Mindfulness buffers the association of pain with depression and anxiety among people with spinal cord injury: A cross-sectional study.

Purpose: Chronic pain is common among people with spinal cord injury (PwSCI) and impacts mental health (MH). Mindfulness may buffer the association of pain with MH, but few studies have examined this among PwSCI. This study examines the extent to which mindfulness moderates the association of pain intensity with MH among PwSCI.

Do 360-Character Wireless Emergency Alert (WEA) Messages Work Better than 90-Character Messages? Testing the Risk Communication Consensus.

Based on early evidence, risk communication scholars have come to believe that longer (360-character maximum) mobile public warning messages generate more compliance than shorter (90-character maximum) messages. This study used an experimental design to test that premise. The study measured participants' ( = 481) likelihood of compliance in response to a mock Wireless Emergency Alert (WEA) message, as well as alternatives to immediate compliance: seeking additional information, taking non-recommended action, or ignoring the message.

Validating Cross-Modal Measures for Comparative Research: Message Veracity, Novelty, and Memorability.

Marketing researchers are interested in the relative persuasiveness of different message modes, such as narratives and arguments. A desire to explicate and compare underlying mechanisms is central to this research, yet progress is hindered by a dearth of measures that can be used meaningfully across modes. In the current project, we identify and validate three cross-modal message perceptions - veracity, novelty, and memorability - that can mediate the relationship between different modes and outcomes.

Stress and Trauma Among Nurses in Development (STAND): A Descriptive Study.

Background: Mental health conditions related to traumatic stress exposure are common in practicing nurses. Less is known about the impact of trauma on nursing students and how it affects their transition to practice.

Objectives: The purpose of this study is to understand the experience of trauma exposure and resulting symptoms in undergraduate nursing students.

Using narratives to correct politically charged health misinformation and address affective belief echoes.

Background: In May 2020, news outlets reported misinformation about the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) related to COVID-19. Correcting misinformation about outbreaks and politics is particularly challenging. Affective belief echoes continue to influence audiences even after successful correction.

Implementation of a 3-phase grid-coupled solar electricity and back-up system at Mulanje Mission Hospital, Malawi.

In this report we describe the implementation of a new electricity supply system at Mulanje Mission Hospital, Malawi, which integrates the use of grid electricity, solar-generated electricity and battery back-up. To realize the system, suppliers from several countries had to be used and external expertise and funding were vital. The completed system provides reliable and good quality electricity to all departments in the hospital, prioritizing essential equipment when needed.

Political Party Collective Norms, Perceived Norms, and Mask Wearing Behavior: A Test of the Theory of Normative Social Behavior.

The theory of normative social behavior (TNSB) postulates that people are influenced by others' behaviors, which they observe from messages and experience. In addition to focusing on perceived (i.e.

Communicating scientific uncertainty in the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic: A message experiment.

The World Health Organization (WHO) officially declared COVID-19 a pandemic on March 11, 2020. It was a time of significant uncertainty as experts were not yet certain whether social distancing behaviors were necessary to slow the spread of the virus. Some public communicators opted to acknowledge uncertainty based on the limited evidence, whereas others downplayed uncertainty.

Examining ways to score the Epidemic-Pandemic Impacts Inventory in parents of young children.

The Epidemic-Pandemic Impacts Inventory (EPII) is a 92-item measure developed to assess tangible impacts of the pandemic including both negative (work, home, social, and health) and positive changes. The EPII has been used in a variety of studies, but a standard scoring system has not been determined. Parents of young children ( = 216) completed the EPII, Perceived Stress Scale, Parenting Stress Scale, Positive and Negative Affect Scale (PANAS-PA and PANAS-NA), and COVID-19 Stress Scale (CSS) online September 2021-May 2022.

Framing COVID-19 Preprint Research as Uncertain: A Mixed-Method Study of Public Reactions.

During the COVID-19 pandemic, journalists were encouraged to convey uncertainty surrounding preliminary scientific evidence, including mentioning when research is unpublished or unverified by peer review. To understand how public audiences interpret this information, we conducted a mixed method study with U.S.

How the public evaluates media representations of uncertain science: An integrated explanatory framework.

Understanding how to portray uncertain science to the public is a pressing goal for science communication. This study compared US public audience reactions to a news article depicting a novel discovery in neurogenomics as certain or uncertain, with statements of (un)certainty attributed to either affiliated or unaffiliated scientists. The uncertainty disclosure had no main effect on perceived news article credibility, scientist trustworthiness, objectivity of the scientists' depiction, or willingness to participate in genomic research.

Tailored visuals, implementation interventions, and sun safe behavior: A longitudinal message experiment.

Objective: One way to communicate skin cancer risk is through ultraviolet (UV) photographs, which can depict the target person (tailored visual) or someone else (stock visual). There is a need for more longitudinal research examining the relative impact of tailored UV photographs compared with other message interventions that could increase sun safe behaviors.

Method: Students 14-18 years of age ( = 654) at eleven high schools in Utah were recruited to participate in a longitudinal experiment (assessments: pretest, posttest, 1 month follow-up) comparing the relative persuasive impact of receiving either (a) stock and tailored UV photographs or (b) stock UV photographs and an implementation intervention on outdoor tanning behavior.

Feasibility, Acceptability, and Efficacy of Mindfulness Training in People With Upper Motor Neuron Disorders: A Systematic Review.

Objectives: This systematic review aims to gain a comprehensive understanding of the feasibility, acceptability, and efficacy of mindfulness-based interventions (MBIs) on depression, anxiety, fatigue, and health-related quality of life among individuals with upper motor neuron disorders (UMNDs).

Data Sources: PubMed, PsycINFO, Excerpta Medica Database, and Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature were searched for relevant studies published between January 2001 and June 2021.

Study Selection: Clinical trials published in English evaluating MBIs in adults with the 4 most common UMNDs (multiple sclerosis, brain injury including stroke, spinal cord injury, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis) were included.

Development and Initial Feasibility of a Hospital-Based Acceptance and Commitment Therapy Intervention to Improve Retention in Care for Out-of-Care Persons with HIV: Lessons Learned from an Open Pilot Trial.

Roughly 40% of persons with HIV (PWH) are not consistently involved in HIV care in the US. Finding out-of-care PWH is difficult, but hospitalization is common and presents an opportunity to re-engage PWH in outpatient care. The aims of this study were to (1) develop an Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)-based intervention for hospitalized, out-of-care PWH who endorse avoidance-coping to improve HIV treatment engagement; (2) examine the intervention’s initial feasibility and acceptability; and (3) to revise the study protocol (including the intervention), based on stakeholder feedback, in preparation for a randomized controlled trial (RCT) comparing ACT to treatment as usual.

Potentially morally injurious events as a mediator of the association of gratitude and mindfulness with distress.

Objective: Potentially morally injurious events (PMIEs) are events that contradict one's own personal ethics and may promote a deep sense of violation, leading to psychological distress. Individuals with greater trait gratitude and mindfulness may be less likely to perceive events as being morally injurious and may, in turn, be less likely to experience subsequent distress. The current study seeks to examine (a) PMIE rates in a multioccupational first responder sample and (b) the indirect effect of trait gratitude and mindfulness on psychological distress via fewer perceived PMIEs.

Sleep moderates the effects of Tibetan yoga for women with breast cancer undergoing chemotherapy.

This study examined self-reported and actigraphy-assessed sleep and depression as moderators of the effect of a Tibetan yoga intervention on sleep and depression among women undergoing chemotherapy for breast cancer. This is a secondary analysis of an RCT examining a 4-session Tibetan yoga program (TYP; n = 74) versus stretching program (STP; n = 68) or usual care (UC; n = 85) on self-reported sleep (Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (PSQI), actigraphy-assessed sleep efficiency (SE)) and depression (Centers for Epidemiological Studies Depression Scale; CES-D) for women undergoing chemotherapy for breast cancer. Data were collected at baseline and 1-week and 3-month post-intervention.

Are some narratives better than others?: The impact of different narrative forms on adolescents' intentions to text and drive.

Psychological reactance theory posits individuals seek to restore freedom when threatened. Communication scholars have hypothesized persuasive messages can constitute threats to freedom. The current study engages questions about the potential for different forms of narratives in public service announcements (PSAs) to trigger freedom threats by examining responses to a PSA campaign that utilized three forms of narrative (celebrity testimonials, peer testimonials, and accident stories) to decrease adolescent texting and driving intentions.

Risk and protective markers for well-being in Latinx immigrants in removal proceedings.

Objectives: There are currently 1,308,327 immigrants in removal proceedings, over 80% of whom are Latinx (TRAC, 2021b). This study examined the relation among putative protective markers (i.e.

The Impact of Communicating Uncertainty on Public Responses to Precision Medicine Research.

Background: Precision medicine research depends upon recruiting large and diverse participant cohorts to provide genetic, environmental, and lifestyle data. How prospective participants react to information about this research, including depictions of uncertainty, is not well understood.

Purpose: The current study examined public responses to precision medicine research, focusing on reactions toward (a) uncertainty about the scientific impact of sharing data for research, and (b) uncertainty about the privacy, security, or intended uses of participant data.

Theory utilization in current communication of cancer genetic testing research: Identified gaps and opportunities.

Background: Effective communication of cancer-related genetic and genomic testing (CGT) with patients and the public is paramount to transforming and managing cancer prevention, detection, and care. Behavioral and social science theories could improve communication effectiveness and, in turn, health outcomes.

Methods: In this study, we characterized the use of theory in recent research on communication about CGT from 2010 to 2017.

Digital Health Engagement in the US Population: Insights From the 2018 Health Information National Trends Survey.

To examine prevalence and predictors of digital health engagement among the US population. We analyzed nationally representative cross-sectional data on 7 digital health engagement behaviors, as well as demographic and socioeconomic predictors, from the Health Information National Trends Survey (HINTS 5, cycle 2, collected in 2018; n = 2698-3504). We fitted multivariable logistic regression models using weighted survey responses to generate population estimates.

Impact of Psychiatric Diagnoses and Treatment on Postoperative Outcomes Among Patients Undergoing Surgery for Colorectal Cancer.

Objective: Psychiatric diagnoses may be a risk factor for poor colorectal cancer (CRC) surgery outcomes. The authors investigated the risk of psychiatric diagnoses and benefit of mental health treatment for surgery outcomes among CRC patients.

Methods: This retrospective cohort study of patients undergoing CRC surgery in the 2000-2014 period identified documentation of psychiatric diagnosis and mental health treatment (no treatment, medication only, psychotherapy only, or both medication and psychotherapy) 30 days before surgery.

Patient characteristics associated with sleep disturbance in breast cancer survivors.

Background: Disturbed sleep is common among breast cancer survivors. Identifying patients at risk for disturbed sleep and its sequelae will aid in improving screening and intervention strategies to improve sleep and cancer-related quality of life (QOL).

Methods: Women with stages I-III breast cancer undergoing neoadjuvant or adjuvant chemotherapy (N = 415) reported subjectively assessed sleep quality (PSQI) and actigraphy-assessed wake after sleep onset (AAS-WASO), total sleep time (AAS-TST), and sleep efficiency (AAS-SE), sociodemographic, and clinical characteristics and completed questionnaires assessing physical and mental health QOL at study entry and 3, 6, 12, and 15 months later.