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Superlatives, clickbaits, appeals to authority, poor grammar, or boldface: Is editorial style related to the credibility of online health messages?
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August 2022
Centre of Social and Psychological Sciences, Institute of Experimental Psychology, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Bratislava, Slovakia.
Adolescents, as active online searchers, have easy access to health information. Much health information they encounter online is of poor quality and even contains potentially harmful health information. The ability to identify the quality of health messages disseminated online technologies is needed in terms of health attitudes and behaviors.
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Pulmonology
May 2022
Office of Medical Student Research, Oklahoma State University Center for Health Sciences, Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA; Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Oklahoma State University Center for Health Sciences, Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA.
Superlatives in news articles reporting non-FDA approved indications for use of cannabis and cannabis products with a focus on psychiatric disorders: a cross-sectional analysis.
J Ment Health
February 2022
Office of Medical Student Research, Oklahoma State University Center for Health Sciences, Tulsa, OK, USA.
The exaggerated language used in news articles to describe the benefits of cannabis for conditions without FDA indications may mislead the public and healthcare providers. Thus, this study's objective was to investigate the use of exaggerated language in news articles focused on cannabis and cannabis-derived products. Using a cross-sectional study design, we searched Google News from March 3, 2020, and September 3, 2019 for 11 prespecified superlative terms along with the search terms "cannabis," "cannabidiol," "pot," "marijuana," "weed," and "CBD.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFNews articles and their use of sensational language have the potential to influence health behaviors and decisions, thus the purpose of this study was to evaluate the use of sensational language (i.e., superlatives) describing stem cell therapies in public news articles.
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Mult Scler Relat Disord
April 2021
Oklahoma State University Center for Health Sciences, Office of Medical Student Research, Tulsa, OK, United States.
Background: Superlatives are exaggerative terms that may not accurately portray a treatment's effectiveness, safety, or availability.
Objectives: The objective of this study was to evaluate the use of superlatives in news articles describing multiple sclerosis treatments.
Methods: We searched Google News for 11 prespecified superlative terms describing multiple sclerosis therapies in online news articles.
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