Titus, Andrea R Thrasher, James F Gamarel, Kristi E Emery, Sherry L Elliott, Michael R Fleischer, Nancy L
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Health education & behavior : the official publication of the Society for Public Health Education
The prevalence of smoking is higher among sexual minority (SM) individuals compared with heterosexuals. The impact of televised anti-tobacco mass media campaigns on smoking outcomes among SMs is not known. We examined whether televised anti-tobacco advertising was differentially associated with current smoking and smoking intensity for SM and heter...
Hobson, Zoë Yesberg, Julia A Bradford, Ben
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Journal of interpersonal violence
In the UK, knife crime continues to be a persistent and worrying concern. Media campaigns are often used by police and anti-knife crime organisations in an attempt to discourage young people from picking up a weapon. Many focus on the potentially devastating consequences associated with carrying a weapon, with the aim of provoking fear and thus a d...
Faherty, Georgia Williams, Lorraine Noyes, Jane Mc Laughlin, Leah Bostock, Jennifer Mays, Nicholas
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Frontiers in Public Health
Background Preceded by a national media campaign, in May 2020, England switched to a soft opt-out system of organ donation which rests on the assumption that individuals meeting specific criteria have consented to organ donation unless they have expressed otherwise. We aimed to learn more about how the changes were communicated, how people responde...
Nardi-Rodríguez, Ainara Paredes-López, Nerea
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Violence against women
During the pandemic, neighbors can be potential allies to prevent intimate partner violence against women (IPVAW). Based on the reasoned action approach, we identified the predictors and the most relevant beliefs behind neighbors' intention to report to authorities that a woman is being victimized by IPVAW. A total of 352 Spanish participants compl...
Marthey, Daniel Rashid, Hira Xie, Liyang Boudreaux, Michel
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Health services research
Assess the impact of the Be Your Own Baby (BYOB) public awareness campaign including population-level exposure, the effectiveness of ad platforms, and the effect of the campaign on family planning clinic attendance, the campaign's primary goal. The study relied on administrative data on traffic and engagement from the campaign's website, population...
Case, Philippa Angus, Colin De Vocht, Frank Holmes, John Michie, Susan Brown, Jamie
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Drug and Alcohol Dependence
Aims Dry January is a national multimedia campaign in the UK that encourages people to abstain from drinking alcohol during the month of January. The population-level campaign makes extensive use of email and social media to support participants and has reported a substantial increase in participation since 2015. This study aimed to assess whether ...
Cho, Beomyoung Colston, David C. Fleischer, Nancy L. Thrasher, James F. Titus, Andrea R. Xie, Yanmei Emery, Sherry Elliott, Michael R.
Purpose: To evaluate sociodemographic differences in the relationship between state and national anti-smoking media campaigns and cessation behaviors among adult smokers in the U.S. Design: Repeated cross-sectional analysis. Setting: U.S. nationally representative survey of adults ages 18 and older, 2001-2015. Subjects: 76,278 year-ago smokers from...
McCullough, Anna Meernik, Clare Baker, Hannah Jarman, Kristen Walsh, Barbara Goldstein, Adam O
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Health promotion practice
People with low socioeconomic status (SES) in the United States have disparately high rates of smoking and experience disproportionately high burdens of smoking-related disease. Tobacco control media campaigns are a critical strategy for reducing tobacco use prevalence, but evidence is mixed about the optimal use of mass media to reach and promote ...
Divjak, Marko Zabukovec, Vlasta
V prispevku je predstavljena evalvacija preventivne akcije EUCHIRES (EUropean public awareness campaign on the use of seat bealts and CHIld REstraint Systems) za spodbujanje uporabe varnostnih pasov in otroških varnostnih sedežev (OVS), ki je vključevala medijsko kampanjo, projektno delo v izbranih slovenskih vrtcih ter preventivno in represivno de...
Navarro Moreno, José Antonio Olmo López, Agustín
The Department of Institutional Communication of the European Union (EU) is one of the largest in the world. It produces information on activities of the European Commission, Parliament and the Regional Fund. In recent years, some events (e.g., ones related to the euro, enlargement, constitution, crisis) have tarnished the image of the EU in the ey...
