indirectly affect emotions and motivation to support people affected by health problems. To date, it is not fully understood how responsibility frames affect social support intentions, and if attributions and
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Normalizing Anxiety on Social Media Increases Self-Diagnosis of Anxiety: The Mediating Effect of Identification (But Not Stigma) Journal of Health Communication (IF 2.742) Pub Date : 2023-07-13 Farah Hasan, Melissa M. Foster, Hyunyi Cho
Normalizing mental health disorders in media communication can have a positive impact on the public by improving awareness. However, normalizing issues like anxiety could lead people to categorize normal anxiety as a disorder. In Study One, viewing social media posts that normalized anxiety resulted in a greater likelihood of self-diagnosis of anxiety disorder compared to social media posts that did
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Using TikTok to Educate, Influence, or Inspire? A Content Analysis of Health-Related EduTok Videos Journal of Health Communication (IF 2.742) Pub Date : 2023-07-12 Nicole O’Donnell, Sultana Ismet Jerin, Di Mu
This study explores how people engage with educational and motivational content on TikTok. We conducted a mixed-methods content analysis of N = 400 health videos from the prosocial EduTok campaign. Two theories guided our analysis of content: the motivational theory of role modeling and the health belief model. Our results revealed that audiences most frequently engaged with educational videos related
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Understanding Vaccination Among Hesitant Adopters of the COVID-19 Vaccine Using the Increasing Vaccination Model Journal of Health Communication (IF 2.742) Pub Date : 2023-07-02 Ramey Moore, Rachel S. Purvis, Sheena CarlLee, Emily Hallgren, Shashank Kraleti, Don E. Willis, Pearl A. McElfish
The coronavirus disease (COVID−19) was the third leading cause of death in 2021 in the United States and has led to historic declines in life expectancy for Americans. While vaccination is an effective mitigation strategy for COVID−19, vaccine hesitancy remains a major barrier to individual and population-level protection. An emerging literature on hesitant adopters of COVID−19 vaccines highlights
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Applying the Hornik & Woolf Approach to Identify Messaging Themes and Improve COVID-19 Vaccine Confidence Among Federally Qualified Health Centers’ Workforce in Wisconsin Journal of Health Communication (IF 2.742) Pub Date : 2023-07-07 Sijia Yang, Liwei Shen, Sashikala Gregory, Beth Probst, Dorothy Farrar-Edwards, Susan Racine Passmore
The Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHCs) in Wisconsin serve the most under-resourced communities in the state and are trusted sources in local communities. Although healthcare workers can be leveraged to champion COVID-19 vaccines, existing vaccine hesitancy among the FQHC workforce itself calls for research to identify promising messaging themes that can boost their vaccine confidence. In spring
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Sbcc Training in Francophone West Africa: Overview, Lessons Learned, Challenges and Future Directions Journal of Health Communication (IF 2.742) Pub Date : 2023-07-04 Hugues Koné, Marie-Laure Tchéré
Abstract The study explores the SBCC training experience in Francophone West Africa and how training programs have been impacted by major pandemics that this region has experienced, COVID-19 particularly. To stay focused, we have selected Côte d’Ivoire as a case study because it is representative of Francophone African countries which faced political instability, pandemics and epidemics in the past
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Does Narrative Quality Matter During Implementation of a School-Based Prevention Intervention? A Test of Narrative Engagement Theory Journal of Health Communication (IF 2.742) Pub Date : 2023-07-03 Youngju Shin, Michelle Miller-Day, Jonathan Pettigrew, Michael L. Hecht
Abstract Narratives play a powerful role in sharing meaning and making sense of experiences. Specifically, health narratives convey storylines, characters, and messages about health-related behaviors and provide audiences with models for healthy behaviors, prompting audiences’ health-related reflections and decision-making. Narrative engagement theory (NET) explains how personal narratives can be integrated
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Spit, Disgust, and Parasite Stress Theory: A Message Experiment Journal of Health Communication (IF 2.742) Pub Date : 2023-06-29 Daniel Chavez-Yenter, Helen M. Lille, Sebastiaan Gorissen, Kevin K. John, Alexis S. Vega, Jakob D. Jensen
Public health interventions targeting coughing and spitting during the Tuberculosis and 1918 flu epidemics were largely successful. Specifically, public health officials’ messaging framed the behavior of spitting as repulsive and endangering to others, prompting an elicitation of disgust. Anti-spitting campaigns – messaging that focuses on the threat of spit or sputum – have long been common during
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Explaining College Men’s Rape Myth Acceptance: The Role of Sports Media, Masculine Norms & Fraternity Membership Journal of Health Communication (IF 2.742) Pub Date : 2023-06-23 Stacey J.T. Hust, Soojung Kang, Leticia Couto, Jiayu Li, Kathleen Boyce Rodgers
Sexual assault is a serious public health issue that is particularly pervasive on U.S. college campuses, and it is well established that men’s acceptance of rape myths is associated with negative, and even harmful, attitudes and behaviors toward women. Given the association of rape myths with sexual assault, there is a critical need to identify factors associated with men’s acceptance of such myths
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Community and Opinion Leadership Effects on Vaping Discourse: A Network Analysis of Online Reddit Threads Journal of Health Communication (IF 2.742) Pub Date : 2023-06-21 Jacob A. Rohde, Jessica Liu, Vaughan W. Rees
Reddit is a popular hub for discussing vaping. A deeper understanding of the factors that influence this online discourse could inform public health messaging efforts targeting this platform. Using a network analysis framework, we sought to investigate the role of opinion leaders and online communities in facilitating vaping discussions on Reddit. We collected Reddit submissions about vaping posted
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Tobacco Free Nicotine Vaping Products: A Study of Health Halo Effects Among Middle School Youth Journal of Health Communication (IF 2.742) Pub Date : 2023-06-21 Sherri Jean Katz, Ashley Petersen, Elisia Cohen, Dorothy Hatsukami
Health halo effects are a form of biased processing, wherein a particular product claim bleeds over to other categories of analysis or to an overall healthier impression. This study tests whether the term tobacco-free nicotine triggers a health halo effect. Through an experiment with middle school youth (n = 599), we vary the flavor (tobacco vs. fruit) and nicotine source information (nicotine/tobacco-free
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Curiosity, Surprise, and the Recall of Tobacco-Related Health Information in Adolescents Journal of Health Communication (IF 2.742) Pub Date : 2023-06-15 T Lyew, A Ikhlas, F Sayed, A Vincent, D.M Lydon-Staley
A key goal of health communications designed to prevent smoking initiation during adolescence is for the tobacco-related information to be retained in memory beyond immediate message exposure. Here, we test the role for epistemic emotions, specifically curiosity and surprise, in facilitating memory for tobacco-related health information. Participants (n = 294 never-smoking adolescents, ages 14–16 years)