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From Attention to Intention: Evaluating the Effectiveness of Social Media and Website Strategies in the Radon Buster Campaign. 从关注到意图：评估社会媒体和网站策略在氡破坏者运动中的有效性。

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Journal of Health Communication Pub Date : 2025-09-29 DOI: 10.1080/10810730.2025.2562844

Sofie Apers, Michelle Symons, Heidi Vandebosch, Tanja Perko

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Don't Call Them "Unclean" Or "Unkempt": Analyzing the Harmful Direct and Indirect Effects of Opioid Stigma Marks on Stigmatizing Attitudes and Behavioral Intentions. 不要叫他们“不干净”或“不整洁”：分析阿片类药物污名标记对污名态度和行为意图的直接和间接有害影响。

IF 2.4 2区医学

Journal of Health Communication Pub Date : 2025-09-02 DOI: 10.1080/10810730.2025.2552949

Victoria A Ledford

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Conditional Effect of Need for Affect and Perceived Prior Knowledge in Processing HPV Messages. HPV信息处理中情感需求和感知先验知识的条件效应。

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Journal of Health Communication Pub Date : 2025-09-01 DOI: 10.1080/10810730.2025.2552492

Tae Kyoung Lee, Hye Kyung Kim

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Using Theater as a Health Promotion Tool: A Scoping Review. 使用戏剧作为健康促进工具：范围审查。

IF 2.4 2区医学

Journal of Health Communication Pub Date : 2025-08-27 DOI: 10.1080/10810730.2025.2547052

Yixian Guo, Christopher Sonn, Michaela Pascoe

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How Systems Mapping Can Be an Important Health Communication Tool. 系统映射如何成为一种重要的健康沟通工具。

IF 2.4 2区医学

Journal of Health Communication Pub Date : 2025-08-22 DOI: 10.1080/10810730.2025.2538531

Jessie Heneghan, Danielle C John, Tej D Shah, Nicolaas P Pronk, Kevin L Chin, Samuele Petruccelli, Sarah M Bartsch, Kavya Velmurugan, Colleen Weatherwax, Emily Faulhaber, Kelly J O'Shea, Alexis Dibbs, Sheryl A Scannell, Kayla De La Haye, Bruce Y Lee

{"title":"How Systems Mapping Can Be an Important Health Communication Tool.","authors":"Jessie Heneghan, Danielle C John, Tej D Shah, Nicolaas P Pronk, Kevin L Chin, Samuele Petruccelli, Sarah M Bartsch, Kavya Velmurugan, Colleen Weatherwax, Emily Faulhaber, Kelly J O'Shea, Alexis Dibbs, Sheryl A Scannell, Kayla De La Haye, Bruce Y Lee","doi":"10.1080/10810730.2025.2538531","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10810730.2025.2538531","url":null,"abstract":"Many health and public health issues involve heterogeneous factors and processes that interact with one another and combine to form complex systems that make them challenging to communicate to the public. Words alone often aren't enough to communicate what's happening with a complex system, which is where and how visualizations can play an important role. A systems map is one such visualization tool that can be useful as it graphically shows the different components that make up a complex system and their relationships with one another. While systems mapping is not new as a concept or tool and in fact is used in other fields, its potential for health and public health communications still remains largely untapped. There is a series of sequential steps to follow to develop a systems map for health communications that allows for various perspectives to be included and minimizes bias, setting up a process to create a fuller representation of the system. Future directions of systems mapping for public health communications should leverage emerging technologies like artificial intelligence (AI) and virtual and extended reality (VR/XR) to further advance the usefulness systems mapping can have to improve our understanding of complex systems in public health and better communicate them to the public.","PeriodicalId":16026,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Health Communication","volume":" ","pages":"1-16"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2025-08-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144957037","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}

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Comparing Large Language Models as Health Literacy Tools: Evaluating and Simplifying Texts on gender-Affirming Surgery. 比较大型语言模型作为健康素养工具：评估和简化性别确认手术的文本。

IF 2.4 2区医学

Journal of Health Communication Pub Date : 2025-08-19 DOI: 10.1080/10810730.2025.2547321

Victoria N Yi, Angel P Scialdone, Ann Marie Flusche, Kendall Reitz, Holly C Lewis, William M Tian, Elda Fisher, Kristen Rezak, Ash Patel

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Dying in Silence: Black Maternal Mortality in the United States. 《沉默中死去：美国黑人孕产妇死亡率》。

IF 2.4 2区医学

Journal of Health Communication Pub Date : 2025-08-17 DOI: 10.1080/10810730.2025.2541832

Jaime Loke, Tania Cantrell Rosas-Moreno

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Examining Character Assassination in Patient-Clinician Interactions About Chronic Pain. 在慢性疼痛的患者-临床互动中检查性格暗杀。

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Journal of Health Communication Pub Date : 2025-08-12 DOI: 10.1080/10810730.2025.2546375

Elizabeth A Hintz, Lili R Romann, Rachel V Tucker, Madeline J Moore

{"title":"Examining Character Assassination in Patient-Clinician Interactions About Chronic Pain.","authors":"Elizabeth A Hintz, Lili R Romann, Rachel V Tucker, Madeline J Moore","doi":"10.1080/10810730.2025.2546375","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10810730.2025.2546375","url":null,"abstract":"Female chronic pain patients often report perceiving that their character (i.e. credibility, reputation) has been attacked by clinicians during healthcare interactions. Although initially developed to examine political communication, we argue that character assassination (CA) is an inherently communicative phenomenon that also occurs within patient-clinician interactions. Utilizing CA as a sensitizing concept, this study examined experiences of CA among a racially, socioeconomically, and globally diverse sample of 450 female chronic pain patients during their interactions with clinicians. Our findings illuminate specific tactics employed by clinicians to attack patients' character, including making false attributions, lying and misquoting, triggering stereotypes, bullying, and emphasizing alleged flaws. Our findings also illustrate how CA might catalyze other deleterious outcomes, including fueling self-doubt, delaying further help-seeking and diagnosis, intensifying physical and mental health conditions, and turning relationally close others against the patient. We offer theoretical implications for utilizing CA as a conceptual lens and practical implications for patients and clinicians.","PeriodicalId":16026,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Health Communication","volume":" ","pages":"1-7"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2025-08-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144821557","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}

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Meme Exposure on Social Media Associated with More Positive E-Cigarette Perceptions and Greater Usage Among Youth. 社交媒体上的模因曝光与年轻人对电子烟的积极看法和更多的使用有关。

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Journal of Health Communication Pub Date : 2025-08-08 DOI: 10.1080/10810730.2025.2543168

Xia Zheng, Meng Yang, Wenbo Li, Hsien-Chang Lin

{"title":"Meme Exposure on Social Media Associated with More Positive E-Cigarette Perceptions and Greater Usage Among Youth.","authors":"Xia Zheng, Meng Yang, Wenbo Li, Hsien-Chang Lin","doi":"10.1080/10810730.2025.2543168","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10810730.2025.2543168","url":null,"abstract":"Internet memes, viral and mutable messages online, have been used by individuals and organizations to disseminate health messages. Specifically, both companies and public health organizations have used memes to influence e-cigarette behaviors. How does exposure to e-cigarette memes on social media shape related perceptions and behaviors among youth? This study extracted data from restricted-use file of Wave 7 (2022-2023) of the Population Assessment of Tobacco and Health (PATH) study, a nationally representative study that collected information about tobacco use and associated health behaviors among adults (≥18 years) and youth (12-17 years) in the United States. Our analyses investigated the association between youth participants' exposure to various sources of memes related to e-cigarette use and their e-cigarette-related expectancies, perceptions, use, and cessation, while controlling for parental and youth factors. Exposure to memes posted by friends and celebrities were all associated with lower perceived harmfulness, higher descriptive norms, more positive injunctive norms of using e-cigarettes, and more ease for purchasing e-cigarettes (ps<.05). For youth who do not use e-cigarettes, exposure to e-cigarette memes was associated with higher susceptibility of using e-cigarettes (ps<.01). Additionally, exposure to memes posted by friends was also associated with lower e-cigarette quit intentions. E-cigarette memes may influence youth's perceptions about e-cigarettes and contribute to initiation among youth. Future research is needed for identifying strategies in using Internet memes for e-cigarette prevention and health campaigns.","PeriodicalId":16026,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Health Communication","volume":" ","pages":"1-12"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2025-08-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144799350","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}

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When ChatGPT Speaks About Health: Examining Perceptions of Warmth and Competence Toward AI as a Health Information Source. 当ChatGPT谈论健康：检查对人工智能作为健康信息源的温暖和能力的看法。

IF 2.4 2区医学

Journal of Health Communication Pub Date : 2025-08-04 DOI: 10.1080/10810730.2025.2540864

Buduo Wang, Bruce Wang Shibo, Jiwan Kafle

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