Health CommunicationPub Date : 2024-11-01Epub Date: 2023-09-15DOI: 10.1080/10410236.2023.2258310
Karishma Chatterjee, Charla Markham Shaw, Grace Ellen Brannon, Chyng-Yang Jang, Thomas Bryan Christie, Juliann Rodriguez, Vinicio Sinta
{"title":"COVID-19 Vaccination Hesitancies: A Spanish-Language Focus Group Analysis in Texas.","authors":"Karishma Chatterjee, Charla Markham Shaw, Grace Ellen Brannon, Chyng-Yang Jang, Thomas Bryan Christie, Juliann Rodriguez, Vinicio Sinta","doi":"10.1080/10410236.2023.2258310","DOIUrl":"10.1080/10410236.2023.2258310","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>COVID-19 related health disparities are prevalent among higher risk populations like the Hispanic community. Vaccination is one readily available public health tool, yet vaccine uptake is lower among minority populations and hesitations and concerns are high. In the present study, interpersonal and media sources of information about COVID-19 were discussed in a series of six focus groups with Spanish-language dominant and bilingual English-Spanish respondents in a large metropolitan area in Texas. Participants reported using legacy media as a main source of information about COVID-19 vaccines and encountered conspiracy theories and misinformation on social media. Using the Health Belief Model as the theoretical lens, we found individuals' and family members' perceived susceptibility to COVID-19 played a part in participants wanting to find and get the vaccine. Provider recommendations may have served as cues to action. Ease of receiving the vaccines at church and pharmacies may have served to boost participants self-efficacy. Perceived barriers include vaccine specific reasons such as the fast pace of initial authorization, side effects, and long-term effects along with conspiracy theories. Prevailing information gaps regarding the COVID-19 vaccines and the resulting uncertainty are discussed. Understanding information sources and the trust Hispanic communities place in these sources is important in designing effective health messages.</p>","PeriodicalId":12889,"journal":{"name":"Health Communication","volume":" ","pages":"2431-2442"},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2024-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10235364","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: 2024-02-05DOI: 10.1080/10410236.2024.2313791
Jingfang Liu, Huihong Jiang
{"title":"Exploring the Effects of Online Physician Voice Pitch Range and Filled Pauses on Patient Satisfaction in Mobile Health Communication.","authors":"Jingfang Liu, Huihong Jiang","doi":"10.1080/10410236.2024.2313791","DOIUrl":"10.1080/10410236.2024.2313791","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>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 listening to therapeutic content, which requires great cognitive effort and may exceed the patient's information processing capacity (i.e., information overload), is of concern. Based on information processing theory, this study reports how online physicians' voice characteristics (pitch range and filled pauses) affect patient satisfaction. We obtained 10,585 mobile voice consultation records of 1,416 doctors from China's largest mHealth platform and analyzed them using audio mining and empirical methods. Results showed that pitch range (β = 0.0539, <i>p</i> < .01) and filled pauses (β = 0.0365, <i>p</i> < .01) in doctors' voice positively influenced online patient satisfaction. However, the effect of filled pauses becomes weaker for patients with higher health literacy and higher disease risk. This suggests that there is heterogeneity in the way different patients process audio information. This study provides important insights for guiding online physician behaviors, enhancing patient satisfaction, and improving mobile health platform management.</p>","PeriodicalId":12889,"journal":{"name":"Health Communication","volume":" ","pages":"3258-3271"},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2024-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139691663","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: 2024-02-07DOI: 10.1080/10410236.2024.2311471
Colin Cameron
{"title":"Medicalization of Neurodivergence and the Embodied Experience of ADHD.","authors":"Colin Cameron","doi":"10.1080/10410236.2024.2311471","DOIUrl":"10.1080/10410236.2024.2311471","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>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 moves between my experiences as a neurodivergent person and academic theorizing to explore how processes of medicalization inform public discourses and personal sensemaking. In the case of ADHD, medicalization has contributed to societal narratives that focus on symptoms of hyperactivity rather than the etiology of dopamine dysregulation. Such narratives fail to fully account for the lived experience of ADHD and inadvertently stigmatize neurodivergent individuals. I urge scholars and practitioners to direct more attention to the communicative dimensions of medicalization including both the rhetorical nature of the diagnostic process and how diagnoses, in turn, are rhetorically framed with varying consequences.</p>","PeriodicalId":12889,"journal":{"name":"Health Communication","volume":" ","pages":"3507-3510"},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2024-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139702305","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: 2023-11-19DOI: 10.1080/10410236.2023.2281078
Razieh Mehdizadeh-Maraghi, Leila Nemati-Anaraki
{"title":"Application of Problematic Integration Theory in Health Communication: A Scoping Review.","authors":"Razieh Mehdizadeh-Maraghi, Leila Nemati-Anaraki","doi":"10.1080/10410236.2023.2281078","DOIUrl":"10.1080/10410236.2023.2281078","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Problematic integration theory is a theory in communication that deals with the processing of messages by humans. It is helpful to study challenges and their solutions in the health communication context to develop effective relationships, treat patients, and, ultimately, ensure the well-being of society. A scoping review was conducted. Three databases were searched following the PRISMA-ScR statement without a time frame. Independent screening of titles, abstracts, and full texts was performed, and the studies selected based on the inclusion and exclusion criteria were assessed. The required information was then extracted from the studies and entered into Excel software. A total of 43 studies related to PI theory were identified in the databases. The results indicated that PI theory is used to interpret feelings, beliefs, challenges, concerns, and problematic dilemmas in five thematic categories: elderly care, cancer care, infertility, pregnancy, and childbirth care, illness care, and sexual care. Each of the papers also offers distinctive and valuable considerations for interventions such as communication strategies, coping mechanisms, uncertainty and certainty management, information management, education, training, support groups, and campaigns to improve decision-making and meet the challenges of health communication.</p>","PeriodicalId":12889,"journal":{"name":"Health Communication","volume":" ","pages":"2620-2646"},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2024-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138046728","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: 2024-03-07DOI: 10.1080/10410236.2024.2321404
Robin L Nabi, Christopher M Dobmeier, Chris L Robbins, Debora Pérez Torres, Nathan Walter
{"title":"Effects of Scanning Health News Headlines on Trust in Science: An Emotional Framing Perspective.","authors":"Robin L Nabi, Christopher M Dobmeier, Chris L Robbins, Debora Pérez Torres, Nathan Walter","doi":"10.1080/10410236.2024.2321404","DOIUrl":"10.1080/10410236.2024.2321404","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>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 news and medical science institutions as well as health behavioral intentions. A sample of U.S. adults (<i>N</i> = 327) were assigned to one of four headline framing conditions expected to associate with different emotions (positive future frame-hope; threat frame-fear/anxiety; reversal frame-annoyance; and control-neutral) and then asked about their emotional states, trust in science and news, and health-related behavioral intentions. Overall, health news headlines generated more hope than any other emotion across all conditions, and positive future-framed headlines evoked more hope than other framed headlines. Felt hope, in turn, generated greater trust in news and science, higher expectations of medical breakthroughs and cures, and greater intention to engage in preventative health behaviors. Felt anxiety had marginal positive benefits whereas felt annoyance negatively impacted the outcomes of interest. Notably, felt emotion mediated the headline frame-outcome relationships in the positive future/hope condition. These findings offer some support for the EFM and demonstrate that scanning headlines imbued with specific emotional frames can influence important health-related outcomes through the emotions they evoke. We discuss both the theoretical and practical implication of these findings.</p>","PeriodicalId":12889,"journal":{"name":"Health Communication","volume":" ","pages":"3342-3354"},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2024-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140059080","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: 2024-01-04DOI: 10.1080/10410236.2023.2299888
Sarah J White, Ken Ho, Kushagar Maini, Rhea Liang
{"title":"\"Sorry for Holding You Up\": Surgeons' Apologies for Lateness in Clinic Settings.","authors":"Sarah J White, Ken Ho, Kushagar Maini, Rhea Liang","doi":"10.1080/10410236.2023.2299888","DOIUrl":"10.1080/10410236.2023.2299888","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>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 consultation recordings from a range of surgical specialties in an Australian metropolitan setting. Conversation analysis was used to analyze interactional sequences where lateness was addressed. Six sequences were identified within four recordings. The two consultations with two apologies include a surgeon and registrar apologizing in a neurosurgical consultation and a surgeon apologizing twice within a colorectal consultation. Apologies were either accepted or responded to with an account for not accepting the apology. When these accounts were made, consultations could only progress when patients accepted an explanation for lateness or the degree of complainability about lateness was reduced. The infrequent occurrence of apologies for lateness, and the way in which these sequences unfolded when they did occur, suggest that there is greater acceptability of lateness for surgeons than in ordinary social situations.</p>","PeriodicalId":12889,"journal":{"name":"Health Communication","volume":" ","pages":"2997-3008"},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2024-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139097735","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: 2024-01-04DOI: 10.1080/10410236.2023.2288380
Camille J Saucier, Zexin Ma, Jorge A Montoya, Aaron Plant, Sapna Suresh, Chris L Robbins, Renee Fraser
{"title":"Overcoming Health Information Inequities: Valley fever Information Repertoires Among Vulnerable Communities in California.","authors":"Camille J Saucier, Zexin Ma, Jorge A Montoya, Aaron Plant, Sapna Suresh, Chris L Robbins, Renee Fraser","doi":"10.1080/10410236.2023.2288380","DOIUrl":"10.1080/10410236.2023.2288380","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>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 (CDPH) ran a cross-platform campaign to mitigate this awareness gap and impact prevention behavior. This study evaluates exposure to the CDPH campaign, followed by an examination of the information consumption patterns associated with key health outcomes. Results suggest that the CDPH campaign successfully improved knowledge accuracy, reduced misperceptions, and increased the likelihood of prevention behavior. Using an information repertoire lens revealed a more nuanced account. Most information repertoires positively influenced accurate knowledge retention and prevention behavior compared to those who were not exposed. The most diverse information repertoire, including interpersonal and media channels, was associated with increased knowledge accuracy, affective risk concerns, personal susceptibility, and prevention behavior. However, exposure to this repertoire was also associated with greater misperceptions. In addition, medical professional and radio-based repertoires positively influenced personal susceptibility perceptions. Overall, this research illustrates the importance of examining not only the general outcomes of health campaigns but also the patterns of information acquisition - particularly when working with underserved communities whose health information consumption preferences may not be comprehensively reflected in the literature.</p>","PeriodicalId":12889,"journal":{"name":"Health Communication","volume":" ","pages":"2793-2810"},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2024-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139097736","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: 2023-10-30DOI: 10.1080/10410236.2023.2275923
Sapna Suresh, Stefanie Z Demetriades, Nathan Walter, Jorge A Montoya, Aaron Plant, Kriss Barker, Cecilia Orvañanos, Jessica Carranza
{"title":"From Watching to Calling: Linking Variations in an Entertainment-Education Storyline with Calls to a Health Hotline.","authors":"Sapna Suresh, Stefanie Z Demetriades, Nathan Walter, Jorge A Montoya, Aaron Plant, Kriss Barker, Cecilia Orvañanos, Jessica Carranza","doi":"10.1080/10410236.2023.2275923","DOIUrl":"10.1080/10410236.2023.2275923","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Substantial gaps exist in the theoretical conceptualization and practical development of entertainment-education, as studies often fail to account for the ways in which intrinsic message characteristics influence subsequent behavior. These gaps served as the impetus for an international collaborative project that evaluated <i>Vencer el Miedo</i> (\"Overcome the Fear\"), a Spanish-language program that aired in Mexico from January to March 2020. The telenovela was produced with the aim of improving sexual and reproductive health knowledge and behaviors by modeling effective ways to discuss and negotiate safer sex practices. The show was accompanied by a telephone hotline called <i>OrientaSEX</i> operated by professional counselors from MEXFAM, Planned Parenthood's Mexican affiliate. Utilizing an interrupted time series analysis of calls made to <i>OrientaSEX</i> (<i>N</i> = 11,878) and focusing on changes in the volume of calls and the identity of callers following key moments in the storyline, the findings support the central role played by transitional characters and their similarity to audience members. Implications of these results for the theory and practice of entertainment-education are discussed.</p>","PeriodicalId":12889,"journal":{"name":"Health Communication","volume":" ","pages":"2539-2550"},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2024-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"71411975","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: 2023-11-02DOI: 10.1080/10410236.2023.2275921
Zhenyu Wang, Yi Hu, Bohan Huang, Guixian Zheng, Bei Li, Zhihan Liu
{"title":"Is There a Relationship Between Online Health Information Seeking and Health Anxiety? A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.","authors":"Zhenyu Wang, Yi Hu, Bohan Huang, Guixian Zheng, Bei Li, Zhihan Liu","doi":"10.1080/10410236.2023.2275921","DOIUrl":"10.1080/10410236.2023.2275921","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The internet has revolutionized how we live, providing unprecedented convenience and up-to-date information. Consequently, an increasing number of individuals are turning to the internet for health-related information, despite research suggesting a correlation between this behavior and health anxiety. Therefore, drawing on cognitive - behavioral theory, we explore the link between online health information seeking and health anxiety via a systematic review and meta-analysis of cross-sectional studies. Following the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-analysis, we ran searches in multiple databases, including PubMed, Web of Science, Embase, Elsevier/Science Direct, Cochrane Database, China National Knowledge Infrastructure, VIP Chinese Database, and Wanfang Data. Our searches identified 16 studies eligible for review, involving 4,920 participants across seven countries. The random-effects meta-analysis revealed a significant positive correlation between online health information seeking and health anxiety (<i>r</i> = 0.28, 95% confidence interval [0.16, 0.41], <i>p</i> < .0001), despite considerable heterogeneity. Furthermore, meta-regression analysis demonstrated that the identity characteristics of the sample, female percentage, sample size, and country all contributed to the heterogeneity across studies. Overall, this meta-analysis provides support for the association between online health information seeking and health anxiety, and helps to elucidate the cognitive - behavioral theory underpinning this phenomenon.</p>","PeriodicalId":12889,"journal":{"name":"Health Communication","volume":" ","pages":"2524-2538"},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2024-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"71423114","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: 2023-09-15DOI: 10.1080/10410236.2023.2258309
Lindsay E Young
{"title":"Effects of Online Friendships on Safer Sex Communication and Behavior among Black Sexual Minority Men: A Study of Network Exposure.","authors":"Lindsay E Young","doi":"10.1080/10410236.2023.2258309","DOIUrl":"10.1080/10410236.2023.2258309","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This study draws on social normative and social learning theories to examine the masspersonal safer sex communication (i.e., Facebook posts about safer sex) and safer sex behavior (i.e., condom use) in a cohort of Black sexual minority men (BSMM) (<i>N</i> = 340), with an eye toward understanding their relationship with the safer sex communication and behaviors of their BSMM Facebook friends. Using linear network autocorrelation regression models, results showed that BSMM's safer sex communication and condom use behavior were each associated with the communication and behavior of their online peers. Specifically, BSMM's condom use was positively associated with their friends' condom use and friends' safer sex communication, and BSMMs' safer sex communication was positively associated with friends' safer sex communication. Moreover, contrary to prior research, BSSM's safer sex communication and condom use were not related to one another, suggesting that talking about safer sex on social media should not be interpreted to be an indication of engageDment in safer sex behavior. These findings underscore an opportunity to leverage peer influence in social media networks, particularly in the form of masspersonal communication, to encourage cascades of safer sex messaging among peers and adoption of safer sex behavior.</p>","PeriodicalId":12889,"journal":{"name":"Health Communication","volume":" ","pages":"2419-2430"},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2024-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10940198/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10243756","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}