Improving processing fluency to encourage family health information seeking: The mediating role of communication efficacy.

Drawing from the metacognitive literature, this experimental study examines how the relative ease of retrieving information (i.e. processing fluency) impacts individuals' efficacy about engaging in family health discussions and interpersonal information seeking intention across two health topics: family organ donation status and family health history.

A video intervention to improve patient understanding of tumor genomic testing in patients with cancer.

Introduction: Tumor genomic testing (TGT) is standard-of-care for most patients with advanced/metastatic cancer. Despite established guidelines, patient education prior to TGT is frequently omitted. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the impact of a concise 4 min video for patient education prior to TGT.

A Video Intervention to Improve Patient Understanding of Tumor Genomic Testing in Patients with Cancer.

Background: Tumor genomic testing (TGT) has become standard-of-care for most patients with advanced/metastatic cancer. Despite established guidelines, patient education prior to TGT is variable or frequently omitted. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the impact of a concise (3-4 minute) video for patient education prior to TGT.

Narratives and Mental Illness: Understanding the Factors That Impact Stigmatizing Attitudes and Behavioral Intentions.

Entertainment television has been explored to reduce stigmatizing attitudes toward mental illness by incorporating positive stories about characters with mental illness. Guided by mediated contact theory and the extended elaboration likelihood model, this study examines whether exposure and engagement with entertainment narratives, featuring characters with mental illnesses of varying levels of public stigma, impacts stigmatizing attitudes and intentions to interact with individuals with mental illness generally. Participants ( = 234) were randomized to one of the three conditions: (1) a more stigmatized mental illness (schizophrenia), (2) a less stigmatized mental illness (depression), or (3) a non-mental illness control (cancer).

Assessing the general public's view of direct-to-consumer (DTC) genetic testing and their interpretation of DTC website disclaimer messages.

The general public continues to show increased interest and uptake of Direct-to-Consumer (DTC) genetic testing. We conducted an online survey (N = 405) to assess genetics knowledge, interest, and outcome expectancy of DTC genetic testing before and after exposure to a sample DTC disclaimer message. Descriptive statistics were used to analyze the relationship between previous genetic knowledge, attitudes and self-reported systematic processing of a sample DTC disclaimer message, outcome expectancies, and interest to pursue DTC genetic testing.