Journal of Health Communication

Article	Citations
Editor’s Note	55
Opioids in Satirical News Shows: Exploring Topics, Sentiments, and Engagement in Last Week Tonight on YouTube	50
An Experimental Test of Pop Music Lyrics Referencing Anxiety on Female College Students’ Audience Involvement and Peer Mental Health Empathy	48
A Year of Child Injury Prevention on Instagram	39
Foreword	37
An Experimental Test of a Generic Messaging Approach for the Canadian 24-Hour Movement Guidelines for Adults	34
Using Theater as a Health Promotion Tool: A Scoping Review	29
What Were the Information Voids? A Qualitative Analysis of Questions Asked by Dear Pandemic Readers between August 2020-August 2021	26
“I Felt Completely Turned off by the Message”: The Effects of Controlling Language, Fear, and Disgust Appeals on Responses to COVID-19 Vaccination Messages	23
Rationale, Procedures, and Response Rates for a Pilot Study to Sample Cancer Survivors for NCI’s Health Information National Trends Survey: HINTS-SEER 2021	22
A Meta-analysis of Media Consumption and Rape Myth Acceptance	21
Predicting Support for COVID-19 Policies with Partisan Media Use and Negative Emotion: Evidence from the U.S. and South Korea	19
A COM-B and Theoretical Domains Framework Mapping of the Barriers and Facilitators to Effective Communication and Help-Seeking Among People With, or Seeking a Diagnosis Of, Endometriosis	19
Divergent Routes of Health Infotainment in Changing Public Health Attitudes: A GPT-2 Analysis of Users' Responses to Health Infotainment	19
Predicting the U.S. Public’s Prosocial Responses during the COVID-19 Pandemic	19
Targeting versus Tailoring Educational Videos for Encouraging Deceased Organ Donor Registration in Black-Owned Barbershops	18
Testing the Feasibility, User Experiences, and Preliminary Effect of Conversation Cards for Adolescents © For Behavior Change and Collaborative Go	16
Opinion Leadership and Sharing Positive and Negative Information About Vaccines on Social Media: A Mixed-Methods Approach	16
Interventions to Mitigate Vaping Misinformation: A Meta-Analysis	15
Characteristics of Adolescents’ and Young Adults’ Exposure to and Engagement with Nicotine and Tobacco Product Content on Social Media	15
Optimizing Public Health Crisis Communication: Insights from Technology-Mediated COVID-19 Messaging in Rural Ghana	15
How Systems Mapping Can Be an Important Health Communication Tool	14
Reconsidering the Effectiveness of Fear Appeals: An Experimental Study of Interactive Fear Messaging to Promote Positive Actions on Climate Change	14
“What Do I Say? How Do I Say it?” Twitter as a Knowledge Dissemination Tool for Mental Health Research	14
How Do Behavioral Framing, Linguistic Certainty, and Target Specification Impact Responses to Vaping Prevention Messages?	14

Disabilities and the Digital Divide: Assessing Web Accessibility, Readability, and Mobility of Popular Health Websites	13
The Impact of Social and Material Resources on Resilience Communication at the Intersection of Race and Gender	13
From Theory to Practice: Mitigating the Harm of Online Harassment in Public Health	12
The Effects of Vaccine Efficacy Information on Vaccination Intentions Through Perceived Response Efficacy and Hope	12
Determining whether Public Communications Campaigns Based on the The Social Norms Approach are a Viable COVID-19 Prevention Strategy for College Campuses	12
Informed Decision-Making About COVID-19 Vaccination – Development and Feasibility of a Decision Support Intervention: A Mixed-Methods Study	12
Shared Decision-Making Experiences of Couples with Inherited Cancer Risk Regarding Family Building	12
A Six-Month Outcome Evaluation of Media Aware Parent, a Parent-Based Media Mediation and Sexual Health Communication Program to Promote Adolescent Sexual Health	12
A Qualitative Content Analysis of Caregiver Reports of Conversations with Their Children about Vaccinations	12
Identifying Provider-Level Barriers to Provision of PrEP Services for Cisgender Women: Application of the Disclosure Decision-Making Model	12
From Information Seeking and Scanning to the Practice of Healthy Habits: A Longitudinal Test of the Integrative Model of Behavioral Prediction in the Context of Fruit and Vegetable Consumption	11
The Effects of Behaviorally Informed Messages on COVID-19 Vaccination Intentions and Behavior: Evidence from Randomized Survey Experiments in South Africa	11
Scaling the Idea of Opinion Leadership to Address Health Misinformation: The Case for “Health Communication AI”	11
A Narrative Persuasion Approach to Promoting COVID-19- Related Policy Support	11
Pornography and Women’s Experience of Mixed-Gender Sexual Choking/Strangulation: Eroticization Mediates, Perceived Similarity Moderates	10
Social Media Users’ Engagement with Fear Appeal Elements in Government’s Health Crisis Communication via State-Owned Media	10
Communicating without a Shared Language: A Qualitative Study of Language Barriers in Language-Discordant Cancer Communication	10
Community and Opinion Leadership Effects on Vaping Discourse: A Network Analysis of Online Reddit Threads	10
The Effects of Patient-Centered Communication on Emotional Health: Examining the Roles of Self-Efficacy, Information Seeking Frustration, and Social Media Use	10
Advancing Health communication, a Call for the Future: 30 Years of the Journal of Health Communication: International Perspectives	10
Moral Foundations Predict COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy: Evidence from a National Survey of Black Americans	10
Pro- and Anti-Tax Framing in News Articles About California Sugar-Sweetened Beverage Tax Campaigns from 2014-2018	10
Misfluencers, the Human Agents Behind AI-Driven Infodemics	10
The Anatomy of Deception: Conspiracy Theories, Distrust, and Public Health	9
Why People Stayed Home During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Implications for Health Communication Across Four Countries	9
Cancer and COVID-19 Vaccines on Twitter:The Voice and Vaccine Attitude of Cancer Community	9
mHealth Interventions for Contraceptive Behavior Change in the United States: A Systematic Review	9
Exploring Stigma and Black Mental Health on Twitter	9
Quitting on TikTok: Effects of Message Themes, Frames, and Sources on Engagement with Vaping Cessation Videos	9
Key Conversations and Trusted Information Among Hesitant Adopters of the COVID-19 Vaccine	8
Examining the Effects of Social Media Warning Labels on Perceived Credibility and Intent to Engage with Health Misinformation: The Moderating Role of Vaccine Hesitancy	8
Why Health Institutions Must Learn from Social Media Influencers. A Paradigm Shift in Health Communication	8
Conservative Media Use and Childhood COVID-19 Vaccine Information: A Test of the Contradictory Health Information Processing Model	8
“A Friendly Conversation.” Developing an eHealth Intervention to Increase COVID-19 Testing and Vaccination Literacy Among Women with Criminal and Legal System Involvement	8
Outcomes of Information Seeking and Avoidance Behaviors: Insights from a German Longitudinal Study	8
The Association Between the We Can Do This Campaign and Vaccination Beliefs in the United States, January 2021–March 2022	8
Digital Educational Strategies to Teach Skin Self-examination to Individuals at Risk for Skin Cancer	8
Precious Information: Getting Interpretable, Actionable Health Communications Data	8
Health Controversies: Long-Term Disagreement Management Challenges	8
Understanding CDC’s Vaccine Communication during the COVID-19 Pandemic and Its Effectiveness in Promoting Positive Attitudes toward the COVID-19 Vaccine	8
What Did We Learn About Pandemic Communication?	8
An Investigation into Memorable Messages about COVID-19	7
Engaging the Next Generation in Communication to Address Information Quality	7
The Importance of Assessing Failure, Unexpected Results, and Lessons Learned for Advancing Health Communication Science	7
Countering Narrative Misinformation: Investigating the Effects of Narrative Corrections and Character Trust on Story-Related Knowledge of HPV	7
Quantitatively Identifying Messaging Topics to Encourage West Virginia nurses’ COVID-19 Vaccination	7
Interventions to Mitigate COVID-19 Misinformation: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis	7
Information Service “My Cancer Navigator” to Support Shared Decision-Making: An Online Survey Among Patients with Cancer and Their Caregivers	7
Fear in Media Headlines Increases Public Risk Perceptions but Decreases Preventive Behaviors: A Multi-Country Study During the COVID-19 Pandemic	7
Health Communication in an Era of Disinformation: Perceived Source Credibility Among Transgender and Gender Diverse Individuals	7

Do Storytelling and Processing Motivation Matter? Comparing Narratives and Exemplars in Promoting Hepatitis C Screening among College Students	7
Critical Dynamics in Black and Latino Parents’ Perceptions of Childhood COVID-19 Vaccination: How the “Middle” Moves	6
Effects of Exposure to an Entertainment-Based Genetic Testing Narrative on Genetic Testing Knowledge, Attitudes and Counseling Discussion Intentions	6
For Myself or for Others? The Influence of Family Communication Patterns on Family Health History Communication and Online Health Information Seeking	6
The lived experience in one of the hardest hit communities in New York City (Harlem), and one of the least vaccinated for COVID-19. Some Lessons Learned.	6
Interpersonal Communication Strategies to Increase Iron-Folic Acid Supplement Consumption: Reduction in Anemia Through Normative Innovations (RANI) Project	6
I’m Lovin’ It: How Fast Food Advertising Influences Meat-Eating Preferences	6
Dying in Silence: Black Maternal Mortality in the United States	6
A Systems Map of the Challenges of Climate Communication	6
Revisiting the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services COVID-19 Public Education Media Campaign: Successes and New Lessons Learned	6
Climate Communication, Public Health, and Social Media: Examining the Role of Health Agencies in Addressing the Impacts of Climate Change on Human Health	6
The Stigma Toward Dementia on Twitter: A Sentiment Analysis of Dutch Language Tweets	6
Changing the Script: Intergenerational Communication about Sexual and Reproductive Health in Niamey, Niger	6
Examining the Effects of Celebrity (Vs. Noncelebrity) Narratives on Opioid Addiction Prevention: Identification, Transportation, and the Moderating Role of Personal Relevance	6
Does Climate Change Affect Health? Beliefs from the Health Information National Trends Survey	6
Finding My Way: Black Doulas’ Communication with Other Birthing Care Providers in an Interprofessional Work Environment	6
Early COVID-19 Home-Based Care Knowledge and Efficacies: Comparing Ghanaian and US Respondents	6
Bringing Artificial Intelligence (AI) into Health Information Seeking Behavior: A Study of AI and Information Seeking Research	6
Infographics and the Elaboration Likelihood Model (ELM): Differences between Visual and Textual Health Messages	5
Telehealth Talk on Reddit: Understanding How Language Use About Telemedicine Evolved Throughout the COVID-19 Pandemic	5
Interactive Health Messages Work Better for Those Who Feel Less in Control: The Role of External Health Locus of Control and Risk Perception	5
“It Encourages Family Discussion”: A Mixed-Methods Examination of the This Is Us Alzheimer’s Disease & Caregiving Storyline	5
Understanding Breast Cancer Images in Art History as a Form of Health Communication	5
Disenfranchising Talk Mediates the Relationship Between Social Determinants of Health and Wellbeing Outcomes for Women of Color Patients with Autoimmune Disease	5
Communicating Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances (PFAS) Contamination to the Public Through Personal Relevance	5
(De)Stigmatizing Depression on Social Media: The Role of Responsibility Frames	5
The Impact of Emotion and Government Trust on Individuals’ Risk Information Seeking and Avoidance during the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Cross-country Comparison	5
Seeing “The Bigger Picture:” Impact of an Arts-Focused Type 2 Diabetes Education Program in High Schools	5
Evaluation of the Confiance Totale Campaign in Togo: Associations Between Campaign Exposure and Family Planning Outcomes of Interest	5
Using the “Media as Mediator” Approach to Understand the Influence of Communication Channel Trust on COVID-19 Protective Behaviors: England, January 2022	5
Infodemic Management for Social and Behavior Change: Youth Mobilization for Combating Disinformation During COVID-19	4
Testing Narrative Persuasion of a Culturally Grounded, School-Based “Dale Se REAL” Entertainment-Education Intervention and Peer Communication on Nicaraguan Adolescent Substance Use	4
Media Influence on Bystander Intervention for Health Protective Norms: The Integrative Model of Behavioral Prediction Perspective	4
Yet Again Conversations Matter: The Importance of Interpersonal Discussions, Educational Campaigns, and Advertising on Cannabis-Related Risk Perceptions, Attitudes, and Intentions in At-Risk Young Adu	4
COVID-19 Vaccine-related Information Seeking and Scanning: A Test of Mediators between Information Acquisition and Vaccination Intention among Unvaccinated Black Americans	4
US Nationwide Multi-City Media Coverage of COVID-19 Responses: Community Structure Theory, Belief System, and a “Violated Way of Life”	4
A Systematic Review of Responsibility Frames and Their Effects in the Health Context	4
How Does Physician (Non)accommodation Affect Patient Behavioral Intention? Using a Web-Based Experiment to Examine Indirect Effects of Language Type on Behavioral Intention Through Goal Inferences and	4
Impact of Locus of Control on Patient–Provider Communication: A Systematic Review	4
Addressing the Health Literacy Needs and Experiences of Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Populations in Australia during COVID-19: A Research Embedded Participatory Approach	4
Creating the HHS COVID-19 Public Education Media Campaign: Applying Systems Change Learnings	4
The Relationship Between Receptivity, Targeted Beliefs, and Tobacco Use	4
Native Americans’ Responses to Obesity Attributions and Message Sources in an Obesity Prevention Campaign	4
Narratives and Mental Illness: Understanding the Factors That Impact Stigmatizing Attitudes and Behavioral Intentions	4
Development of Podcasts in a Hospital Setting: A User-Centered Approach	4
Solving a Controversial Health Problem May Be Tricky: Examining Social Media News Use, Gender, Fear, and Information Behaviors in HPV Prevention	4
The Authorization of the First COVID-19 Vaccines Changed the Level and Nature of Intend to Get Vaccinated	4
Trust in COVID-19 Information from Different Media Types and Its Association with Preventive Measures Adoption in the U.S.	4
Dynamic Fear in Fear Appeals: Applying Fear Appeals to Environmental Communication in China	4
Co-Designing a Mobile-Based Game to Improve Misinformation Resistance and Vaccine Knowledge in Uganda, Kenya, and Rwanda	4
Leveraging Emotion for Behavior Change: Lessons from Implementation of the “Emo-Demo” Behavior Change Technique in Rural Mozambique	4
Characterizing the Communication Networks of Spanish- and English-Speaking Latinx Sexual Minority Men and Their Roles in Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis Uptake	4
The dynamics of trust and communication in COVID-19 vaccine decision making: A qualitative inquiry	4
Understanding COVID-19 Vaccine Knowledge, Beliefs, and Trusted Information Sources Among Black Women in Kentucky: Implications for Vaccine Uptake	4
Communication Is Not a Virus: COVID-19 Vaccine-Critical Activity on Facebook and Implications for the ‘Infodemic’ Concept	4
To Tailor or Not to Tailor: An Investigation of Narrative Tailoring for Health Communication	4
“You Know Nothing about How Alcohol Might Lead to Cancer!” Effects of Threatening and Hedging Languages on Intentions to Reduce and Stop Drinking	4
Comparison of Current Attitudes Toward COVID-19 Vaccination in New York City and the US Nationally	4
Unraveling the Impact of Moral Framings within Media Coverage to Promote the (De)stigmatization of Depression on Social Media	4
How Trust in Cancer Information Has Changed in the Era of COVID-19: Patterns by Race and Ethnicity	4
Psychological Reactance Theory and COVID-19 Vaccine Mandates: The Roles of Threat Magnitude and Direction of Threat	3
Identifying Reference Groups in Social Norms Campaigns Intended to Promote College Students’ Mental Health Help-Seeking in South Korea	3
Newspaper Representation of Mandatory Vaccination Against COVID-19 for Healthcare Workers in England: A Qualitative Framing Analysis	3
Wild to Mild : CDC’s Influenza Vaccination Campaign Highlights Value of Messaging Around Attenuation of Illness	3
Lessons Learned from Developing Tailored Community Communication Campaigns in the HEALing Communities Study	3
Some Slice of Climate Anxiety … Is Good: A Cross-Sectional Survey Exploring the Relationship Between College Students Media Exposure and Perceptions About Climate Change	3
Mapping Perceptual Differences to Understand COVID-19 Beliefs in Those with Vaccine Hesitancy	3
Sophocles’Philoctetesand Moral Injury in the COVID-19 Pandemic	3
Implementing Interventions to Improve Health Communication Equity for First Nations People: Guidance from a Rapid Realist Review	3
Message Strategies and Viewer Responses: Content Analysis of HPV Vaccination Videos on YouTube	3
How Do Gain-Loss Frames and Cultural Arguments Persuade? Designing Effective Messages to Weaken College Students’ Binge-Drinking Intentions	3
How Attributes of Place Threaten Community Trust in the American South: Opportunities for Improving Pandemic-Related Communication	3
Correction	3
Tech, Sex, and E-cigarettes: The Gendering of Vape Promotion on Instagram	3
When ChatGPT Speaks About Health: Examining Perceptions of Warmth and Competence Toward AI as a Health Information Source	3
Examining the Theory of Motivated Information Management (TMIM) in the COVID-19 Pandemic	3
Evaluation of the “We Can Do This” Campaign Paid Media and COVID-19 Vaccination Uptake, United States, December 2020–January 2022	3
Testing Likely Response to Behavioral Nudges and Shoves to Promote COVID-19 Vaccine Uptake Amongst Segments of the Unvaccinated Population of South Africa	3
Culturally Tailored and Community-Based Social Media Intervention to Promote Organ Donation Awareness among Asian Americans: “Heart of Gold”	3
The Effects of Animations and Multimedia Messages on Public Engagement in Precision Medicine: Assessment of Moderation and Mediation	3

Tweeted, Trolled, Twisted: Battling for Narrative Control in E-Cigarette Use Prevention Campaigns (2014–2020)	3
Effects of Engagement with a Social Media Campaign for Mothers to Prevent Indoor Tanning by Teens in a Randomized Trial	3
Evaluation of HPV Vaccine: Same Way, Same DayTM: A Pilot Study	3
Exploring the Association Between Suicide Prevention Public Service Announcements and User Comments on YouTube: A Computational Text Analysis Approach	3
Understanding mHealth Adoption and Lifestyle Improvement: An Empirical Test of the Antecedents and Mediating Mechanisms	3
Coping with Non-COVID-19 Health Problems Through Communicative Action in Cyberspace	3
Making Germs Visible – Assessing the Impact of a School-Based, Low-Cost Intervention on Hand Hygiene Knowledge, Attitude and Practice of Children in Rural India	3
PTSD Coverage in the New York Times : Implications for the State of Mental Health in the U.S	3
Use of Online Medical Records to Support Medical Decision Making: A Cross-Sectional Study of US Adults	3
The “Whole-Of-Society” Approach for Misinformation Correction: How Expert Didactic TikTok Videos Motivate Citizen Fact-Checking and Vaccine Promotion	3
Explanations for Failure to Detect Effects of a Prescription Medication Disposal Intervention for Rural Adults	2
Exploring the Dunning-Kruger Effect in Health Communication: How Perceived Food and Media Literacy and Actual Knowledge Drift Apart When Evaluating Misleading Food Advertising	2
A Mobile Health Information Behavior Model: Theoretical Development and Mixed-Method Testing in the Context of Mobile Apps on Child Poisoning Prevention	2
Watching Our Language	2
Measuring Health Professionals’ Skills and Self-Efficacy for Communicating with Individuals with Disabilities: Instrument Development and Validation	2
Shot Talk: Development and Pilot Test of a Theory of Planned Behavior Campaign to Combat College Student COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy	2
SBCC Training in Francophone West Africa: Overview, Lessons Learned, Challenges and Future Directions	2
Does Narrative Quality Matter During Implementation of a School-Based Prevention Intervention? A Test of Narrative Engagement Theory	2
Minoritized Sexual Identity and Perceived Effectiveness of Instagram Public Health Messaging about E-cigarettes	2
Communicating COVID-19 Risk on Instagram: A Content Analysis of Official Public Health Messaging During the First Year of the Pandemic	2
Development and Validation of Korean ‘COVID-blues’ Social Syndrome Scale	2
Exposure to “Vaccination Selfies” Relate to Readers’ Vaccination Intention: The Moderating Role of Partisan Media Use and the Mediating Role of Affective Responses	2
Transportation into an Entertainment Narrative about the MMR Vaccine: An Investigation of Self-Referencing and Issue-Related Thoughts in Narrative Persuasion	2
Examining the Impact of a Culture-Centric Narrative on COVID-19 Vaccines and Mental Wellness Among Latinos in the Midwest	2
Spit, Disgust, and Parasite Stress Theory: A Message Experiment	2
Trust in Mass Media as Sources of Cancer Information: Findings from a Nationally Representative Cross-Sectional Survey in Japan	2
The Influence of Social Eating Norms on Motivational Responses When Processing Fast Food Advertisements	2
Vaccine Confidence in NYC: Thematic Analysis of Community Stories	2
The Politicization of Climate Science: Media Consumption, Perceptions of Science and Scientists, and Support for Policy	2
The Effects of Numerical Evidence and Message Framing in Communicating Vaccine Efficacy	2
Can Altruistic Emotions Promote Vaccine Advocacy? Examining the Use of Empathy and Elevation in Vaccine Messages	2
Youth and Young Adult-targeted E-cigarette Warnings and Advertising Messages: An Experiment with Young Adults in the US	2
The Effects of the Culturally Tailored Narratives on COVID-19 Vaccine Confidence Among Hispanics: A Randomized Online Experiment	2
Issue Involvement Moderates the Effect of Gain- and Loss-Framed Messages on Mothers’ Intentions to Give 5 Portions of Fruits and Vegetables to Their Children Every Day	2
The Art and Heart of a Community: Lamar Dodd’s The Heart Series in LaGrange, Georgia	2
Healthcare Providers’ Resilience Communication: A New Type of Patient-Centered Communication	2
PFAS Contamination: Pathway from Communication to Behavioral Outcomes	2
Using a Social Network Approach to Characterize Oral Health Behavior Social Support Among Mexican-Origin Young Adults	2
COVID-19 in Portugal: A Pandemic Redesigned by the Media	2
Behavioral Beliefs Predict Recommended Behaviors, Especially When Trust in Public Health Sources is Low: Evidence from a Longitudinal Study of Three COVID-19 Prevention Behaviors Among U.S. Adults	2
Bridging Culture and Language: Encouraging Bilingual/Multicultural Individuals to Act as Information Navigators for Their Loved-Ones and Communities during the COVID-19 Pandemic	2
Meme Exposure on Social Media Associated with More Positive E-Cigarette Perceptions and Greater Usage Among Youth	2
Time to Treat the Climate and Nature Crisis as One Indivisible Global Health Emergency	2
Comparison of COVID-19 Information Seeking, Trust of Information Sources, and Protective Behaviors in China and the US	2
Recalled Exposure to COVID-19 Public Education Campaign Advertisements Predicts COVID-19 Vaccine Confidence	2
Gender-Specific Pictorial Health Warnings: Moderation Effects of the Threat Level and Gender	2
Show Me a Photo of the Character: Exploring the Interaction between Text and Visuals in Narrative Persuasion	2
Normalizing Anxiety on Social Media Increases Self-Diagnosis of Anxiety: The Mediating Effect of Identification (But Not Stigma)	2