{"title":"For Myself or for Others? The Influence of Family Communication Patterns on Family Health History Communication and Online Health Information Seeking.","authors":"Yulei Feng","doi":"10.1080/10810730.2025.2450617","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10810730.2025.2450617","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>With innovations in health information technology, there are increasing opportunities to search for health information online, with the potential to reduce health care costs and improve health outcomes for the family. This study aims to investigate how family communication processes influence online health information seeking for oneself (self OHIS) and for another person (surrogate OHIS). An online survey was conducted among 325 adults in China. The results showed that <i>family conversation orientation</i> was positively related to family health history (FHH) communication intentions, whereas <i>family conformity orientation</i> was negatively related to FHH communication intentions. <i>Family conversation orientation</i> was positively related to self and surrogate OHIS through the partial and masking mediation effects of FHH communication intentions, respectively. <i>Family conformity orientation</i> was negatively related to self OHIS through the full mediating effect of FHH communication intentions, while FHH communication intentions played a masking mediating role between <i>conformity orientation</i> and surrogate OHIS. Implications for extending family communication patterns research to health communication and cultural forces on OHIS are discussed.</p>","PeriodicalId":16026,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Health Communication","volume":" ","pages":"1-10"},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2025-01-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142971167","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":"Pornography Use and Coitus Interruptus: Is There a Link?","authors":"Paul J Wright, Debby Herbenick","doi":"10.1080/10810730.2025.2450248","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10810730.2025.2450248","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Coitus interruptus - colloquially referred to as withdrawal - is an attempt at contraception wherein the penis is removed from the vagina prior to ejaculation, with ejaculation occurring somewhere outside the vagina. Although withdrawal can reduce the risk of pregnancy, it is less efficacious than methods such as consistent condom use and hormonal birth control. Consequently, it is of public health importance to identify sociocultural influences that either increase or decrease the likelihood of withdrawal as a contraceptive technique. Multiple content analyses have identified external ejaculation as common in popular pornography, yet no study appears to have assessed whether more frequent pornography consumption increases the likelihood of withdrawal behavior. Using national probability data, the present study examined whether pornography use and withdrawal were correlated among U.S. women aged 15-49. Women who consumed pornography more frequently were more likely to report using withdrawal as a contraceptive method than women who consumed pornography less frequently, but this association was moderated by perceptions of pornography's utility and women's marital status. Results are discussed through the lens of the sexual script acquisition, activation, application model (<sub>3</sub>AM) of sexual media socialization.</p>","PeriodicalId":16026,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Health Communication","volume":" ","pages":"1-12"},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2025-01-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142971168","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}
Ashley B Murray, Neha Trivedi, Roxanne E Jensen, Gordon Willis, Richard P Moser, Kelly D Blake
{"title":"Validation of a Cancer-Focused Information Seeking Experience (ISEE) Scale.","authors":"Ashley B Murray, Neha Trivedi, Roxanne E Jensen, Gordon Willis, Richard P Moser, Kelly D Blake","doi":"10.1080/10810730.2025.2449972","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10810730.2025.2449972","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Searching for health information is critical for maintaining one's health and reducing risk of disease, including cancer. However, some people are more likely to experience challenges in finding and comprehending health information; therefore, it is important to measure health information-seeking behavior. In order to add to prior research conducted with the scale, this study provides the first formal evaluation of the validity and reliability of the four-item, cancer-focused Information Seeking Experience (ISEE) scale in a cross-sectional, nationally representative health survey of U.S. adults.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Results indicated that the four ISEE scale items were within limits of normality (skew range = -.44-.11; kurtosis range = -1.07 - -.71), exhibited medium to strong pairwise correlations (<i>r</i>'s = .54-.72), and indicated a strong internal consistency (Cronbach's α = .85). The scale was unidimensional (CFI = .997, TLI = .992, SRMR = .012), and the scale demonstrated construct validity with known sociodemographic characteristics. As predicted, the ISEE scale had relatively weak relationships with the Patient Health Questionnaire for Depression and Anxiety, Patient-Centered Communication Scale, and the Patient-Reported Outcomes Measurement Information System (PROMIS) Instrumental Support 4a, demonstrating discriminant validity.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>Tracking information-seeking experience in the population is critical, especially to inform efforts that ensure individuals have accessible, understandable, and reliable information about cancer. The ISEE scale was found to assess various aspects of cancer information-seeking in a reliable and valid manner and may be used in future surveys to track information support needs of those who seek health and cancer information.</p>","PeriodicalId":16026,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Health Communication","volume":" ","pages":"1-9"},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2025-01-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142965573","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":"Divergent Routes of Health Infotainment in Changing Public Health Attitudes: A GPT-2 Analysis of Users' Responses to Health Infotainment.","authors":"Cong Wang, Han Wang, Zheng Yang, Suya Ding","doi":"10.1080/10810730.2024.2448492","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10810730.2024.2448492","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Infotainment is an effective and widely used way of spreading health information. However, the specific mechanism of its effects remains unclear. This study analyzed 215,020 user comments under a popular health animation - the <i>Cells at Work</i> - on Bilibili.com, using the GPT-2 method. The analysis found that when faced with such an infotainment health communication text, audiences' subsequent expressions of health attitudes and related changes were limited, indicating that the effectiveness of infotainment as a means of health communication should not be overestimated. Audiences have different reactions to the health information and entertainment parts of such infotainment. The effect of health information in arousing changes in audiences' health attitudes is lower than that of the entertainment. This indicates that we need to reconsider the balance between the health information and entertainment parts involved.</p>","PeriodicalId":16026,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Health Communication","volume":" ","pages":"1-11"},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2025-01-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142931941","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}
Lourdes S Martinez, Aachal Devi, Gerardo Maupomé, Melody K Schiaffino, Guadalupe X Ayala, Vanessa L Malcarne, Kristin S Hoeft, Tracy L Finlayson
{"title":"Using a Social Network Approach to Characterize Oral Health Behavior Social Support Among Mexican-Origin Young Adults.","authors":"Lourdes S Martinez, Aachal Devi, Gerardo Maupomé, Melody K Schiaffino, Guadalupe X Ayala, Vanessa L Malcarne, Kristin S Hoeft, Tracy L Finlayson","doi":"10.1080/10810730.2024.2433528","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10810730.2024.2433528","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Using a social network approach, we characterize who Mexican-origin young adults perceive as social support sources for oral health behaviors and provide additional validity evidence for Oral Health Behavior Social Support Scales (OHBSS). From April to September 2022, we gathered social network data from 62 Mexican-origin adults (21-40 years old) through Zoom interviews about their perceived received social support for three oral health behaviors (toothbrushing, flossing, and obtaining dental care) from three potential sources of support (family, health providers, and others/friends). Overall, we found similar results across all three oral health behaviors. We also found evidence for convergent and discriminant validity of OHBSS scales using social network measures. Implications of findings are discussed.</p>","PeriodicalId":16026,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Health Communication","volume":" ","pages":"1-16"},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2024-12-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142885809","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":"Fear in Media Headlines Increases Public Risk Perceptions but Decreases Preventive Behaviors: A Multi-Country Study During the COVID-19 Pandemic.","authors":"Sijia Qian, Kaiping Chen, Jingbo Meng, Cuihua Shen, Anfan Chen, Jingwen Zhang","doi":"10.1080/10810730.2024.2439468","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10810730.2024.2439468","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The perception of reality could matter more than reality itself when it comes to disease outbreaks. News media are important sources of information during global disease outbreaks, such as the COVID-19 pandemic. Drawing on theories of fear appeals and the social ecological model, we conducted multilevel modeling analyses to examine how media-level and community-level factors influenced the public's risk perceptions of COVID-19 and frequencies of preventive behaviors in the United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, and India. We combined a large-scale multi-wave cross-country survey (<i>N</i> = 161,374) with a COVID-19 media coverage archive (<i>N</i> = 10,015,187) to test these relationships. We found that fear in media headlines was positively correlated with people's perceptions of risk but negatively correlated with frequencies of preventive behaviors, controlling for individual-, community-, and cultural-level factors. Similar patterns were consistently identified within each individual country. We also show that community factors interacted with the media environment to influence public risk perceptions and behaviors. Our findings highlight a strong mass media influence during the pandemic, and we discuss the implications of our findings for health communication during crisis times.</p>","PeriodicalId":16026,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Health Communication","volume":" ","pages":"1-11"},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2024-12-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142846885","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}
Traci Hong, Zilu Tang, Jiaxi Wu, Eleanor J Murray, Derry Wijaya, Christopher E Beaudoin
{"title":"Posted in Error: Did the CDC's Retraction of Aerosol Guidance Undercut Its Public Reputation?","authors":"Traci Hong, Zilu Tang, Jiaxi Wu, Eleanor J Murray, Derry Wijaya, Christopher E Beaudoin","doi":"10.1080/10810730.2024.2427943","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10810730.2024.2427943","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>While there is ample research on the influence of retracted scientific publications on author reputation, less is known about how a health organization's retraction of scientific guidance can impact public perceptions of the organization. This study centers on the aerosol guidance retraction of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in 2020. X/Twitter social media data were collected via ForSight from September 15 to October 8, 2020, with a machine learning algorithm specifically developed and used to detect sentiment toward the CDC. Regression analyses of the non-bot sample (<i>N</i> = 265,326) tested for differences in CDC sentiment across four stages: 1) baseline; 2) CDC guidance change; 3) CDC retraction of the prior guidance change; and 4) CDC reversion to a tempered form of the initial guidance change. The results show that sentiment toward the CDC increased from Time 1 to Time 2, then decreased for Time 3 with the \"posted in error\" retraction, but then increased for Time 4 back to a level similar to Time 2. That public perceptions of the CDC could improve after these changes in scientific guidance may be attributed to its self-report of the retraction and reporting that the retraction was a result of unintentional error. This study connects theories of reputation management and trust repair with the growing empirical research on retractions of published scientific research to provide a theoretical explanation for how a major public health organization can mitigate damage to its reputation in the short term.</p>","PeriodicalId":16026,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Health Communication","volume":" ","pages":"1-12"},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2024-12-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142837146","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}
Tracy M Scull, Christina V Dodson, Janis B Kupersmidt, Reina Evans-Paulson, Kathryn N Stump, Liz C Reeder
{"title":"A Media Literacy Education Approach to Sexual Health Promotion: Immediate Effects of <i>Media Aware</i> on the Sexual Health Cognitions of Young Adult Community College Students.","authors":"Tracy M Scull, Christina V Dodson, Janis B Kupersmidt, Reina Evans-Paulson, Kathryn N Stump, Liz C Reeder","doi":"10.1080/10810730.2024.2433527","DOIUrl":"10.1080/10810730.2024.2433527","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This study evaluates the efficacy of <i>Media Aware</i>, a comprehensive sex education program with a media literacy education approach, for improving sexual health cognitions among 1139 U.S. community college students (ages 18-19) from 23 campuses. Students were randomized to condition (intervention or delayed-intervention control) and completed pretest and posttest questionnaires. Several main effects of the intervention were found at posttest, including reduced perceived realism of media messages, positive attitudes about risky sex, and descriptive normative beliefs about unprotected and risky sexual activity, and increased self-efficacy to use dental dams. Gender and pretest levels moderated some intervention effects. Women in the intervention group reported less identification with media messages compared to women in the control group. Students in the intervention group who reported lower pretest levels of self-efficacy to use dental dams and to refuse unprotected sex had higher posttest levels on those outcomes as compared with the control group. Students in the intervention group who reported higher pretest levels of normative beliefs about risky sexual activity had lower posttest levels on those outcomes as compared with the control group. Results suggest that <i>Media Aware</i> is a promising method to improve the sexual health of young adults attending community college.</p>","PeriodicalId":16026,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Health Communication","volume":"29 11-12","pages":"716-725"},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2024-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11701888/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142801082","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}
{"title":"Correction.","authors":"","doi":"10.1080/10810730.2024.2424591","DOIUrl":"10.1080/10810730.2024.2424591","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":16026,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Health Communication","volume":" ","pages":"726"},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2024-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142621947","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":"Opinion Leadership and Sharing Positive and Negative Information About Vaccines on Social Media: A Mixed-Methods Approach.","authors":"Xiaohui Wang, Zhihuai Lin, Jingyuan Shi, Ye Sun","doi":"10.1080/10810730.2024.2426810","DOIUrl":"10.1080/10810730.2024.2426810","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>In our research, we examined how three dimensions of opinion leadership-connectivity, maven, and persuasiveness-are associated with sharing positive and negative information about vaccines among parents in Hong Kong through a mixed-methods approach. In two studies, we assessed opinion leadership following a sociometric approach that involved using data from social media (Study 1) and a self-assessment using survey data (Study 2), which yielded largely consistent results. In particular, whereas connectivity and maven were significantly associated with sharing positive information about vaccines, all three dimensions were significantly associated with sharing negative information about vaccines. Those findings suggest that different dimensions of opinion leadership play different roles in information sharing depending on the information's valence. Moreover, the similar pattern of findings from both studies suggested that the sociometric approach and self-assessment may capture the multidimensional nature of opinion leadership equally well. In sum, the findings advance theoretical discussions on the role of opinion leadership in information sharing and offer practical insights into promoting vaccination for children among parents.</p>","PeriodicalId":16026,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Health Communication","volume":" ","pages":"693-701"},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2024-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142668290","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}