The Impact of Generativity Awareness on Mid- to Old-Age Smokers in China.

Smoking remains a serious health threat to many mid- to old-age Chinese people. Many smoking interventions have been implemented in public areas, but smoking occurring in a private setting, such as at home, has largely been neglected. Generativity is based on evaluating the worth of one's life experience that can be passed on to others.

Keep Doing the Good Work: Impact of Coworker and Community Support on Continuation of Breastfeeding.

Returning to work poses a challenge to new mothers' breastfeeding success during the first 6 months postpartum. While previous research has shown that breastfeeding-related workplace policy plays a significant role in women's decision to continue breastfeeding, the extent to which interpersonal factors such as coworkers' (lack of) support and stigma affect women's breastfeeding behavior is less understood. Through a cross-sectional survey with 500 working mothers, this research found that female coworker support of other women played an important role in affecting mothers' decision to continue breastfeeding after returning to work and contributed to breastfeeding self-efficacy.

Ethical debate over organ donation in the context of brain death.

This study investigated what information about brain death was available from Google searches for five major religions. A substantial body of supporting research examining online behaviors shows that information seekers use Google as their preferred search engine and usually limit their search to entries on the first page. For each of the five religions in this study, Google listings reveal ethical controversy about organ donation in the context of brain death.

The healing web.

We focused on the computer-mediated communication (CMC) of social support in an electronic health discussion group dealing with menopause and midlife transition to show how vital support is to women who are trying to make sense of the change in their lives. We analyzed 2,000 messages, examining the type and frequency of support messages, how support was demonstrated, and how support was recognized by participants. We then provided evidence to show that a community of support had developed.