{"title":"Influencing the Influencers: Effects of an In-Person Summit on Tiktok Creators' Mental Health Communication Habits and Beliefs.","authors":"Meng Meng Xu, Elissa Scherer, Rebecca Robbins, Yuning Liu, Matt Motta, Amanda Yarnell","doi":"10.1080/10810730.2025.2601656","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10810730.2025.2601656","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Social media platforms such as TikTok hold tremendous promise for reaching large proportions of the general population with health messaging. However, the proliferation of health misinformation on these platforms poses a significant public health risk. Partnerships between public health experts and social media content creators are a novel intervention, which may overcome concerns about misinformation, and catalyze the proliferation of evidence-based health messages on social media. To build such partnerships between creators and mental health and health communication experts, the Center for Health Communication at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health held an in-person Summit that attracted mental health creators working on TikTok and other social media platforms. Over the course of two days, creators were exposed to techniques for communicating evidence-based information and discussions on how to promote mental health online. Following the Summit, creators (<i>n</i> = 14) provided immediate open-ended qualitative feedback about the Summit. Then, 6-months later, creators were re-contacted for in-depth interviews to explore the impact of the summit on their beliefs and behaviors. In both the immediate post-Summit feedback and 6-month post-Summit interviews, creators reported that attending the Summit impacted their content-making behaviors, increased their sense of responsibility and awareness of their power to impact mental health outcomes among social media users, validated their role as health communicators, and created a much-needed community of support among peers. Given that social media is a primary source of health information for many people, our findings provide a blueprint for public health communicators hoping to build lasting strategic relationships with today's most influential media gatekeepers.</p>","PeriodicalId":16026,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Health Communication","volume":" ","pages":"1-7"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2025-12-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145763047","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":"Culturally Responsive Community Mental Health: Successes and Lessons from a Community Mental Health Organization.","authors":"Meina Liu, Jian Lily Chen, Tianlin Jiang, Meijie Lyu, Jionglue Huang, Justin A Chen","doi":"10.1080/10810730.2025.2592153","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10810730.2025.2592153","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This case study examines the United Chinese Americans Wellness, Advocacy, Voices, Education, and Support (UCA WAVES) initiative as a culturally responsive, systems-based model for community mental health. Guided by a hybrid framework integrating Culturally Responsive Theory of Change (CRToC) and Community-Based System Dynamics (CBSD), we analyze how interdependent subsystems (e.g. advocacy, storytelling, culturally adapted psychoeducation, peer support) reinforce one another to reduce stigma, build trust, enhance sustained engagement, and drive policy change despite resource constraints. Theoretically, the case illustrates how systems design and cultural responsiveness can align micro-, meso-, and macro-level changes to increase intervention resilience. Practically, it offers strategies for integrating digital and in-person engagement, leveraging volunteer networks, and fostering multi-sector collaboration.</p>","PeriodicalId":16026,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Health Communication","volume":" ","pages":"1-10"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2025-11-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145604544","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":"Dying in Silence: Black Maternal Mortality in the United States.","authors":"Jaime Loke, Tania Cantrell Rosas-Moreno","doi":"10.1080/10810730.2025.2541832","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10810730.2025.2541832","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":16026,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Health Communication","volume":" ","pages":"1-11"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2025-08-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144873508","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}
Kristina Medero, Shelly Hovick, Sandra Stranne Miller, Jacob Andrew Charlton, Emily Moyer-Gusé, Tasleem J Padamsee
{"title":"Examining the Impact of a Culture-Centric Narrative on COVID-19 Vaccines and Mental Wellness Among Latinos in the Midwest.","authors":"Kristina Medero, Shelly Hovick, Sandra Stranne Miller, Jacob Andrew Charlton, Emily Moyer-Gusé, Tasleem J Padamsee","doi":"10.1080/10810730.2025.2478914","DOIUrl":"10.1080/10810730.2025.2478914","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The model of culture-centric narratives in health promotion (CNHP) is argued to be most effective for homogenous cultural communities. This study a) compares the impact of narratives designed to speak to two different cultures (i.e. Latindad v. white, Anglo-Saxon culture in the Midwest), and b) examines the potential influence of acculturation on those narrative effects. English-proficient, Latino-identifying adult participants living in the Midwest of the United States (<i>n</i> = 189) were randomly assigned to one of the two narratives about a family's struggles during COVID-19. Participants exposed to the culture-centric narrative found the characters more culturally similar to themselves than those exposed to the white, Anglo-Saxon narrative (<i>t</i> (212) = 3.22, <i>Mean Diff</i>. = .45, <i>SE</i> = .14, <i>p</i> = .001). Some evidence was also found to suggest that acculturation may influence character engagement (<i>F</i> (5, 178) = 2.81, R<sup>2</sup> = .10, <i>p</i> = .003). Implications based on these findings may expand the potential application of the CNHP model, as we discuss the heterogeneity of cultural groups and the impact of demographic representation versus the presentation of cultural values like <i>familismo</i>.</p>","PeriodicalId":16026,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Health Communication","volume":" ","pages":"147-156"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2025-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143663671","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":"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":"200-208"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2025-06-01","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":"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":"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":"219-228"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2025-06-01","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}
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":"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":"180-185"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2025-06-01","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}
Jennifer Stgeorge, Jason Dizon, Lucy Leigh, Jacqui A Macdonald, Richard Fletcher
{"title":"Characterizing Engagement Measures and Profiles in a Mobile Health Intervention, SMS4dads.","authors":"Jennifer Stgeorge, Jason Dizon, Lucy Leigh, Jacqui A Macdonald, Richard Fletcher","doi":"10.1080/10810730.2025.2480155","DOIUrl":"10.1080/10810730.2025.2480155","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>mHealth interventions can efficiently distribute healthcare information to broad populations. However, take-up, adherence or engagement can be hard to assess. Building on previous efforts to create mHealth engagement indices, we developed an engagement metric to measure men's participation in SMS4dads, a message service for men in transition to fatherhood. Data were collected from 3261 fathers in NSW Australia in 2020-2021. An engagement metric was computed as a proportion of interactions across links and texts. Hazard ratios of dropping out were applied as external validity. To further understand men's engagement, we explored characteristics related to engagement in the program. Engagement scores did not significantly differ for rural or urban fathers. Engagement scores differed for Indigenous status, education level, first child status, antenatal enrollment, smoking status, alcohol use, and psychological distress score. The range of Engagement scores suggests that some men respond to few prompts, while others respond to almost all prompts. Understanding characteristics associated with mHealth engagement can improve precision when tailoring interventions to individual needs and vulnerable groups.</p>","PeriodicalId":16026,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Health Communication","volume":" ","pages":"170-179"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2025-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143692417","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":"Inoculating Against Misleading News Reports About the COVID-19 Vaccine: The Roles of Temporal Frames and Actively Open-Minded Thinking.","authors":"Stella Juhyun Lee","doi":"10.1080/10810730.2025.2514842","DOIUrl":"10.1080/10810730.2025.2514842","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Misleading news reports about COVID-19 vaccines may hinder acceptance of COVID-19 vaccines. The present study aimed to first assess the impact of these misleading news reports on people's attitudes and intentions toward getting the COVID-19 vaccine. The second goal was to determine whether inoculation messages could confer resistance to these misleading reports. In addition, the roles of temporal frames in inoculation messages and the individual characteristic of actively open-minded thinking were examined. A randomized experiment that exposed South Korean participants to different types of inoculation messages was carried out (<i>N</i> = 500). Viewing only misleading news articles about the COVID-19 vaccine led to negative attitudes and intentions to avoid it. In contrast, exposure to standard inoculation messages significantly reduced negative attitudes and intentions to avoid the vaccine. Temporal frames did not make a difference. However, those with high actively open-minded thinking styles responded more favorably to future-framed inoculation messages.</p>","PeriodicalId":16026,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Health Communication","volume":" ","pages":"209-218"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2025-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144234339","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":"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":"186-199"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2025-06-01","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}