The Pursuit of Positive Impacts: Translating Longitudinal Cancer Studies into Successful Health Communication Interventions.

Over a decade ago, in the 100th issue of (; 2010), 30 "impact" articles addressed how our collective research findings had been translated to make a positive difference for persons across diverse communities. It is laudable to develop projects helping others to enhance their awareness about healthy living, refine practical communication skills to promote behavioral change, and rely on findings to enact important practices and policies giving priority to how well and long we live in contemporary society. As a preview, however, an article entitled "Why is it so difficult to talk about impact?" raised a series of inherent challenges faced whenever we conduct our research to advance basic knowledge by pursuing meaningful translation opportunities.

Preferred Communication Strategies Used by Physical Therapists in Chronic Pain Rehabilitation: A Qualitative Systematic Review and Meta-Synthesis.

Objective: Lack of clarity regarding effective communication behaviors in chronic pain management is a barrier for implementing psychologically informed physical therapy approaches that rely on competent communication by physical therapist providers. This study aimed to conduct a systematic review and meta-synthesis to inform the development of a conceptual framework for preferred communication behaviors in pain rehabilitation.

Methods: Ten databases in the health and communication sciences were systematically searched for qualitative and mixed-method studies of interpersonal communication between physical therapists and adults with chronic pain.

A White Family's Oral Storytelling About Cancer Generates More Favorable Evaluations From Black American Audiences.

One proposition of Entertainment Education (EE) suggests that actors communicating messages should be ethnically and culturally homogenous with targeted audiences. The present study challenges this assumption by investigating audience evaluations of When Cancer Calls..

Patient-Initiated Pain Expressions: Interactional Asymmetries and Consequences for Cancer Care.

Only minimal attention has been given to analyzing interactional moments when patients and providers talk about "pain" in general consultations and primary care, and no attention has focused on how pain gets managed during oncology interviews. Conversation analysis (CA) is used to examine a sampling of instances drawn from a collection of 146 pain instances across 65 video recorded and transcribed clinical encounters in a comprehensive cancer clinic. Specific attention is drawn to how pain descriptions are not static but malleable as cancer patients upgrade, downgrade, and produce combined orientations when making their experiences available to oncologists.