Health CommunicationPub Date : 2024-11-01Epub Date: 2024-01-25DOI: 10.1080/10410236.2024.2305552
Susana Peinado, Robin L Nabi
{"title":"Emotional Shifts in Health Messages as a Strategy for Generating Talk and Behavior Change.","authors":"Susana Peinado, Robin L Nabi","doi":"10.1080/10410236.2024.2305552","DOIUrl":"10.1080/10410236.2024.2305552","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>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. Given theoretical and research support for sequential emotional experiences to increase the intensity of emotion and the extent of engagement with the emotional content - both of which are expected to positively influence talk and persuasion - we examined whether shifts in emotion within a health message influenced these outcomes. In a longitudinal experiment, we compared the effects of two texting while driving prevention messages containing a shift in emotional valence (negative to positive and positive to negative) with two single-valence emotional messages (negative-only and positive-only) on talk and persuasion (<i>N</i> = 333). Results indicated that emotional shift messages generated more talk than single-valence messages because they elicited greater emotional intensity and deeper message processing. These variables also mediated the effect of emotional shift messages on persuasion both immediately following message exposure and one week later, though intentions to avoid texting while driving immediately after message exposure had a greater influence on beliefs and behavior at the one-week follow-up than talk. These findings suggest that talk may play a more important role in spreading message content and reinforcing message-generated change rather than creating change itself.</p>","PeriodicalId":12889,"journal":{"name":"Health Communication","volume":" ","pages":"3145-3158"},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2024-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139546097","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}
Health CommunicationPub Date : 2024-11-01Epub Date: 2024-01-28DOI: 10.1080/10410236.2024.2307204
Mara Berlekamp, Doreen Reifegerste, Linn Julia Temmann
{"title":"Effects of Health Responsibility Frames on Attributions, Emotions, and Social Support Intentions in the Context of Dementias.","authors":"Mara Berlekamp, Doreen Reifegerste, Linn Julia Temmann","doi":"10.1080/10410236.2024.2307204","DOIUrl":"10.1080/10410236.2024.2307204","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>When news stories cover health and diseases, they often address issues of responsibility. These <i>responsibility frames</i> can affect recipients' responsibility beliefs (i.e., attributions) and thereby affect emotions and motivations to support people affected by health problems. To date, it is not fully understood how responsibility frames affect these attributions, emotions, and social support intentions in the context of dementia. In an online experiment with <i>N</i> = 1,059 German participants, we tested the effects of different responsibility frames (individual vs. contextual) on social support intentions through responsibility attributions and emotional reactions in the context of dementia. Results show that responsibility frames affect responsibility attributions and social support intentions. Mediation analysis shows that the effect of contextual responsibility frames on social support intention is partially mediated by responsibility attribution and emotions (sympathy and anger). We discuss these findings considering framing effects research and media coverage.</p>","PeriodicalId":12889,"journal":{"name":"Health Communication","volume":" ","pages":"3159-3169"},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2024-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139569588","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}
Health CommunicationPub Date : 2024-11-01Epub Date: 2024-01-28DOI: 10.1080/10410236.2024.2309003
Manusheela Pokharel, Helen M Lillie, Jakob D Jensen, Andy J King, Chelsea L Ratcliff, Joshua B Barbour
{"title":"Political Party Collective Norms, Perceived Norms, and Mask Wearing Behavior: A Test of the Theory of Normative Social Behavior.","authors":"Manusheela Pokharel, Helen M Lillie, Jakob D Jensen, Andy J King, Chelsea L Ratcliff, Joshua B Barbour","doi":"10.1080/10410236.2024.2309003","DOIUrl":"10.1080/10410236.2024.2309003","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>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., descriptive and injunctive) norms, the TNSB was expanded to include collective norms, which represent what people <i>actually</i> do. Testing this expanded theoretical model, the current study examined whether two types of collective norms - collective political norms and collective regional norms - interacted with descriptive norms to influence pandemic mask wearing behavior expectations among U.S. adults (<i>N</i> = 444). The interaction was statistically significant for collective political norms (<i>β</i> = -.74, <i>p</i> = .009) but not collective regional norms (<i>β</i> = -.16, <i>p</i> = .85). Specifically, descriptive norms were related to increased mask wearing expectation for all values of political party collective norms, but the effects were stronger when political party collective norms were low (i.e., low mask wearing behavior was normative). The findings support the inclusion of collective norms in the TNSB, clarify the relationships among different types of norms, and provide insights for norms-based interventions.</p>","PeriodicalId":12889,"journal":{"name":"Health Communication","volume":" ","pages":"3170-3179"},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2024-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11283579/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139569589","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Health CommunicationPub Date : 2024-11-01Epub Date: 2024-01-12DOI: 10.1080/10410236.2023.2301203
Elizabeth K Eger, Melinda M Villagran, Marsha Burney
{"title":"LGBTQ+ Peer Advocates' Health Communication Praxis for College Student Health Outreach and Intersectional Needs.","authors":"Elizabeth K Eger, Melinda M Villagran, Marsha Burney","doi":"10.1080/10410236.2023.2301203","DOIUrl":"10.1080/10410236.2023.2301203","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>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 program. SHARE-Pride was a three-year health intervention program that served LGBTQ+ students ages 18-24 at Southern University (SU)-a Hispanic and Minority Serving Institution. Because of structural barriers creating sexual health and drug and alcohol consumption risks, SHARE-Pride (SP) used a peer advocate model for students to develop mentoring relationships with LGBTQ+ peers to increase health knowledge. We first present health literature that informed SP's design and then examine research that shaped our exit study to understand advocates' intersectional identities and experiences as impacting their health communication outreach. We share rich findings from our interviews with 12 students, including communication approaches for LGBTQ+ health, increasing health communication inclusive of the full LGBTQ+ spectrum, and the role of intersectionality in LGBTQ+ health communication. We conclude with health communication praxis for future LGBTQ+ health programs and research.</p>","PeriodicalId":12889,"journal":{"name":"Health Communication","volume":" ","pages":"3084-3096"},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2024-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139424631","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}
Health CommunicationPub Date : 2024-11-01Epub Date: 2024-02-06DOI: 10.1080/10410236.2024.2312607
Elaine Hsieh, Brittney S Morrissey, Isabella A Chiareli
{"title":"The Landscape of Direct-To-Consumer Genetic Testing in Reproductive Health Contexts: An Analytical Framework of Stakeholders and Their Competing Motivations.","authors":"Elaine Hsieh, Brittney S Morrissey, Isabella A Chiareli","doi":"10.1080/10410236.2024.2312607","DOIUrl":"10.1080/10410236.2024.2312607","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>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, with an emphasis on the reproductive health contexts. We conducted a literature search using varied combinations of search terms, including direct-to-consumer genetic testing, decision-making, reproductive health, and policy. Using a grounded theory approach to existing literature and in combination with a narrative review, we present a systematic framework of five categories of stakeholders (i.e., genome-driven stakeholders, industry-driven stakeholders, history-driven stakeholders, value-driven stakeholders, and social justice-driven stakeholders) that shape the public's discourse. Moving beyond the dialectical ethics that have governed the public discourse, we also identify the normative values and interests that motivate different stakeholders' attitudes and decision-making through theoretical sampling under the grounded theory. We investigate the competing and conflicting values within the same category of stakeholders. For example, despite being industry-driven stakeholders, medical professionals' attitudes are driven by concerns about standards of care; in contrast, health insurance companies' concerns are centered on profit. We further explore the tensions between these stakeholders that impact their strategic alliances and pose challenges to the practices of direct-to-consumer genetic testing. Finally, we examine how these stakeholders and their corresponding values may shape future development and policies of direct-to-consumer genetic testing in the context of reproductive health.</p>","PeriodicalId":12889,"journal":{"name":"Health Communication","volume":" ","pages":"3211-3224"},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2024-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139691665","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}
Health CommunicationPub Date : 2024-11-01Epub Date: 2023-11-23DOI: 10.1080/10410236.2023.2281075
Maria Elizabeth Grabe, Danielle K Brown, Jimmy Ochieng, John Bryden, Ranada D Robinson, Yong-Yeol Ahn, Alana Moss, Wei Wang
{"title":"The Social Contagion Potential of Pro-Vaccine Messages on Black Twitter.","authors":"Maria Elizabeth Grabe, Danielle K Brown, Jimmy Ochieng, John Bryden, Ranada D Robinson, Yong-Yeol Ahn, Alana Moss, Wei Wang","doi":"10.1080/10410236.2023.2281075","DOIUrl":"10.1080/10410236.2023.2281075","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Black Americans in the US not only suffered from disproportionately high hospitalization and death rates throughout the pandemic but also from the consequences of low COVID-19 vaccination rates. This pattern of disparity is linked to distrust of public health systems that originates from a history of medical atrocities committed against Black people. For that reason, mitigation of race-based inequity in COVID-19 impacts might find more success in grassroots information contagion than official public health campaigns. While Black Twitter is well-positioned as a conduit for such information contagion, little is known about message characteristics that would afford it. Here, we tested the impact of four different message frames (personalization, interactive, fear appeal, neutral) on the social contagion potential of bi-modal social media messages promoting COVID-19 vaccinations and finding personalized messages to be the most shareable. Wary of recommending personalization as the blueprint for setting a social contagion health campaign in motion, we probed further to understand the influence of individual-level variables on the communicability of personalized messages. Subsequently, regression models and focus group data were consulted, revealing that thinking styles, vaccine confidence levels, and attitudes toward social media were significant factors of influence on the contagion potential of personalized messages. We discussed the implications of these results for health campaigns.</p>","PeriodicalId":12889,"journal":{"name":"Health Communication","volume":" ","pages":"2598-2609"},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2024-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138295077","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":"Acquiring Social Support in an Online HPV Support Group: Exploring the Roles of Threat and Efficacy.","authors":"Liang Chen, Lunrui Fu, Xiaodong Yang, Linhan Li, Sitong Ding","doi":"10.1080/10410236.2023.2287276","DOIUrl":"10.1080/10410236.2023.2287276","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Social media have become crucial communication channels for human papilloma virus (HPV) patients to seek and receive social support that can benefit their physical and psychological health. To promote supportive communication on online social platforms, we analyzed 96,543 messages, including 7,407 posts and 89,136 comments, concerning social support on Baidu HPV Forum, one of China's largest online HPV support groups. We examined factors (i.e., threat and efficacy) in posts requesting social support associated with the amount of social support received in comments. Results revealed that the majority of social support messages received in comments represented informational support, whereas relatively few comments featured instrumental social support. Beyond that, high-threat, non-efficacy posts requesting social support received a greater amount of informational and emotional support in the comments than other types of posts requesting social support. Theoretical and practical implications of our study are discussed as well.</p>","PeriodicalId":12889,"journal":{"name":"Health Communication","volume":" ","pages":"2756-2766"},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2024-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138477460","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}
Health CommunicationPub Date : 2024-11-01Epub Date: 2023-12-22DOI: 10.1080/10410236.2023.2296772
Phoebe Elers, Mohan J Dutta
{"title":"Situating Health Experiences: A Culture-Centered Interrogation.","authors":"Phoebe Elers, Mohan J Dutta","doi":"10.1080/10410236.2023.2296772","DOIUrl":"10.1080/10410236.2023.2296772","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>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 present study examines the ways in which space and housing shape experiences of health in a low-income site in Auckland undergoing radical redevelopment. We draw from a culture-centered project undertaken in 2018-2021 predominantly among Māori and Pasifika peoples involving 60 initial in-depth interviews, seven focus groups, a series of filmed interviews, and 32 additional in-depth interviews conducted during the COVID-19 pandemic. The residents' narratives foregrounded the detrimental health impact of inadequate housing, financial constraints, transience, and displacement that severs ties to place and community. These findings reveal the relationship between housing challenges, economic marginalization, and neoliberal capitalism, highlighting the need for policy interventions to address housing as a fundamental determinant of health disparities among marginalized communities.</p>","PeriodicalId":12889,"journal":{"name":"Health Communication","volume":" ","pages":"2963-2970"},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2024-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138829320","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}
Health CommunicationPub Date : 2024-11-01Epub Date: 2023-12-26DOI: 10.1080/10410236.2023.2297120
Qiaofei Wu, Annabel Ngien, Shaohai Jiang
{"title":"Descriptive Norms and eHealth Use Among Older Adults: A Cross-Country Comparative Study.","authors":"Qiaofei Wu, Annabel Ngien, Shaohai Jiang","doi":"10.1080/10410236.2023.2297120","DOIUrl":"10.1080/10410236.2023.2297120","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>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 as descriptive norms may be of critical importance in promoting the elderly's usage of eHealth. Based on the Integrative Model of Behavioral Prediction, this study investigates how descriptive norms relate to eHealth use among the elderly in China and the United States. Analysis of the combined sample (<i>N</i> = 1,070) showed that descriptive norms were positively related to eHealth use. Also, descriptive norms were indirectly associated with eHealth use via injunctive norms, attitudes and self-efficacy. Moderated mediation analysis indicated that these direct and indirect relationships differed across the two countries. This study highlights the important role of descriptive norms in promoting older adults' eHealth use behavior and addresses potential country differences in how the elderly respond to descriptive norms. Several important theoretical and practical implications are also discussed.</p>","PeriodicalId":12889,"journal":{"name":"Health Communication","volume":" ","pages":"2971-2982"},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2024-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139039757","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}