{"title":"The \"Whole-Of-Society\" Approach for Misinformation Correction: How Expert Didactic TikTok Videos Motivate Citizen Fact-Checking and Vaccine Promotion.","authors":"Gaofei Li, Mengyu Li, Sijia Yang","doi":"10.1080/10810730.2025.2503179","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10810730.2025.2503179","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This study employs an experimental design to examine the effects of expert didactic corrective TikTok videos on motivating people's intentions to engage in citizen fact-checking and vaccine promotion. Our findings reveal that participants who watched expert didactic debunking videos, compared to those viewing layperson testimonial videos, reported higher intentions to correct others' misperceptions of COVID-19 vaccines and promote COVID-19 vaccines to those who have not completed the recommended vaccination. The impacts of expert didactic videos on fact-checking and vaccine-promoting intention are mediated by participants' perceived expertise of the video's source. Our findings contribute to the theoretical understanding of how multimodal correction messages motivate individuals' intentions for interpersonal behavioral outcomes. Practically, our research emphasizes the \"whole-of-society\" approach to combating health misinformation on video-based platforms such as TikTok.</p>","PeriodicalId":16026,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Health Communication","volume":" ","pages":"1-13"},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2025-05-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143969586","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Segmenting the Market: How Understanding Differences Among Smokers Can Improve Cigarette Warning Labels.","authors":"Hollie L Tripp, Jocelyn C Chow, Faris Grbic","doi":"10.1080/10810730.2025.2495623","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10810730.2025.2495623","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Health warning labels on cigarette packs are one of the most widely implemented and effective tobacco control interventions. Since their implementation in the United States in 1964, the appearance of these warnings has evolved as research surrounding them has grown. However, improved cigarette warning labels are needed in order to accelerate smoking quit rates and reduce smoking-attributable deaths. The Message Impact Framework describes the mechanisms through which such warnings influence attention, attitudes, knowledge, and intentions to quit smoking, which can ultimately lead to behavioral change. This framework has been used to advance tobacco regulatory research regarding cigarette warning labels; however, studies surrounding warning messages demonstrate how messaging influences smokers but are limited in how variability among smokers (e.g. cultural perspectives) can influence warning message interpretation. If cigarette warning labels are not sufficiently framed to account for diversity within the smoking population, they may not reach their intended audiences or have their intended effects. Rather than treating smokers as a monolith, this review draws on research to demonstrate the need for marketing segmentation of smokers. Such information can then be leveraged to update the Message Impact Framework and develop more targeted cigarette warning labels.</p>","PeriodicalId":16026,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Health Communication","volume":" ","pages":"1-10"},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2025-05-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143966851","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Zoltán Kmetty, Anna Vancsó, Eszter Katona, Krisztán Boros
{"title":"Does Local Context Matter? - Content Analysis of COVID-19 Vaccine-Related Online Comments in Hungary.","authors":"Zoltán Kmetty, Anna Vancsó, Eszter Katona, Krisztán Boros","doi":"10.1080/10810730.2025.2496953","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10810730.2025.2496953","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The COVID-19 situation brought novelties into discourses on anti-vaccination and vaccine hesitancy on social media-both in logic and concerning topics. The complexity of vaccine production and distribution parallel to constant political negotiations on a global level created an opaque and confusing system seedbed for misinformation, which decreased the trust in public management and authorities as the vaccination discussions became embedded in both local and global politics. In this study, we contrast the anti-vaxxers and the vaccine-hesitant people's attitudes toward the local aspects of vaccination. We compare these groups' main narratives in two key vaccine-related topics - locality and authority. Based on our analysis, anti-vaxxer comments are nonpolitical or differentiate national politics from global aspects of COVID-19 vaccination. On the contrary, vaccine-hesitant discourses are highly contextual and dependent on the continuous changing of the conditions. The east-west political narrative has severely impacted both non-anti-vaxxer and vaccine-hesitant groups and contributed to increased vaccination hesitancy in Hungary.</p>","PeriodicalId":16026,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Health Communication","volume":" ","pages":"1-9"},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2025-05-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143969980","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Solving a Controversial Health Problem May Be Tricky: Examining Social Media News Use, Gender, Fear, and Information Behaviors in HPV Prevention.","authors":"Xizhu Xiao, Yan Wang, Wenyuan Yang, Yi Zhu","doi":"10.1080/10810730.2025.2496386","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10810730.2025.2496386","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Guided by the Situational Theory of Problem Solving (STOPS), this study surveys 1,853 Chinese individuals to identify factors influencing active information behaviors and HPV prevention intentions. Results show that involvement recognition is the key driver of situational motivation, leading to active information behaviors, which in turn significantly predict HPV vaccination intentions. Although fear does not directly impact information behaviors, it mediates the effect of perceptual variables on situational motivation. The study also highlights the different impacts of Chinese versus foreign social media news consumption on perceptual variables and the unique effect of gender on involvement recognition. These findings support the applicability of STOPS in HPV prevention and provide insights for improving health communication strategies.</p>","PeriodicalId":16026,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Health Communication","volume":" ","pages":"1-14"},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2025-04-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144029371","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Kenneshia N Williams, Brenda Dimaya, Elizabeth C Hair, Jessica M Rath
{"title":"The Relationship Between Receptivity, Targeted Beliefs, and Tobacco Use.","authors":"Kenneshia N Williams, Brenda Dimaya, Elizabeth C Hair, Jessica M Rath","doi":"10.1080/10810730.2025.2488771","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10810730.2025.2488771","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Population-level tobacco prevention education campaigns influence a range of public health behaviors. Campaign receptivity is a precursor to shifts in campaign-targeted beliefs. This study examined the bi-directional nature of campaign receptivity and campaign-targeted beliefs (i.e. anti-industry, social movement, independence). Further, this study explored the relationship between campaign-targeted beliefs and campaign-targeted outcomes (i.e. tobacco behavior and intentions not to use). Data were drawn from the Truth Longitudinal Cohort, a nationally representative, probability-based cohort which includes youth and young adults (<i>N</i> = 3,771; 15-24 years). Campaign receptivity and campaign-targeted beliefs were measured at Times 1-4, while campaign-targeted outcomes were measured at Time 5. Findings indicate that a one unit increase in campaign receptivity is associated with an average increase of .94, .82, and .61 points in social movement, independence, and anti-industry beliefs, respectively. Analyses also revealed that for each unit increase in social movement and anti-industry beliefs, respondents' any current tobacco use declined by 0.06 and 0.08 points. Moreover, for each unit increase in social movement and independence beliefs, respondents' intentions not to use cigarettes/e-cigarettes increased by .12 and .10 points, respectively. This study reveals the pathway by which campaign receptivity translates to campaign-targeted beliefs and how this impacts campaign-targeted outcomes.</p>","PeriodicalId":16026,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Health Communication","volume":" ","pages":"1-6"},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2025-04-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144004736","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Meghan D McGurk, Gail Ogawa, Katherine Inoue, Colin Wills, Lance K Ching, Alena K Shalaby, Naomee Kong, Heidi Hansen Smith, Jessica Lee, Lola Irvin, L Brooke Keliikoa
{"title":"Sweet Lies! Lessons Learned from Hawai'i's Sweetened Fruit Drink Countermarketing Campaign.","authors":"Meghan D McGurk, Gail Ogawa, Katherine Inoue, Colin Wills, Lance K Ching, Alena K Shalaby, Naomee Kong, Heidi Hansen Smith, Jessica Lee, Lola Irvin, L Brooke Keliikoa","doi":"10.1080/10810730.2025.2461588","DOIUrl":"10.1080/10810730.2025.2461588","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Beverage industry marketing tactics can cause caregivers to misperceive sweetened fruit drinks (SFDs) as healthy, increasing the likelihood they give their children SFDs. The <i>Sweet Lies!</i> countermarketing campaign sought to educate Hawai'i caregivers of children ages 0-8 about the industry's misleading tactics and the harms of SFDs. Focus groups were held to develop messages for Hawai'i caregivers. The campaign ran January-April 2023 on television, digital and social media, radio, and in malls. Campaign effects were assessed with media metrics and pre-/post-campaign cross-sectional surveys. Pre-surveys were conducted November-December 2022 (<i>n</i> = 458) and post-surveys were conducted in May 2023 (<i>n</i> = 482) to evaluate campaign effects on caregivers' perceptions of SFD health risks and SFD purchases in a simulated store. Pre-/post-survey samples were demographically different precluding comparisons and post-survey data were unable to show differences in health risk ratings and SFD purchases by exposure. The campaign produced 32,155,747 impressions across media outlets. Post-survey data showed campaign recall of 36.9% and informed campaign revisions. Lessons learned, including the importance of formative research for campaign tailoring and evaluation for real-world campaign implementation, the value of panel surveys for rapid evaluations, and to plan for low exposure rates, are shared to inform other campaign and evaluation efforts.</p>","PeriodicalId":16026,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Health Communication","volume":"30 sup1","pages":"14-27"},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2025-03-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143753002","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Chelsea L Ratcliff, Andy J King, Rebekah Wicke, Manusheela Pokharel, Dallin R Adams, Jakob D Jensen
{"title":"Examining Reactance to Visual and Verbal Features of Mask Promotion PSAs.","authors":"Chelsea L Ratcliff, Andy J King, Rebekah Wicke, Manusheela Pokharel, Dallin R Adams, Jakob D Jensen","doi":"10.1080/10810730.2024.2437039","DOIUrl":"10.1080/10810730.2024.2437039","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Research on reactance to health promotion messages has focused almost exclusively on the freedom-threatening properties of language, with little attention paid to the visual elements of these messages. For instance, while health campaigns often feature images of people, researchers rarely systematically study whether the characteristics of these people influence perceived freedom threat and reactance. In this experiment, we tested the impact of both verbal and visual message features on U.S. adults' (<i>N</i> = 856) reactions to a public service announcement (PSA) about wearing a mask to slow the spread of COVID-19. We varied the forcefulness of the verbal appeal as well as the nonverbal gesture of the PSA models (i.e. hand raised in a \"stop\" gesture vs. in a neutral position). Compared to a courteous verbal appeal, a forceful verbal appeal produced lower masking intentions via psychological reactance. However, the forceful gesture was not perceived as freedom-threatening. Unexpectedly, demographic characteristics of the depicted models (gender and race) also influenced reactions to the PSAs. These findings raise important questions for future research on the effects of visual features of health promotion messages.</p>","PeriodicalId":16026,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Health Communication","volume":"30 sup1","pages":"28-38"},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2025-03-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143753013","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Revisiting the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services COVID-19 Public Education Media Campaign: Successes and New Lessons Learned.","authors":"Mark A Weber, Thomas E Backer","doi":"10.1080/10810730.2024.2436427","DOIUrl":"10.1080/10810730.2024.2436427","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Communication professionals in Federal agencies must have a seat at their agency's budget formulation table - to inform the budget process from the beginning and to advise on funding for the communications required to achieve program goals. This is one of nine lessons learned from US Department of Health and Human Services (USDHHS) systems change efforts that were applied to help create the \"We Can Do This\" COVID-19 Public Education Media Campaign (Campaign), and these lessons were presented in a 2022 <i>Journal of Health Communication</i> article. Now that substantial evaluation data are available in eight recent research articles to verify the Campaign's success, this lesson can be revisited to identify more specific ways in which it can be applied, along with two additional lessons identified from the Campaign implementation. In light of the Campaign's success, these learnings all can contribute to creating a new framework for guiding quality USDHHS health communication activities in the future - inspired also by four previously-published communication frameworks. The new framework can then be used to build an enhanced structure within USDHHS to handle future public education media campaigns and other communication activities, a matter of particular urgency given the likelihood of a future public health and humanitarian crisis requiring rapid and effective communication responses.</p>","PeriodicalId":16026,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Health Communication","volume":" ","pages":"70-75"},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2025-03-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142801079","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Miao Feng, Chandler C Carter, Simon Page, Sherry L Emery, Hy Tran, Ganna Kostygina
{"title":"Tweeted, Trolled, Twisted: Battling for Narrative Control in E-Cigarette Use Prevention Campaigns (2014-2020).","authors":"Miao Feng, Chandler C Carter, Simon Page, Sherry L Emery, Hy Tran, Ganna Kostygina","doi":"10.1080/10810730.2025.2462682","DOIUrl":"10.1080/10810730.2025.2462682","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This study identifies and analyzes X (formerly Twitter) posts related to 14 e-cigarette use prevention campaigns from 2014 to 2020, assessing message volume, content, sources, potential reach and engagement. Using supervised machine learning, we classified 618,965 tweets, finding 43% contained opposition messaging. Two regional campaigns received the highest levels of opposition, with over 99% of related tweets classified as opposition. However, prevention/neutral messages exhibited 92% higher potential reach than opposition messages. Geolocation analysis suggested that regional campaigns may have struggled to focus their impact within targeted jurisdictions. These findings illustrate the dual role of social media as both an amplifier of prevention messages and a platform for oppositional narratives, underscoring the need for public health practitioners to develop adaptive strategies to enhance the impact of digital campaigns.</p>","PeriodicalId":16026,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Health Communication","volume":" ","pages":"39-49"},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2025-03-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11977538/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143365091","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Brian G Southwell, Sung-Yeon Park, Ashani Johnson-Turbes, Jennifer A Bishop, Dana J Chomenko, Michael Grela
{"title":"The Importance of Assessing Failure, Unexpected Results, and Lessons Learned for Advancing Health Communication Science.","authors":"Brian G Southwell, Sung-Yeon Park, Ashani Johnson-Turbes, Jennifer A Bishop, Dana J Chomenko, Michael Grela","doi":"10.1080/10810730.2025.2469980","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10810730.2025.2469980","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":16026,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Health Communication","volume":"30 sup1","pages":"2-4"},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2025-03-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143753007","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}