Who says what to whom through what channel? Formative communication research on antibiotic resistance messaging for urgent care patients.

Objective: To explore the source, message, channel, and receiver effects on patient concern for antibiotic resistance, willingness to reduce antibiotic use, and expectations for an antibiotic prescription in a prepandemic sample.

Methods: We used data reported from a national cross-sectional survey of adults who had visited an urgent care center within the last year. Data were collected from April 4 to April 9, 2017.

Evaluation of a nature-based virtual reality intervention to support hospice caregivers: a pilot feasibility study.

Objectives: Hospice family caregivers (CGs) may experience poor emotional health and diminished quality of life (QOL) secondary to stressors that accompany home-based end-of-life caregiving. Innovative flexible strategies are needed to support hospice CGs in their homes. Being outdoors in nature enhances well-being but is often not accessible to home-based CGs.

Meeting the Needs of Emerging Adults With Type 1 Diabetes Living in a Rural Area With Mobile Health Interventions: Focus Group Study.

Background: Emerging adults (EAs; age 18-30 years) with type 1 diabetes (T1D) have more challenges with diabetes management and glycemic control than other age groups. Living in a rural community introduces additional unique diabetes care challenges due to limited access to specialty care and ancillary support services. Yet, few interventions have been developed to improve diabetes management in rural-dwelling EAs with T1D.

Influence of cultural values and hierarchical social norms on buying counterfeits online: a 17-country study.

Introduction: As a globally prevalent phenomenon, buying counterfeit products harms consumers, economies, societies, governments, and the environment. The study examined the hierarchy of injunctive normative influence (personal vs. societal) on counterfeit purchase intentions and trends in non-deceptive (known) counterfeit purchase behavior.

Neutrality and impartiality in Midwestern U.S. newspapers: community-oriented newspaper journalists reporting of environmental water problems in agricultural and ranching states.

Background: U.S. journalists embedded in rural and agricultural communities could adversely affect the health of residents if they avoid alerting and engaging their readers - farmers, ranchers, and community members - on environmental and health issues.

Vaccine rhetoric on social media and COVID-19 vaccine uptake rates: A triangulation using self-reported vaccine acceptance.

The primary goal of this study is to examine the association between vaccine rhetoric on Twitter and the public's uptake rates of COVID-19 vaccines in the United States, compared to the extent of an association between self-reported vaccine acceptance and the CDC's uptake rates. We downloaded vaccine-related posts on Twitter in real-time daily for 13 months, from October 2021 to September 2022, collecting over half a billion tweets. A previously validated deep-learning algorithm was then applied to (1) filter out irrelevant tweets and (2) group the remaining relevant tweets into pro-, anti-, and neutral vaccine sentiments.

Examining the exposure-reception-retention link in realistic communication environments via VR and eye-tracking: The VR billboard paradigm.

Exposure is key to message effects. No effects can ensue if a health, political, or commercial message is not noticed. Yet, existing research in communication, advertising, and related disciplines often measures 'opportunities for exposure' at an aggregate level, whereas knowing whether recipients were 'actually exposed' to a message requires a micro-level approach.

Adaptation and Validation of Overall Assessment of the Speaker's Experience of Stuttering for Adults in Kannada (OASES-A-K).

Introduction: Psychosocial aspects of stuttering may affect the quality of life of a person who stutters (PWS). Further, the social stigma and experiences of PWS may vary globally. The WHO-ICF guidelines recommend quality of life as an essential component in the assessment of individuals who stutter.

Design and Implementation of the Surveys of Women: Protocol for an Address-Based Sampling Multimodal Study.

Background: Studies conducted in the United States such as the National Survey of Family Growth (NSFG) and the Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System (PRAMS) collect data on pregnancy intentions to aid in improving health education, services, and programs. PRAMS collects data from specific sites, and NSFG is a national household-based survey. Like NSFG, the Surveys of Women was designed to survey participants residing in households using an address-based sample and a multimode data collection approach.

Effects of Technology Use on Self-Reported Physical Activity: A Behavioral Change Perspective.

Previous research finds initial evidence that affordances of interactivity, agency, and modality can help increase physical activity (PA). However, the cross-sectional nature of these studies provides a snapshot of behavior but does not assess the impact of affordances of technology on in PA behavior. In this study, we bridge this gap and test if features of technology that afford interactivity, agency, and choice of modality will be associated with an increase in PA across time.

Supporting Parents of Children With Type 1 Diabetes: Experiment Comparing Message and Delivery Types.

Background: Type 1 diabetes (T1D) is a chronic condition that typically affects young age group people and is estimated to afflict approximately 154,000 people younger than 20 years in the United States. Since T1D typically impacts children, parents must play an active role in helping their child manage the condition. This creates a substantial burden and responsibility for the parents.

Artificial Intelligence in Health: Enhancing a Return to Patient-Centered Communication.

The medical environment is on the verge of a dramatic transformation as artificial intelligence (AI) evolves. With the inevitable shift toward AI in health care delivery, there are concerns around its implementation, including ethics, privacy, data representation, and the potential for eliminating physicians. However, AI cannot replicate a physician's knowledge and understanding of the patient as a person and the conditions in which he or she lives.

Visual perceptual salience and novel referent selection in children with and without autism spectrum disorder.

Background & Aims: Many young children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) demonstrate striking delays in early vocabulary development. Experimental studies that teach the meanings of novel nonwords can determine the effects of linguistic and attentional factors. One factor that may affect novel referent selection in children with ASD is visual perceptual salience-how interesting (i.

Efficacy of a 5-day, intensive, multidisciplinary, outpatient physical and occupational therapy protocol in the treatment of functional movement disorders: A retrospective study.

Background: The use of rehabilitation services has been shown to be beneficial for patients with functional movement disorders (FMD). However, there is great variability in the type of rehabilitation services utilized. In the present study we aimed at determining the efficacy of an intense outpatient physical rehabilitation program as a treatment modality for patients with FMD.

Motivational Interviewing Conversational Agent for Parents as Proxies for Their Children in Healthy Eating: Development and User Testing.

Background: Increased adoption of off-the-shelf conversational agents (CAs) brings opportunities to integrate therapeutic interventions. Motivational Interviewing (MI) can then be integrated with CAs for cost-effective access to it. MI can be especially beneficial for parents who often have low motivation because of limited time and resources to eat healthy together with their children.

Social Media Use and Alcohol Consumption: A 10-Year Systematic Review.

Many studies have looked at the relationship between social media and alcohol consumption. There is a need for a comprehensive review that synthesizes the results of past research to systematically understand the relationship between social media use and alcohol consumption. The present systematic literature review synthesizes the findings from global social media and alcohol use studies ( = 206, 204 retained for analysis) between 2009 and 2019.

Strategic communication as planned behavior for science and risk communication: A theory-based approach to studying communicator choice.

This essay argues that we should treat science and risk communicators' choices about tactics, objectives, and goals as behaviors to advance both research and practice. Doing so allows for a discussion about how to use theories about behavior change and trust-building to help foster more strategic communication choices. The essay also seeks to anticipate and respond to potential arguments against using behavior change theories to encourage more strategic communication choices.

Social media multitasking (SMM) and well-being: Existing evidence and future directions.

Despite the prevalence of social media multitasking (SMM), its effects on well-being have received little attention. Of the nine studies that directly examined this topic, six found a negative relationship between SMM and well-being variables, and three found mixed or no effects. We compare the findings with those from five meta-analyses of general media multitasking (GMM) and 15 recent studies on GMM and well-being.

How does home ownership affect migrants' sense of relative deprivation? An investigation based on field theory.

Background: China is continuing to witness rising numbers of migrants (e.g., individuals migrating from rural to urban areas), and alongside this are the social restrictions and institutional barriers migrants face.

Communicating Commitment to Antibiotic Stewardship: an Effective Strategy for Responding to Online Patient Reviews.

Background: Public health officials have worked to address the growing threat of antibiotic resistance. To slow the emergence of antimicrobial-resistant bacteria, it is important to improve patients' understanding of antibiotics and adjust their expectations of them. This study explores strategic antibiotic resistance communication between patients and health care providers in an online review platform.

Reversing the Antibiotic Resistance "Yelp Effect" Through the Use of Emotionally Framed Responses to Negative Reviews of Providers: Questionnaire Study.

Background: The overuse of antibiotics has rapidly made antimicrobial resistance a global public health challenge. There is an emerging trend where providers who perceive that their patients expect antibiotics are more likely to prescribe antibiotics unprompted or upon request. Particularly, health care providers have expressed concern that dissatisfied patients will provide disparaging online reviews, therefore threatening the reputation of the practice.

Sustained effects of the INFORM cluster randomized trial: an observational post-intervention study.

Background: Numerous studies have examined the efficacy and effectiveness of health services interventions. However, much less research is available on the sustainability of study outcomes. The purpose of this study was to assess the lasting benefits of INFORM (Improving Nursing Home Care Through Feedback On perfoRMance data) and associated factors 2.

The mediating role of vaccine hesitancy between maternal engagement with anti- and pro-vaccine social media posts and adolescent HPV-vaccine uptake rates in the US: The perspective of loss aversion in emotion-laden decision circumstances.

While Human Papillomavirus (HPV) is a prominent cause of cervical cancer and mortality among underserved women, HPV vaccine completion rates remain stagnant (54%) among US adolescents. Our objective is to identify how adolescents' mothers' engagement with anti-vaccine versus pro-vaccine social media content is associated with their children's HPV vaccination rates via increased vaccine hesitancy. We employ the notion of loss aversion escalated in an emotion-laden circumstance in consumer behavior literature given that HPV vaccination decisions directly affect children's well-being.