{"title":"Scaling the Idea of Opinion Leadership to Address Health Misinformation: The Case for \"Health Communication AI\".","authors":"A Burke-Garcia, R Soskin Hicks","doi":"10.1080/10810730.2024.2357575","DOIUrl":"10.1080/10810730.2024.2357575","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>There is strong evidence of the impact of opinion leaders in health promotion programs. Early work by Burke-Garcia suggests that social media influencers are the opinion leaders of the digital age as they come from the communities they influence, have built trust with them, and may be useful in combating misinformation by disseminating credible and timely health information and prompting consideration of health behaviors. AI has contributed to the spread of misinformation, but it can also be a vital part of the solution, informing and educating in real time and at scale. Personalized, empathetic messaging is crucial, though, and research supports that individuals are drawn to empathetic AI responses and prefer them to human responses in some digital environments. This mimics what we know about influencers and how they approach communicating with their followers. Blending what we know about social media influencers as opinion leaders with the power and scale of AI can enable us to address the spread of misinformation. This paper reviews the knowledge base and proposes the development of something we term \"Health Communication AI\" - perhaps the newest form of opinion leader - to fight health misinformation.</p>","PeriodicalId":16026,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Health Communication","volume":" ","pages":"396-399"},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2024-06-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141237678","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}
Erin A Vogel, Lynsie R Ranker, Paul T Harrell, Joy L Hart, Grace Kong, Scott McIntosh, Helen I Meissner, Jenny E Ozga, Dan Romer, Cassandra A Stanton
{"title":"Characteristics of Adolescents' and Young Adults' Exposure to and Engagement with Nicotine and Tobacco Product Content on Social Media.","authors":"Erin A Vogel, Lynsie R Ranker, Paul T Harrell, Joy L Hart, Grace Kong, Scott McIntosh, Helen I Meissner, Jenny E Ozga, Dan Romer, Cassandra A Stanton","doi":"10.1080/10810730.2024.2355291","DOIUrl":"10.1080/10810730.2024.2355291","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>To inform policy and messaging, this study examined characteristics of adolescents' and young adults' (AYAs') exposure to and engagement with nicotine and tobacco product (NTP) social media (SM) content. In this cross-sectional survey study, AYAs aged 13-26 (<i>N</i>=1,163) reported current NTP use, SM use frequency, and exposure to and engagement with SM content promoting and opposing NTP use (i.e. frequency, source[s], format[s], platform[s]). Participants who used NTPs (vs. did not use) were more likely to report having seen NTP content (p-values<.001). Prevalent sources were companies/brands (46.6%) and influencers (44.4%); prevalent formats were video (65.4%) and image (50.7%). Exposure to content promoting NTP use was prevalent on several popular platforms (e.g. TikTok, Instagram, Snapchat); exposure to content opposing NTP use was most prevalent on YouTube (75.8%). Among those reporting content engagement (i.e. liking, commenting on, or sharing NTP content; 34.6%), 57.2% engaged with influencer content. Participants reported engaging with content promoting and opposing NTP use on popular platforms (e.g. TikTok, Instagram, YouTube). Participants with (versus without) current NTP use were significantly more likely to use most SM platforms and to report NTP content exposure and engagement (p-values<.05). Results suggest that NTP education messaging and enforcement of platforms' content restrictions are needed.</p>","PeriodicalId":16026,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Health Communication","volume":" ","pages":"383-393"},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2024-06-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11229177/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141075831","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":"Precious Information: Getting Interpretable, Actionable Health Communications Data.","authors":"Heather Lanthorn, Corrina Moucheraud, Ryan Sheely","doi":"10.1080/10810730.2024.2361122","DOIUrl":"10.1080/10810730.2024.2361122","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Doing high-quality health communications requires high-quality data, both to describe information environments and diets and as outcomes for program evaluations that seek to change them and the behaviors they foster. When we understand where people gather information, what they learn there, and how it encourages them to act, we can better diagnose where to focus energy and resources-for example, whether to amplify high-quality sources, address low-quality information, or fill information voids with actionable ideas. Too often, however, researchers collect data in ways that conflate the sources of information, the channels through which information is communicated, and the content of that information. This thwarts opportunities to identify specific problems and opportunities. We call for conceptual precision to make good use of respondents' time, to be good stewards of funders' money, and to effectively address the large challenges we face in encouraging protective, pro-social health behaviors.</p>","PeriodicalId":16026,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Health Communication","volume":" ","pages":"407-408"},"PeriodicalIF":4.4,"publicationDate":"2024-06-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141283915","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":"The Future Is Now: New Perspectives from Members of the Council for Quality Health Communication.","authors":"Kenneth H Rabin, Scott C Ratzan","doi":"10.1080/10810730.2024.2359859","DOIUrl":"10.1080/10810730.2024.2359859","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":16026,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Health Communication","volume":" ","pages":"394-395"},"PeriodicalIF":4.4,"publicationDate":"2024-06-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141179930","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}
Daniel Romer, Shawn Patterson, Patrick E Jamieson, Kathleen Hall Jamieson
{"title":"What Caused the Narrowing of Black-White COVID-19 Vaccination Disparity in the US? A Test of 5 Hypotheses.","authors":"Daniel Romer, Shawn Patterson, Patrick E Jamieson, Kathleen Hall Jamieson","doi":"10.1080/10810730.2024.2354360","DOIUrl":"10.1080/10810730.2024.2354360","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Despite differential uptake of COVID-19 vaccination between Black and non-Hispanic White Americans early in the pandemic, the gap narrowed over time. We tested five hypotheses that could explain the reduction in the disparity. Using a national probability panel of over 1800 individuals surveyed from April 2021 to July 2022, we assessed receipt of recommended doses of COVID-19 vaccines along with (a) reported exposure to deaths due to COVID-19, (b) trust in US health authorities, such as the CDC, (c) knowledge about the safety and efficacy of COVID-19 vaccination, (d) media use as a source of information, and (e) access to COVID-19 vaccines. Only increases in knowledge about the safety and efficacy of COVID-19 vaccines uniquely mediated the increase in vaccination uptake among non-Hispanic Black compared to White, Asian and Hispanic panelists. While trust in CDC and exposure to COVID-19 deaths were related to vaccination acceptance at baseline, those factors were not associated with change in reported vaccination coverage. In addition, neither differential access nor media use explained the increase. Enhanced knowledge about the safety and efficacy of COVID-19 vaccination transmitted from within the Black community likely helped to increase vaccination relative to other racial-ethnic groups.</p>","PeriodicalId":16026,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Health Communication","volume":" ","pages":"371-382"},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2024-06-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140957269","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}
Charee M Thompson, Manuel D Pulido, Suma Gangidi, Paul Arnold
{"title":"How Chronic Pain Patients' and Physicians' Communication Influences Patients' Uncertainty: A Pre- and Post-Consultation Study.","authors":"Charee M Thompson, Manuel D Pulido, Suma Gangidi, Paul Arnold","doi":"10.1080/10810730.2024.2352556","DOIUrl":"10.1080/10810730.2024.2352556","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Chronic pain is a health problem that is difficult to diagnose, treat, and manage, partly owing to uncertainty surrounding ambiguous causes, few treatment options, and frequent misunderstandings in clinical encounters. Pairing uncertainty management theory with medical communication competence, we predicted that both physicians and patients are influential to patients' uncertainty appraisals and uncertainty management. We collected pre- and post-consultation data from 200 patients with chronic neck and spine/back pain and their physicians. Patients' reports of their physician's communication were a consistent predictor of their post-consultation uncertainty outcomes. Physicians' reports of both their own and patients' communication competence were associated with patients' positive uncertainty appraisals. Physicians' reports of patients' communication competence were also associated with reductions in patients' uncertainty. Findings illustrate how both interactants' perceptions of communication competence-how they view their own (for physicians) and the other's-are associated with patients' post-consultation outcomes.</p>","PeriodicalId":16026,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Health Communication","volume":" ","pages":"357-370"},"PeriodicalIF":4.4,"publicationDate":"2024-05-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140922361","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":"Media Influence on Bystander Intervention for Health Protective Norms: The Integrative Model of Behavioral Prediction Perspective.","authors":"Ilwoo Ju, Bhakti Pankaj Chavda, Hwanseok Song","doi":"10.1080/10810730.2024.2352535","DOIUrl":"10.1080/10810730.2024.2352535","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Drawing upon the Integrative Model of Behavioral Prediction (IM) and the Bystander Intervention Model, this study investigates the impact of media health information on individuals' intentions to address violations of health norms, specifically noncompliance with mask-wearing during the COVID-19 pandemic. Our survey results (<i>n</i>=1,426) indicate a positive correlation between seeking health information from the media and the intention to confront norm violators regarding mask-wearing. This correlation is mediated through three intermediary pathways: attitudes, normative beliefs, and perceived behavioral control. These discoveries address a previously unexplored area concerning pro-social health behaviors, bystander intervention, and contribute to the field of health communication by linking them to research on media influences. Combining media and peer interventions could lead to more effective health outcomes. The discussion covers both theoretical and practical implications.</p>","PeriodicalId":16026,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Health Communication","volume":" ","pages":"347-356"},"PeriodicalIF":4.4,"publicationDate":"2024-05-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140922363","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}
Siobhan Conaty, John David Ike, Whitney Lane, Henry Bayerle, Robert A Logan, Ruth M Parker
{"title":"Understanding Breast Cancer Images in Art History as a Form of Health Communication.","authors":"Siobhan Conaty, John David Ike, Whitney Lane, Henry Bayerle, Robert A Logan, Ruth M Parker","doi":"10.1080/10810730.2024.2342364","DOIUrl":"10.1080/10810730.2024.2342364","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Can art and visual images meant for public consumption (museums, galleries, social media platforms) serve as a critical form of health communication for breast cancer patients? For their clinicians? For the population at large? Art history research methods are applied to a range of breast cancer images in western art in order to understand what the images communicate to us about patient experience, agency, and inequity in health care at the time of their construction. The following is a selective look at western art as it reflects and informs our understanding of breast cancer over time.</p>","PeriodicalId":16026,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Health Communication","volume":" ","pages":"340-346"},"PeriodicalIF":4.4,"publicationDate":"2024-05-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140850959","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":"Engaging and (the Illusion of) Learning? Examining the Relationship Between Different Social Media Activities and Reproductive Health Knowledge","authors":"Lianshan Zhang, Yujie Dong, Chervin Lam, Zhongwei Huang","doi":"10.1080/10810730.2024.2339261","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10810730.2024.2339261","url":null,"abstract":"Social media have become fundamental platforms for learning about health, including reproductive health knowledge. However, little is known about what specific user activity is conducive to learnin...","PeriodicalId":16026,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Health Communication","volume":"10 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.4,"publicationDate":"2024-04-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140578512","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}
Victoria Orrego Dunleavy, Regina Jihea Ahn, Lindsay D. Grace, Daniel Mayo
{"title":"Acceptability and Feasibility of “Latinos Unidos”: A Microgame Resource Combatting Health Misinformation for Latinos Living with HIV","authors":"Victoria Orrego Dunleavy, Regina Jihea Ahn, Lindsay D. Grace, Daniel Mayo","doi":"10.1080/10810730.2024.2339238","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10810730.2024.2339238","url":null,"abstract":"COVID-19 mitigation strategies, including shelter-in-place orders, masking, and social distancing combined with the widespread “infodemic” may interact synergistically to worsen already compromised...","PeriodicalId":16026,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Health Communication","volume":"19 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.4,"publicationDate":"2024-04-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140578311","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}