Sean M McCrea, Matthew R Helm, J Lukas Thürmer, C J Erion, Ashlyn Bailey, Kem Krueger
{"title":"Apologizing for Intergroup Criticism Reduces Rejection of Public Health Officials' Pro-Vaccine Messages.","authors":"Sean M McCrea, Matthew R Helm, J Lukas Thürmer, C J Erion, Ashlyn Bailey, Kem Krueger","doi":"10.1080/10410236.2024.2406109","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10410236.2024.2406109","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Compared to other medical experts, public health officials face added scrutiny of their pro-vaccine messages due to distrust of the US federal government. We consider reactions to such critical messages through the lens of conversational norms. Conversational pragmatics suggest that polite communication is essentially cooperative in nature, avoiding criticism of the other or excessive praise of the self. Applied to intergroup communication, this suggests that critical messages from outgroups will be viewed as impolite. Distrusted outgroup sources (such as government officials) are particularly expected to be uncooperative and impolite, increasing message rejection. Importantly, this perspective suggests that apologizing for the norm violation should mitigate these effects. Applying this reasoning to scientific messaging, we demonstrate that a message critical of the under-vaccinated is more likely to be rejected if made by a US federal public health official than by a private medical expert. However, this effect is reduced if the public health official apologizes in advance for violating the norm against criticizing other groups. Improved perceptions of the apologizing source's motives and reduced message threat were associated with higher vaccination intentions. Practical and theoretical implications for intergroup communication are discussed.</p>","PeriodicalId":12889,"journal":{"name":"Health Communication","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2024-09-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142345233","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Assessing Theoretical Mediators of Campaign-Induced Communication in the Context of Social Norms Campaign.","authors":"Sunyoung Park","doi":"10.1080/10410236.2024.2408507","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10410236.2024.2408507","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The present paper examines the role of campaign-induced communication on the effects of a social norms campaign by focusing on cognitive elaboration, perceived injunctive norms, and message recall as mediating variables. Participants (<i>n</i> = 252; <math><mrow><msub><mi>m</mi><mrow><mi>age</mi></mrow></msub></mrow></math> = 20.26) read an injunctive norms campaign message about choosing not to drink at parties or when socializing and were randomly assigned to one of three conditions (<i>control</i>: received no prompts, <i>prompt only</i>; received prompts to engage in interpersonal communication about the campaign message with close others during the following week; <i>prompt & plan</i>: received prompts to engage in interpersonal communication with close others during the following week and to write a plan for the communication). The results revealed that the prompt (either alone or with the plan) significantly motivated participants to engage in positive conversations about the campaign message during the next week. Similar to past findings, higher frequency of positive conversations about the campaign message indirectly predicted better behavioral outcomes via higher cognitive elaboration. The findings suggest that social norms campaign developers should be encouraged to design social norms messages with a brief prompt to motivate the target audience to engage in interpersonal communication and need to account for such interpersonal communication and its indirect effects in evaluating campaign messages.</p>","PeriodicalId":12889,"journal":{"name":"Health Communication","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2024-09-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142345235","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Searching for Love and Babies: A Qualitative Study on Online Social Support Among Women with Infertility.","authors":"Yujun Lin, Shuaishuai Li","doi":"10.1080/10410236.2024.2403663","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10410236.2024.2403663","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>With the popularity of computer-mediated communication, accessing online social support has become more accessible for women confronting infertility, yet the role of such support for Chinese women remains understudied. This study investigates the online social support experiences of Chinese women navigating infertility within the framework of Cutrona and Suhr's social support. Employing netnography and semi-structured interviews alongside thematic analysis, the findings highlight challenges in informational support due to limitations in online information dissemination, with some degree of overlap observed between informational support and network support. Emotional support proves crucial and esteem support aids in mitigating self-blame among online forum members. Tangible assistance primarily involves expressed willingness to help. This research advances social support theory by exploring new areas, clarifying online support mechanisms using Daena Goldsmith's normative approach, highlighting sociocultural influences, and enhancing understanding of esteem support in the context of stigmatization.</p>","PeriodicalId":12889,"journal":{"name":"Health Communication","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2024-09-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142345241","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Arunima Krishna, James J Cummings, Yi Grace Ji, Chris Chao Su, Rosalynn A Vasquez, Michelle A Amazeen
{"title":"Predicting Health Misperceptions: The Role of eHealth Literacy and Situational Perceptions.","authors":"Arunima Krishna, James J Cummings, Yi Grace Ji, Chris Chao Su, Rosalynn A Vasquez, Michelle A Amazeen","doi":"10.1080/10410236.2024.2406565","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10410236.2024.2406565","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This study sought to understand how health misperceptions develop among individuals after exposure to misinformation messages, and how eHealth literacy and situational motivation in problem solving are associated with the negative effects of misinformation exposure. We also sought to understand the differentiated effects of misinformation exposure on the four misinformation-susceptible publics. Results from two studies revealed that situational motivation was positively associated with the formation of misperceptions after misinformation exposure as well as individuals' likelihood of amplifying the misinformation message. However, eHealth literacy does not reduce misperceptions, as had been hypothesized. In fact, eHealth literacy was not significantly associated with misperceptions or with misinformation amplification likelihood. Results also provide support for the typology of misinformation-susceptible publics as misinformation-amplifying publics were the most susceptible to misinformation messages.</p>","PeriodicalId":12889,"journal":{"name":"Health Communication","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2024-09-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142345240","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Making the Invisible Visible: How Chronic Illness Changes Narrative and the Autoethnographic Perspective.","authors":"Suzanne Kesler Rumsey","doi":"10.1080/10410236.2024.2407702","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10410236.2024.2407702","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Autoethnography and narrative have long been used in health research, particularly as tools for understanding and exploring personal experiences with illness. As an autoethnographer, I employed this methodology in almost all of my previous academic work, and I thought I knew it well. However, when I approached narrating and investigating my rare, invisible, chronic illness, my understanding of the methodology was challenged; the emic and etic perspectives are complicated when sharing what is inside my own body.</p>","PeriodicalId":12889,"journal":{"name":"Health Communication","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2024-09-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142345238","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Pathways Linking Online Physician-Patient Communication to Health Outcomes.","authors":"Lijuan Chen, Rui He","doi":"10.1080/10410236.2024.2406114","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10410236.2024.2406114","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Online platforms have proliferated in response to the increasing demand for online medical services. However, the underlying mechanisms through which online physician‒patient communication are associated with better health outcomes are under-researched. We employed mixed focus groups and in-depth interviews to investigate the impact of online physician‒patient communication on health outcomes, including psychological and physical quality of life, as well as perceived diagnosticity. A modified pathway framework was subsequently generated to illustrate the relationship between online communication and health outcomes based on the clinician‒patient communication pathway model. Overall, we redefined the concept of perceived diagnosticity in online healthcare and identified an indirect pathway through which psychological quality of life affects physical quality of life mediated by perceived diagnosticity.</p>","PeriodicalId":12889,"journal":{"name":"Health Communication","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2024-09-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142345239","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Tianen Chen, Minhao Dai, Christopher Calabrese, Kelly Merrill Jr.
{"title":"Dyadic and Longitudinal Influences of Sexual Communication on Relationship Satisfaction, Emotional Intimacy, and Daily Affect Among Same-Sex Male Couples","authors":"Tianen Chen, Minhao Dai, Christopher Calabrese, Kelly Merrill Jr.","doi":"10.1080/10410236.2024.2400813","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10410236.2024.2400813","url":null,"abstract":"The influences of sexual communication on relational outcomes have garnered attention in the current literature, but such dynamics have seldom been explored among same-sex couples using dyadic, lon...","PeriodicalId":12889,"journal":{"name":"Health Communication","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":3.9,"publicationDate":"2024-09-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142262692","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Online Art-Based Interventions from Peer Influencers to Reduce Mental Health Stigma: A Randomized-Controlled Trial","authors":"Frances J. Griffith, Catherine H. Stein","doi":"10.1080/10410236.2024.2403171","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10410236.2024.2403171","url":null,"abstract":"Stigmatizing perceptions of people with mental health conditions continue to frame them as dangerous, weak-willed, flawed, and culpable for their symptoms. Guided by social contact and social role ...","PeriodicalId":12889,"journal":{"name":"Health Communication","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":3.9,"publicationDate":"2024-09-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142262888","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Media Literacy and Its Potential Influence on Mpox-Related Perceptions and Prevention Intentions in China During the 2022 Multi-Country Outbreak of Mpox.","authors":"Siwen Huang, Jingtao Zhou, Qingyu Li, Yuhang Zhang, Yutong Xu, Yan Li, Yongkang Xiao, Wei Ma, Lin He, Xianlong Ren, Zhen Dai, Jiaruo Sun, Kedi Jiao, Feng Cheng, Wannian Liang, Meiqi Xin, Sitong Luo","doi":"10.1080/10410236.2024.2400391","DOIUrl":"10.1080/10410236.2024.2400391","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Media literacy plays an increasingly important role in health communication during public health emergencies. The present study aimed to investigate the level of media literacy and its association with disease perceptions and behavioral intentions of receiving vaccination services among young men who have sex with men (YMSM) in China during the 2022 multi-country mpox outbreak. The data were from a large-scale cross-sectional survey conducted among 2,493 YMSM aged 18-29 years in six provincial regions in China in September 2022. A total of 2,079 YMSM who had obtained mpox information from social media platforms were included in this study. Correlation analysis and path analysis were conducted. The mean age of the sample was 24.7. After controlling for background variables, significant positive correlations were found in several pairs between media literacy, mpox-related perceptions (including perceived susceptibility to mpox, perceived severity of mpox, perceived benefits of mpox vaccination, and self-efficacy of receiving mpox vaccination), and the behavioral intention of receiving mpox vaccination. The mpox-related perceptions played a significant mediation role in the association between media literacy and intention of receiving mpox vaccination (indirect effect = 0.165, <i>p</i> < .001, effect size = 82.1%). Media literacy is crucial for developing disease perceptions during public health emergencies and may further influence the adoption of preventive measures. As social media platforms have become the main battle field of health communication during disease outbreaks, improvement of media literacy is urgently warranted.</p>","PeriodicalId":12889,"journal":{"name":"Health Communication","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2024-09-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142284535","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Mobile Patient-Provider Communication and Lifestyle Improvement: Examining the Role of Mobile Technology Identity and Health Empowerment.","authors":"Piper Liping Liu,Jizhou Francis Ye","doi":"10.1080/10410236.2024.2402160","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10410236.2024.2402160","url":null,"abstract":"In the span of a decade, smartphones have gained popularity and acceptance among both patients and physicians thanks to their advantages in health care delivery. However, research investigating mobile patient-provider communication (MPPC) and its impact on patients' lifestyles is only just beginning. Drawing on the pathway model of health communication and mobile technology (MTI) theory, we developed a research model to explore the effect of MPPC on lifestyle improvement, using health empowerment as a mediator and MTI as a moderator. The findings from 432 participants (Mage = 32.5 years old, female = 212) suggested that after controlling for respondents' age, gender, education, income, and general health status, having greater communication with healthcare providers through mobile devices was positively related to lifestyle improvement and that health empowerment mediated this relationship. Moreover, MTI-emotional energy (MTIE) moderated the direct relationship between MPPC and lifestyle improvement, while MTI-dependency (MTID) moderated the indirect impact of MPPC. Individuals who hold a greater MTIE/MTID were more likely to benefit from MPPC such that they are more likely to be empowered for self-care and maintain healthy lifestyles. This study not only contributes to the growing literature on mobile health communication but also plays a reference role for interventions in patient empowerment and health promotion. Theoretical and practical implications were discussed.","PeriodicalId":12889,"journal":{"name":"Health Communication","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":3.9,"publicationDate":"2024-09-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142204442","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}