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Father’s Playbook: From Health Communication Research to Prenatal Health Intervention Health Commun. (IF 3.501) Pub Date : 2024-03-14 Michael Mackert, Dorothy Mandell, Erin Donovan, Catherine Cunningham, Daniela DeLuca, Weijia Shi, Natalie Poulos
Research has demonstrated benefits of paternal involvement during the prenatal stage: increased prenatal visits, better adherence to postpartum best practices, and improved communication between pa...
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Contributions to Research and Practice Made by the National Cancer Institute’s Health Communication and Informatics Research Branch Health Commun. (IF 3.501) Pub Date : 2024-03-14 Robin C. Vanderpool, Kelly D. Blake, Wen-Ying Sylvia Chou, Heather D’Angelo, Nicole Senft Everson, Irina A. Iles, Anna Gaysynsky
The Health Communication and Informatics Research Branch at the U.S. National Cancer Institute was founded in 1999 in response to increasing evidence demonstrating a link between effective health c...
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Evidence-Based Health Communication in Practice: Driving Funding, Research, and Training Through the University of Texas at Austin Center for Health Communication Health Commun. (IF 3.501) Pub Date : 2024-03-13 Michael Mackert, Weijia Shi, Daniela M. De Luca, Jessica Hughes Wagner, Deena Kemp, Kathrynn Pounders
Academic centers play a vital role in advancing knowledge, driving innovation, and fostering collaboration. The University of Texas at Austin Center for Health Communication was established in 2014...
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Disease Awareness and Prescription Drug Communications on Television: Evidence for Conflation and Misleading Product Impressions Health Commun. (IF 3.501) Pub Date : 2024-03-13 Kevin R. Betts, Kathryn J. Aikin, Stephanie Miles, Miriam H. Eisenberg Colman
We conducted two experiments that tested for conflation of fictitious disease awareness and prescription drug promotional communications in a television advertising context and whether similarity, ...
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Achieving Public Health Impact: Health Communication Research to Inform Tobacco Regulatory Science Health Commun. (IF 3.501) Pub Date : 2024-03-13 Seth M. Noar, Youjin Jang, Anh Nguyen Zarndt, Xiaoquan Zhao, Jennifer Cornacchione Ross, Joseph N. Cappella
Health communication research applies communication science to develop generalizable knowledge capable of improving the health and well-being of individuals and communities. But to what extent does...
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Podcasting as Storycrafting and Translational Health Communication Scholarship Health Commun. (IF 3.501) Pub Date : 2024-03-12 Lynn M. Harter, Joseph A. Bianco, Colin Cameron
Defining Moments is a podcast that extends the reach of articles published in Health Communication into public acoustic realms. In this essay, we locate Defining Moments in the broader realm of pod...
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What Drives Health Information Exchange on Social Media? Social Media Affordances and Social Support Perspectives Health Commun. (IF 3.501) Pub Date : 2024-03-13 Manli Wu, Tailai Wu, Yiming Pei
Despite the prevalence of health communication on social media, the mechanisms by which social media affect health information exchange have received less than adequate investigation. By integratin...
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Engagement with Adolescent Substance Prevention Messages: Impact and Dissemination of REAL Media Health Commun. (IF 3.501) Pub Date : 2024-03-13 Kathryn Greene, Michael L. Hecht
This article reviews the development and testing of a youth substance prevention program, REAL media. The contributions of this body of research include theoretical development, measurement, and di...
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Increasing Organ Donor Registrations in Motor Vehicles Offices Through Health Communication Health Commun. (IF 3.501) Pub Date : 2024-03-11 Thomas Hugh Feeley
Health communication research has played a prominent role in the body of scholarship seeking to meaningfully increase the number of life-saving organs available to waitlisted patients. The current ...
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Development and Initial Assessment of an Emotional Support Provision Training Intervention for Interpersonal Support Providers in the Context of Chronic Illness Health Commun. (IF 3.501) Pub Date : 2024-03-11 Charee M. Thompson, Heather L. Voorhees, Emiko Taniguchi-Dorios, Shana Makos, Kirsten Pool, Sara Babu
This study reports on the development and pilot testing of an emotional support provision training intervention for interpersonal support providers to those with chronic illnesses. Using findings f...
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The Pursuit of Positive Impacts: Translating Longitudinal Cancer Studies into Successful Health Communication Interventions Health Commun. (IF 3.501) Pub Date : 2024-03-11 Wayne A. Beach, David M. Dozier, Kyle M. Gutzmer, Chelsea Chapman
Over a decade ago, in the 100th issue of Health Communication (Volume 25, issues 6–7); 2010), 30 “impact” articles addressed how our collective research findings had been translated to make a posit...
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Effects of Scanning Health News Headlines on Trust in Science: An Emotional Framing Perspective Health Commun. (IF 3.501) Pub Date : 2024-03-07 Robin L. Nabi, Christopher M. Dobmeier, Chris L. Robbins, Debora Pérez Torres, Nathan Walter
Rooted in the emotions-as-frames model (EFM), this research examines how hope, fear, and annoyance are evoked through health news headline scanning, and how these emotions influence perceptions of ...
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Suicide in Song: A Thematic Analysis of 674 Songs Referencing Suicide Health Commun. (IF 3.501) Pub Date : 2024-03-07 Scott Parrott, Haseon Park
Music is a ubiquitous form of entertainment, engaging millions and providing emotional release for both musicians and listeners. Songs referencing suicide – a generally taboo subject – are common i...
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Testing Psychological Inoculation to Reduce Reactance to Vaccine-Related Communication Health Commun. (IF 3.501) Pub Date : 2024-03-07 Linda C. Karlsson, Karl O. Mäki, Dawn Holford, Angelo Fasce, Philipp Schmid, Stephan Lewandowsky, Anna Soveri
Research has found that vaccine-promoting messages can elicit state reactance (i.e., negative emotions in response to a perceived threat to behavioral freedom), especially among individuals with hi...
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The COMFORT Model: Moving the Initiative Outside of the Academy Health Commun. (IF 3.501) Pub Date : 2024-03-07 Joy V. Goldsmith, Elaine Wittenberg
Reflexive and prospective in nature, the creators of the COMFORT model describe experiences of moving this research outside of the academy. The COMFORT model represents the seven basic principles o...
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Mechanisms of Climate Change Media Effects: Roles of Risk Perception, Negative Emotion, and Efficacy Beliefs Health Commun. (IF 3.501) Pub Date : 2024-03-05 Hye-Jin Paek, Thomas Hove
In the context of climate change communication, this study explores the process through which exposure to media messages about a risk leads to recommended behavioral intentions. We propose a model ...
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Racial Disparities in Medical Crowdfunding: The Role of Sharing Disparity and Humanizing Narratives Health Commun. (IF 3.501) Pub Date : 2024-03-06 Xun Zhu
Americans have increasingly turned to online crowdfunding to pay for healthcare costs, but our understanding of the inequalities in medical crowdfunding remains limited. This study investigates rac...
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Correction Health Commun. (IF 3.501) Pub Date : 2024-03-03
Published in Health Communication (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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Impact of Perceived and Collective Norms on COVID-19 Preventive Behaviors in 23 Countries: A Multi-Level Approach Health Commun. (IF 3.501) Pub Date : 2024-02-29 Junhan Chen, Yuan Wang, Jiyoun Kim
Social norms can be studied at both the individual and societal levels. While the influence of individual perceived norms on health behaviors has been well-documented, the role of societal-level fa...
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Nudging Public Health Behaviors to Prevent COVID-19: A Systematic Review Health Commun. (IF 3.501) Pub Date : 2024-02-29 Chei Sian Lee, Kok Khiang Lim, Hye Kyung Kim
Many countries have implemented strict preventive measures and mandatory policies to curb virus transmission during the COVID-19 pandemic. Some have adopted softer approaches, such as nudge-based i...
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Toward Multidimensional Message Tailoring to Address COVID-19 and Influenza Vaccine-Hesitancy: A Latent Profile Analysis Approach Health Commun. (IF 3.501) Pub Date : 2024-02-26 Lijiang Shen
Vaccines remain the best strategy as the COVID-19 pandemic enters into later stages and governments begin to shed pandemic-control measures. Vaccine hesitancy continues to be a major obstacle in ef...
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Debunking Mental Health Misperceptions in Short-Form Social Media Videos: An Experimental Test of Scientific Credibility Cues Health Commun. (IF 3.501) Pub Date : 2024-02-22 Raffael Heiss, Leticia Bode, Zar Motik Adisuryo, Livia Brito, Ana Cuardra, Peng Gao, Yi Han, Megan Hearst, Kexin Huang, Andrea Kinyua, Tianan Lin, Yuwei Ma, Thomas Owen Manion, Youngjoo Roh, Ariana Salazar, Siqi Yue, Peizhen Zhang
In recent years, short-form social media videos have emerged as an important source of health-related advice. In this study, we investigate whether experts or ordinary users in such videos are more...
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Dying to Fit In: How Interpersonal Networks Shape COVID-19 Health Outcomes Through Discussion and Social Norms Health Commun. (IF 3.501) Pub Date : 2024-02-19 Stefanie Z. Demetriades, Nathan Walter, Emőke-Ágnes Horvát, Rod Abhari
Research has repeatedly demonstrated the ability of social networks, interpersonal discussion, and perceived social norms to shape health-related outcomes. There are still substantial gaps, however...
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Examining Children’s Experiences of Visiting Their Pediatrician: Insights into Communication, Actions, and Emotions Health Commun. (IF 3.501) Pub Date : 2024-02-19 Michele Capurso, Chiara Pazzagli
The way children experience a medical visit lays the groundwork for their health education and fosters trust and comfort in healthcare relationships. This study employed a retrospective and narrati...
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Highlighting Heroes and Ignoring Villains: Visual Framing of Polio and Polio Vaccine in Newspapers Health Commun. (IF 3.501) Pub Date : 2024-02-18 Muhammad Ittefaq, Taufiq Ahmad, Shafiq Ahmad Kamboh, Sayyed Fawad Ali Shah, Hyunjin Seo
Polio vaccine hesitancy remains high in Pakistan due to various socio-political, religious, and economic factors. To address this, the government of Pakistan and its international partners such as ...
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Correction Health Commun. (IF 3.501) Pub Date : 2024-02-14
Published in Health Communication (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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Trauma Isn’t One Size Fits All: How Online Support Communities Point to Different Diagnostic Criteria for C-PTSD and PTSD Health Commun. (IF 3.501) Pub Date : 2024-02-11 Weixi Wang, Kate G. Blackburn, Rachel M. Thompson, Karishma Bajaj, Rhea Pedler, Kelsie Fucci
Reddit has provided rich data on mental health discourse. The present study uses 40,335 online posts from Reddit communities to investigate how language can contribute to the understanding of PTSD ...
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Depolarized by the Media? The Role of Heterogeneous and Homogeneous Traditional and Digital Media Diets in Issue Polarization Around COVID-19 in the United States Health Commun. (IF 3.501) Pub Date : 2024-02-11 Natalia Bogado, David De Coninck, Maria Duque, Seth Schwartz
Research suggests that a heterogeneous media diet can foster more objective information evaluations, reducing issue polarization as a result. These findings beg the question: Can increased news het...
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When Arguments Meet a Story: An Experiment Testing Message Design Strategies for Skin Cancer Prevention and Detection Health Commun. (IF 3.501) Pub Date : 2024-02-07 Chun Zhou, Qinghua Yang
Persuasion research often suggests combining different message formats such as facts, statistics, and narratives in message design to maximize persuasive effects. However, the effect of the combina...
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Search Engine Use for Health-Related Purposes: Behavioral Data on Online Health Information-Seeking in Germany Health Commun. (IF 3.501) Pub Date : 2024-02-07 Marko Bachl, Elena Link, Frank Mangold, Sebastian Stier
Internet searches for health-related purposes are common, with search engines like Google being the most popular starting point. However, results on the popularity of health information-seeking beh...
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Medicalization of Neurodivergence and the Embodied Experience of ADHD Health Commun. (IF 3.501) Pub Date : 2024-02-07 Colin Cameron
Medicalization shapes, and in some cases legitimizes, individuals’ embodied experiences even as it molds the landscape of healthcare and treatment. In this essay I provide a layered account that mo...
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Exploring the Effects of Online Physician Voice Pitch Range and Filled Pauses on Patient Satisfaction in Mobile Health Communication Health Commun. (IF 3.501) Pub Date : 2024-02-05 Jingfang Liu, Huihong Jiang
The convenience of mobile devices has driven the widespread use of voice technology in mobile health communication, significantly improving the timeliness of online service. However, the issue of l...
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Using the Structural Influence Model to Explore U.S. Latina/O/X/E Undocumented Immigrants’ COVID-19 Information Acquisition, Perceptions, and Prevention Behaviors Health Commun. (IF 3.501) Pub Date : 2024-02-05 Nancy Molina-Rogers, Jennifer A. Kam, Monica Cornejo, Roselia Mendez Murillo
In the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic, U.S. undocumented immigrants were at heightened risk of contracting COVID-19, with many of them being “frontline essential workers” and residing in crowd...
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An Examination of Visually Impaired Individuals’ Uncertainty Management Health Commun. (IF 3.501) Pub Date : 2024-02-02 Lynsey Romo, Shana Makos, Marisa Hooper, Melissa Taussig, Montana Hamlet
Being visually impaired or legally blind (having vision that is uncorrectable or cannot be corrected to a legally acceptable level) is inherently uncertain. Although uncertainty can result in posit...
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Health Information as “Fodder for Fears”: A Qualitative Analysis of Types and Determinants of the Nonuse of Health Information Health Commun. (IF 3.501) Pub Date : 2024-02-05 Elena Link
As not all individuals are willing to pay attention to health information it is crucial to understand and distinguish the underlying motives and the scope of various nonuse behaviors. To increase c...
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The Landscape of Direct-To-Consumer Genetic Testing in Reproductive Health Contexts: An Analytical Framework of Stakeholders and Their Competing Motivations Health Commun. (IF 3.501) Pub Date : 2024-02-06 Elaine Hsieh, Brittney S. Morrissey, Isabella A. Chiareli
We propose a theoretical framework that identifies (a) the different categories of stakeholders and (b) the normative values that drive their attitudes toward direct-to-consumer genetic testing, wi...
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Misinformation, Risk Perceptions, and Intention to Seek Information About Masks: The Moderating Roles of Gender and Reflective Judgment Health Commun. (IF 3.501) Pub Date : 2024-02-01 Porismita Borah, Sojung Claire Kim, Kyle Lorenzano
The current study has three main purposes: to examine 1) the impact of theory-driven corrective messages using individual vs. collective frames on information-seeking intention 2) the mediating rol...
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Expanding the Health Narrative Frame Health Commun. (IF 3.501) Pub Date : 2024-01-29 James Pepper Kelly
How might we expand the frame of health narratives so as to avoid genre calcification and more effectively harness these stories’ transformative potential? This essay builds on the continued succes...
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Effects of Health Responsibility Frames on Attributions, Emotions, and Social Support Intentions in the Context of Dementias Health Commun. (IF 3.501) Pub Date : 2024-01-28 Mara Berlekamp, Doreen Reifegerste, Linn Julia Temmann
When news stories cover health and diseases, they often address issues of responsibility. These responsibility frames can affect recipients’ responsibility beliefs (i.e., attributions) and thereby ...
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Political Party Collective Norms, Perceived Norms, and Mask Wearing Behavior: A Test of the Theory of Normative Social Behavior Health Commun. (IF 3.501) Pub Date : 2024-01-28 Manusheela Pokharel, Helen M. Lillie, Jakob D. Jensen, Andy J. King, Chelsea L. Ratcliff, Joshua B. Barbour
The theory of normative social behavior (TNSB) postulates that people are influenced by others’ behaviors, which they observe from messages and experience. In addition to focusing on perceived (i.e...
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Emotional Shifts in Health Messages as a Strategy for Generating Talk and Behavior Change Health Commun. (IF 3.501) Pub Date : 2024-01-25 Susana Peinado, Robin L. Nabi
Although talk generated by health messages can spread message content and promote positive behavior change, little is known about what message features may be more likely to prompt conversation. Gi...
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Is Adolescents’ Cyber Dating Violence Perpetration Related to Problematic Pornography Use? The Moderating Role of Hostile Sexism Health Commun. (IF 3.501) Pub Date : 2024-01-15 Mara Morelli, Maria Rosaria Nappa, Antonio Chirumbolo, Paul J. Wright, Sara Pabian, Roberto Baiocco, Angela Costabile, Emiddia Longobardi, Elena Cattelino
Intimate partner violence is an important public health problem. Cyber dating violence (CDV) is a form of intimate partner violence perpetrated within a dating relationship via new communication te...
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The Role of Collective Group Orientation and Social Norms on Physical Distancing Behaviors for Disease Prevention Health Commun. (IF 3.501) Pub Date : 2024-01-15 Hyungro Yoon, Youjin Jang, Maria Knight Lapinski, Monique Mitchell Turner, Tai-Quan Peng, Sanguk Lee
To reduce the impact of communicable diseases like COVID-19, collective action is required and likely to be susceptible to normative influence as well as whether people are more or less collectivel...
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Framing Chronic Pain in U.S. News Coverage of the Opioid Epidemic (2012-2022) Health Commun. (IF 3.501) Pub Date : 2024-01-12 Jacqueline N. Gunning, Lili R. Romann, Elizabeth A. Hintz
Chronic pain, pain persisting longer than six months, afflicts 20% of the U.S. population and is the leading cause of disability. To manage pain, many chronic pain patients (CPPs) and healthcare pr...
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LGBTQ+ Peer Advocates’ Health Communication Praxis for College Student Health Outreach and Intersectional Needs Health Commun. (IF 3.501) Pub Date : 2024-01-12 Elizabeth K. Eger, Melinda M. Villagran, Marsha Burney
The following essay examines health communication outreach for LGBTQ+ college students through analyzing both the design and exit evaluation of a federally funded United States public health progra...
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“Sorry for Holding You Up”: Surgeons’ Apologies for Lateness in Clinic Settings Health Commun. (IF 3.501) Pub Date : 2024-01-04 Sarah J. White, Ken Ho, Kushagar Maini, Rhea Liang
Doctors running late may convey a lack of respect which can impair the therapeutic relationship. This study examines how surgeons address lateness in consultations with patients. We analyzed 52 con...
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Overcoming Health Information Inequities: Valley fever Information Repertoires Among Vulnerable Communities in California Health Commun. (IF 3.501) Pub Date : 2024-01-04 Camille J. Saucier, Zexin Ma, Jorge A. Montoya, Aaron Plant, Sapna Suresh, Chris L. Robbins, Renee Fraser
Although Valley fever represents a growing public health challenge for Central and Southern Californian residents, awareness remains severely limited. The California Department of Public Health (CD...
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#workoutathome: How Instructions in the Captions of Fitfluencers’ Posts Impact Adolescents’ Body Satisfaction and Intention to Exercise Health Commun. (IF 3.501) Pub Date : 2024-01-03 Marloes de Brabandere, Ini Vanwesenbeeck, Liselot Hudders, Verolien Cauberghe
The present study examines how content of fitfluencers can be employed to improve body satisfaction and intention to exercise among adolescents. Specifically, this experimental study (N = 114 adole...
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The Effect of Characteristics of Patient Communication on Physician Feedback in Online Health Communities: An Observational Cross-Sectional Study Health Commun. (IF 3.501) Pub Date : 2024-01-03 Jusheng Liu, Mei Song, Chaoran Li, Shanshan Guo, Jingti Han
With the rapid development of e-health and telemedicine, previous studies have explored the relationship between physician-patient communication and patient satisfaction; however, there is a paucit...
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Correction Health Commun. (IF 3.501) Pub Date : 2024-01-03
Published in Health Communication (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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“I Know News Will Find Me”: Examining the Relationship Between the “News-Finds-Me” Perception and COVID-19 Misperceptions Health Commun. (IF 3.501) Pub Date : 2024-01-02 Lianshan Zhang, Shaohai Jiang
In the current media environment, some individuals have shifted from actively monitoring news toward passively waiting for the media to alert them about news to a certain extent, forming a “news-fi...
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Examining Conversation Analysis in Palliative Care: A Systematic Review Health Commun. (IF 3.501) Pub Date : 2024-01-02 Yijin Wu, Xin Zhang
Communication is an integral component in palliative care. A number of studies have used conversation analysis (CA) to examine communication between healthcare professionals (HCPs) and patients/com...
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Predicting Public Cooperation with Face Covering at the Early Phases of COVID-19: Building Public Trust, Confidence, Knowledge Through Governmental Two-Way Symmetrical Communication Health Commun. (IF 3.501) Pub Date : 2024-01-02 Jo-Yun Li, Yeunjae Lee
Despite the agreement on the importance of two-way communication during governmental response to pandemics, few studies provided empirical evidence to support the effectiveness of such communicatio...
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Descriptive Norms and eHealth Use Among Older Adults: A Cross-Country Comparative Study Health Commun. (IF 3.501) Pub Date : 2023-12-26 Qiaofei Wu, Annabel Ngien, Shaohai Jiang
eHealth use enables older adults to access and manage healthcare resources, and benefits their health; however, older adults’ uptake of eHealth remains low across societies. Social influences such ...
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Time to Treat the Climate and Nature Crisis as One Indivisible Global Health Emergency Health Commun. (IF 3.501) Pub Date : 2023-12-27 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 Health Communication (Vol. 39, No. 1, 2024)
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Unraveling the Dark Side of Social Norms—Toward a Research Agenda on the Challenges of Social Norms in Health Communication Health Commun. (IF 3.501) Pub Date : 2023-12-26 Sarah Geber
Social norms are a promising means in health crisis communication because they can guide collective action to reduce risk. However, recent research on the COVID-19 pandemic suggests that social nor...
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Situating Health Experiences: A Culture-Centered Interrogation Health Commun. (IF 3.501) Pub Date : 2023-12-22 Phoebe Elers, Mohan J. Dutta
Culture-centered studies of health communication de-center the theorization of health as an individual behavior and reveal the structural conditions that shape inequalities in health outcomes. The ...
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“I Remember Feeling Pretty Darn lucky”: Crafting Family Resilience in Response to a Medical Emergency Health Commun. (IF 3.501) Pub Date : 2023-12-19 Sophie S. Downing
Through a combination of autoethnographic reflections and oral history interviews with my parents, I explore the ways in which we enacted resilience throughout my father’s unexpected hospitalizatio...
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The Relevance of Communication Between Alzheimer’s Patients and Their Caregivers. Effective Prosody Strategies to Improve Communication Health Commun. (IF 3.501) Pub Date : 2023-12-20 Emma Rodero, Lluís Mas, Olatz Larrea, Isabel Rodríguez-de-Dios, Carme de-la-Mota
One of the most critical factors in Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is communication between patients and caregivers. A relevant part of the way of speaking is what is known as prosody, or the variations ...
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Exploring the Role of Marianismo and Loneliness in Latinas’ Physical and Mental Well-Being Health Commun. (IF 3.501) Pub Date : 2023-12-19 Monica L. Gallegos, Chris Segrin
The goal of this study is to better understand the role of social relationships and traditional gender norms in Latina health. Utilizing Hawkley and Cacioppo’s theoretical model of loneliness and h...