Fukaya, Yasuko Kawaguchi, Minato Okabe, Meiko Koyama, Sachiyo Kitamura, Takanori
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Health communication
The lack of daily conversation may lead to the deterioration of quality of life and cognitive function in older adults requiring long-term care. This study aimed to develop a scale to measure daily conversation among them, the Life-Worldly Communication Scale: LWCS, and to test its structural, convergent, and discriminant validity. The subjects wer...
Clayton, Russell B Myrick, Jessica G Dale, Katherine R Park, Junho Sarra, Emily Hechlik, Ella
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Health communication
Health communication scholars have provided ample evidence demonstrating the ways in which freedom-threatening language used in persuasive health messages evokes freedom-threat perceptions, state psychological reactance, and intentions to engage in behaviors opposite of those recommended by the health message. This study examined a novel mitigation...
Cohen, Elizabeth L West, Mckay Yoshimura, Koji Farrell, Molly E Swain, Ashleigh
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Health communication
Although the influence of celebrities on public health-related attitudes and behaviors is well established, the specific role that celebrity examples play in shaping health-related social norm perceptions is not well understood. To examine the effect of celebrities on social norm perceptions, young adults were randomly assigned to read news article...
Broadbridge, Elizabeth Greene, Kathryn Venetis, Maria K Lee, Lauren E Banerjee, Smita C Buckley de Meritens, Alexandre Catona, Danielle Devine, Katie A
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Health communication
Provider empathy is a crucial component in establishing therapeutic provider-patient relationships. The benefits of increased perceptions of empathy can support patient psychological adjustment to their cancer as well as patients' comfort and confidence in disclosing to providers, ultimately promoting patient engagement. Guided by the disclosure de...
Kuang, Kai Wang, Ningxin
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Health communication
Millions of people around the world are affected by mental illness, yet a substantive portion of individuals with mental illness do not regularly seek help from medical professionals or utilize mental health services. Help-seeking involves an individual's communicative intention and behaviors to solicit advice and/or treatment and thus is essential...
Jensen, Robin E Krall, Madison A
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Health communication
The United States faces troubling fertility trends that include high percentages of unintended pregnancies, as well as record-low fertility rates and individuals having fewer offspring than they desire. To address these problems, scholars and public health advocates have argued for the implementation of fertility information into existing sex-educa...
Pfeifer, Valeria A Weihs, Karen L Lai, Vicky T
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Health communication
Metaphors are pervasive in cancer discourse. However, little is known about how metaphor use develops over time within the same patient, and how metaphor use and its content relate to the mental health of the patient. Here, we analyzed metaphor use in personal essays written by breast cancer patients shortly after the time of diagnosis and nine mon...
McCrea, Sean M Thürmer, J Lukas Helm, Matthew R Erion, C J Krueger, Kem
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Health communication
The association of medical experts with politically left-leaning cities and states early in the COVID-19 pandemic may have exacerbated vaccine hesitancy in right-leaning states of the US. Criticism from outside experts violates rules of communication between social groups (i.e. an intergroup sensitivity effect), leading to rejection of messages pro...
Nah, Soya Williamson, Lillie D Kahlor, Lee Ann Atkinson, Lucy Upshaw, Sean J Ntang-Beb, Jean-Louis
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Health communication
The COVID-19 pandemic has brought unprecedented challenges to healthcare and public health messaging in the United States. One area of focus has been vaccination uptake among Black Americans, who have experienced COVID-19 deaths disproportionate to their share of the United States population, raising questions about the processes involved in vaccin...
Alves-Nogueira, Ana C Góis, Ana Carolina Pereira, Marco Canavarro, Maria Cristina Melo, Cláudia Carona, Carlos
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Health communication
Physician-Patient communication (PPC) has been linked to patient adjustment outcomes. However, conflicting results have been reported and previous systematic reviews showed some methodological weaknesses. It has also been suggested that PPC is related to physicians' own adjustment outcomes. This systematic review aims to explore and synthesize the ...
