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	35
Foreword	29
Tweaking the Messages and Approaching the Glass Box: Using AI Chatbots to Promote Help-Seeking for Depressive Symptoms	29
Using Theater as a Health Promotion Tool: A Scoping Review	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	25
Predicting Support for COVID-19 Policies with Partisan Media Use and Negative Emotion: Evidence from the U.S. and South Korea	23
Sex Education, Public Opinion, and Pornography: Replication and Experiment	21
What Were the Information Voids? A Qualitative Analysis of Questions Asked by Dear Pandemic Readers between August 2020-August 2021	21
Rationale, Procedures, and Response Rates for a Pilot Study to Sample Cancer Survivors for NCI’s Health Information National Trends Survey: HINTS-SEER 2021	21
Promotion – The 4th P of Social Marketing: A Scoping Review of Efforts from 2010–2022	20
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	20
Testing the Feasibility, User Experiences, and Preliminary Effect of Conversation Cards for Adolescents © For Behavior Change and Collaborative Go	19
Opinion Leadership and Sharing Positive and Negative Information About Vaccines on Social Media: A Mixed-Methods Approach	19
Reconsidering the Effectiveness of Fear Appeals: An Experimental Study of Interactive Fear Messaging to Promote Positive Actions on Climate Change	17
“What Do I Say? How Do I Say it?” Twitter as a Knowledge Dissemination Tool for Mental Health Research	17
Optimizing Public Health Crisis Communication: Insights from Technology-Mediated COVID-19 Messaging in Rural Ghana	17
The Impact of Social and Material Resources on Resilience Communication at the Intersection of Race and Gender	16
How Systems Mapping Can Be an Important Health Communication Tool	16
How Do Behavioral Framing, Linguistic Certainty, and Target Specification Impact Responses to Vaping Prevention Messages?	16
Examining Organ Donor Gratitude Letters as a Novel Approach to Boost Organ Donor Registrations in South Korea	16
Health Communication: Creating Tangible Impact in a Tumultuous World: Society for Health Communication Annual National Summit	16
Safeguarding Quality in Health and Medical Science Information Today	15
Characteristics of Adolescents’ and Young Adults’ Exposure to and Engagement with Nicotine and Tobacco Product Content on Social Media	15
The Effects of Behaviorally Informed Messages on COVID-19 Vaccination Intentions and Behavior: Evidence from Randomized Survey Experiments in South Africa	15

Divergent Routes of Health Infotainment in Changing Public Health Attitudes: A GPT-2 Analysis of Users' Responses to Health Infotainment	15
From Theory to Practice: Mitigating the Harm of Online Harassment in Public Health	15
The Effects of Vaccine Efficacy Information on Vaccination Intentions Through Perceived Response Efficacy and Hope	14
A Six-Month Outcome Evaluation of Media Aware Parent, a Parent-Based Media Mediation and Sexual Health Communication Program to Promote Adolescent Sexual Health	14
Shared Decision-Making Experiences of Couples with Inherited Cancer Risk Regarding Family Building	14
Does Misinformation Have Spillover Effects on Unrelated Health Behaviors? Promising Null Results from a Longitudinal Study of U.S. Adults	14
Informed Decision-Making About COVID-19 Vaccination – Development and Feasibility of a Decision Support Intervention: A Mixed-Methods Study	14
Scaling the Idea of Opinion Leadership to Address Health Misinformation: The Case for “Health Communication AI”	13
Moral Foundations Predict COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy: Evidence from a National Survey of Black Americans	13
Making High-Quality Health Information More Visible – A Proposal for a Set of Criteria to Assess Information Provider Methods	13
Identifying Provider-Level Barriers to Provision of PrEP Services for Cisgender Women: Application of the Disclosure Decision-Making Model	13
A Narrative Persuasion Approach to Promoting COVID-19- Related Policy Support	13
A Qualitative Content Analysis of Caregiver Reports of Conversations with Their Children about Vaccinations	13
Community and Opinion Leadership Effects on Vaping Discourse: A Network Analysis of Online Reddit Threads	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
Social Media Users’ Engagement with Fear Appeal Elements in Government’s Health Crisis Communication via State-Owned Media	11
Misfluencers, the Human Agents Behind AI-Driven Infodemics	11
The Effects of Patient-Centered Communication on Emotional Health: Examining the Roles of Self-Efficacy, Information Seeking Frustration, and Social Media Use	11
Culturally Responsive Community Mental Health: Successes and Lessons from a Community Mental Health Organization	10
Pro- and Anti-Tax Framing in News Articles About California Sugar-Sweetened Beverage Tax Campaigns from 2014-2018	10
Cancer and COVID-19 Vaccines on Twitter:The Voice and Vaccine Attitude of Cancer Community	10
Section Editor’s Note: AI, Health, and Digital Spaces — Charting a New Agenda for Health Communication	9
Outcomes of Information Seeking and Avoidance Behaviors: Insights from a German Longitudinal Study	9
Precious Information: Getting Interpretable, Actionable Health Communications Data	9
Advancing Health Communication, a Call for the Future: 30 Years of the Journal of Health Communication: International Perspectives	9
Shared Values, Shared Responsibility, and Overwhelmingly Positive: Investigating a Targeted COVID-19 Public Health Messaging Approach Using Generative Artificial Intelligence	9
“A Friendly Conversation.” Developing an eHealth Intervention to Increase COVID-19 Testing and Vaccination Literacy Among Women with Criminal and Legal System Involvement	9
Quitting on TikTok: Effects of Message Themes, Frames, and Sources on Engagement with Vaping Cessation Videos	9
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
Social Position and Opioid Crisis Information: Patterns of Active Seeking and Passive Exposure Among US Adults	9
Exploring Stigma and Black Mental Health on Twitter	9
Key Conversations and Trusted Information Among Hesitant Adopters of the COVID-19 Vaccine	9
Communicating without a Shared Language: A Qualitative Study of Language Barriers in Language-Discordant Cancer Communication	9
Digital Educational Strategies to Teach Skin Self-examination to Individuals at Risk for Skin Cancer	8
The Association Between the We Can Do This Campaign and Vaccination Beliefs in the United States, January 2021–March 2022	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
What Did We Learn About Pandemic Communication?	8
An Investigation into Memorable Messages about COVID-19	8
Quantitatively Identifying Messaging Topics to Encourage West Virginia nurses’ COVID-19 Vaccination	8
Health Controversies: Long-Term Disagreement Management Challenges	8
Countering Narrative Misinformation: Investigating the Effects of Narrative Corrections and Character Trust on Story-Related Knowledge of HPV	8
Understanding CDC’s Vaccine Communication during the COVID-19 Pandemic and Its Effectiveness in Promoting Positive Attitudes toward the COVID-19 Vaccine	8
Development and Pilot Test of an Edutainment-Based Curriculum for Addressing Misinformation in the Healthcare Setting	8
Fear in Media Headlines Increases Public Risk Perceptions but Decreases Preventive Behaviors: A Multi-Country Study During the COVID-19 Pandemic	8
The Importance of Assessing Failure, Unexpected Results, and Lessons Learned for Advancing Health Communication Science	7
Clinical AI Applications in the Context of Cancer: Explaining Openness to Information and Consent to Use Through Risk Perceptions and Efficacy Beliefs	7
Early COVID-19 Home-Based Care Knowledge and Efficacies: Comparing Ghanaian and US Respondents	7
Do Storytelling and Processing Motivation Matter? Comparing Narratives and Exemplars in Promoting Hepatitis C Screening among College Students	7
Interpersonal Communication Strategies to Increase Iron-Folic Acid Supplement Consumption: Reduction in Anemia Through Normative Innovations (RANI) Project	7

Information Service “My Cancer Navigator” to Support Shared Decision-Making: An Online Survey Among Patients with Cancer and Their Caregivers	7
Climate Communication, Public Health, and Social Media: Examining the Role of Health Agencies in Addressing the Impacts of Climate Change on Human Health	7
Dying in Silence: Black Maternal Mortality in the United States	7
Why Health Institutions Must Learn from Social Media Influencers. A Paradigm Shift in Health Communication	7
Engaging the Next Generation in Communication to Address Information Quality	7
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.	7
Health Communication in an Era of Disinformation: Perceived Source Credibility Among Transgender and Gender Diverse Individuals	7
Does Climate Change Affect Health? Beliefs from the Health Information National Trends Survey	6
A Systems Map of the Challenges of Climate Communication	6
Changing the Script: Intergenerational Communication about Sexual and Reproductive Health in Niamey, Niger	6
Bringing Artificial Intelligence (AI) into Health Information Seeking Behavior: A Study of AI and Information Seeking Research	6
For Myself or for Others? The Influence of Family Communication Patterns on Family Health History Communication and Online Health Information Seeking	6
The Stigma Toward Dementia on Twitter: A Sentiment Analysis of Dutch Language Tweets	6
Evaluation of the Confiance Totale Campaign in Togo: Associations Between Campaign Exposure and Family Planning Outcomes of Interest	6
Examining the Effects of Celebrity (Vs. Noncelebrity) Narratives on Opioid Addiction Prevention: Identification, Transportation, and the Moderating Role of Personal Relevance	6
Using the “Media as Mediator” Approach to Understand the Influence of Communication Channel Trust on COVID-19 Protective Behaviors: England, January 2022	6
Effects of Exposure to an Entertainment-Based Genetic Testing Narrative on Genetic Testing Knowledge, Attitudes and Counseling Discussion Intentions	6
Critical Dynamics in Black and Latino Parents’ Perceptions of Childhood COVID-19 Vaccination: How the “Middle” Moves	6
“It Encourages Family Discussion”: A Mixed-Methods Examination of the This Is Us Alzheimer’s Disease & Caregiving Storyline	6
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	6
Infographics and the Elaboration Likelihood Model (ELM): Differences between Visual and Textual Health Messages	6
Finding My Way: Black Doulas’ Communication with Other Birthing Care Providers in an Interprofessional Work Environment	6
Revisiting the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services COVID-19 Public Education Media Campaign: Successes and New Lessons Learned	6
Media Influence on Bystander Intervention for Health Protective Norms: The Integrative Model of Behavioral Prediction Perspective	5
(De)Stigmatizing Depression on Social Media: The Role of Responsibility Frames	5
Development of Podcasts in a Hospital Setting: A User-Centered Approach	5
Telehealth Talk on Reddit: Understanding How Language Use About Telemedicine Evolved Throughout the COVID-19 Pandemic	5
Narratives and Mental Illness: Understanding the Factors That Impact Stigmatizing Attitudes and Behavioral Intentions	5
Artificial Intelligence in Vaccine Communication	5
US Nationwide Multi-City Media Coverage of COVID-19 Responses: Community Structure Theory, Belief System, and a “Violated Way of Life”	5
The Relationship Between Receptivity, Targeted Beliefs, and Tobacco Use	5
COVID-19 Vaccine-related Information Seeking and Scanning: A Test of Mediators between Information Acquisition and Vaccination Intention among Unvaccinated Black Americans	5
How Defense and Accuracy Motives Influence Health Information Seeking and Avoidance: A Dual-Motive Model Perspective	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
Understanding Breast Cancer Images in Art History as a Form of Health Communication	5
Communicating Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances (PFAS) Contamination to the Public Through Personal Relevance	5
Understanding COVID-19 Vaccine Knowledge, Beliefs, and Trusted Information Sources Among Black Women in Kentucky: Implications for Vaccine Uptake	5
The Authorization of the First COVID-19 Vaccines Changed the Level and Nature of Intend to Get Vaccinated	5
Tech, Sex, and E-cigarettes: The Gendering of Vape Promotion on Instagram	5
Co-Designing a Mobile-Based Game to Improve Misinformation Resistance and Vaccine Knowledge in Uganda, Kenya, and Rwanda	5
Characterizing the Communication Networks of Spanish- and English-Speaking Latinx Sexual Minority Men and Their Roles in Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis Uptake	5
Infodemic Management for Social and Behavior Change: Youth Mobilization for Combating Disinformation During COVID-19	5
Disenfranchising Talk Mediates the Relationship Between Social Determinants of Health and Wellbeing Outcomes for Women of Color Patients with Autoimmune Disease	5
Native Americans’ Responses to Obesity Attributions and Message Sources in an Obesity Prevention Campaign	5
Communication Is Not a Virus: COVID-19 Vaccine-Critical Activity on Facebook and Implications for the ‘Infodemic’ Concept	5
Trust in COVID-19 Information from Different Media Types and Its Association with Preventive Measures Adoption in the U.S.	5
Comparison of Current Attitudes Toward COVID-19 Vaccination in New York City and the US Nationally	5
How Trust in Cancer Information Has Changed in the Era of COVID-19: Patterns by Race and Ethnicity	5
Leveraging Emotion for Behavior Change: Lessons from Implementation of the “Emo-Demo” Behavior Change Technique in Rural Mozambique	5
Effects of Engagement with a Social Media Campaign for Mothers to Prevent Indoor Tanning by Teens in a Randomized Trial	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
Impact of Locus of Control on Patient–Provider Communication: A Systematic Review	4
Unraveling the Impact of Moral Framings within Media Coverage to Promote the (De)stigmatization of Depression on Social Media	4
Combating the Plague of Health Misinformation in Memes: Exploring the Influence of Transmission and Ritual Vaccine Messaging Using the Six-Segment Message Strategy Wheel	4
Psychological Reactance Theory and COVID-19 Vaccine Mandates: The Roles of Threat Magnitude and Direction of Threat	4
Influencing the Influencers: Effects of an In-Person Summit on Tiktok Creators’ Mental Health Communication Habits and Beliefs	4
Tweeted, Trolled, Twisted: Battling for Narrative Control in E-Cigarette Use Prevention Campaigns (2014–2020)	4
Some Slice of Climate Anxiety … Is Good: A Cross-Sectional Survey Exploring the Relationship Between College Students Media Exposure and Perceptions About Climate Change	4
How Attributes of Place Threaten Community Trust in the American South: Opportunities for Improving Pandemic-Related Communication	4
Solving a Controversial Health Problem May Be Tricky: Examining Social Media News Use, Gender, Fear, and Information Behaviors in HPV Prevention	4
Dynamic Fear in Fear Appeals: Applying Fear Appeals to Environmental Communication in China	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
Correction	4
Conditional Effect of Need for Affect and Perceived Prior Knowledge in Processing HPV Messages	4
Journal of Health Communication: 2025 Year in Review	4
Don’t Call Them “Unclean” Or “Unkempt”: Analyzing the Harmful Direct and Indirect Effects of Opioid Stigma Marks on Stigmatizing Attitudes and Behavioral Intentions	4
The Effects of Animations and Multimedia Messages on Public Engagement in Precision Medicine: Assessment of Moderation and Mediation	4
When ChatGPT Speaks About Health: Examining Perceptions of Warmth and Competence Toward AI as a Health Information Source	4
Wild to Mild : CDC’s Influenza Vaccination Campaign Highlights Value of Messaging Around Attenuation of Illness	4
Exploring the Association Between Suicide Prevention Public Service Announcements and User Comments on YouTube: A Computational Text Analysis Approach	4
Identifying Reference Groups in Social Norms Campaigns Intended to Promote College Students’ Mental Health Help-Seeking in South Korea	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
How Do Gain-Loss Frames and Cultural Arguments Persuade? Designing Effective Messages to Weaken College Students’ Binge-Drinking Intentions	4
A Machine Learning Approach to Analyzing Main Topics and Sentiments in YouTube’s Portrayal of HIV/AIDS in China	4
Coping with Non-COVID-19 Health Problems Through Communicative Action in Cyberspace	4
Newspaper Representation of Mandatory Vaccination Against COVID-19 for Healthcare Workers in England: A Qualitative Framing Analysis	4
A Mobile Health Information Behavior Model: Theoretical Development and Mixed-Method Testing in the Context of Mobile Apps on Child Poisoning Prevention	3
Communicating COVID-19 Risk on Instagram: A Content Analysis of Official Public Health Messaging During the First Year of the Pandemic	3
Examining the Theory of Motivated Information Management (TMIM) in the COVID-19 Pandemic	3
Culturally Tailored and Community-Based Social Media Intervention to Promote Organ Donation Awareness among Asian Americans: “Heart of Gold”	3

Examining the Impact of a Culture-Centric Narrative on COVID-19 Vaccines and Mental Wellness Among Latinos in the Midwest	3
Trust in Mass Media as Sources of Cancer Information: Findings from a Nationally Representative Cross-Sectional Survey in Japan	3
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	3
Exploring the Dunning-Kruger Effect in Health Communication: How Perceived Food and Media Literacy and Actual Knowledge Drift Apart When Evaluating Misleading Food Advertising	3
Who Shapes the Future of Health Communication? Networks, Silos, and New Imperatives in the Digital Age	3
Watching Our Language	3
Using a Social Network Approach to Characterize Oral Health Behavior Social Support Among Mexican-Origin Young Adults	3
Understanding mHealth Adoption and Lifestyle Improvement: An Empirical Test of the Antecedents and Mediating Mechanisms	3
Implementing Interventions to Improve Health Communication Equity for First Nations People: Guidance from a Rapid Realist Review	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
COVID-19 in Portugal: A Pandemic Redesigned by the Media	3
The Effects of the Culturally Tailored Narratives on COVID-19 Vaccine Confidence Among Hispanics: A Randomized Online Experiment	3
PTSD Coverage in the New York Times : Implications for the State of Mental Health in the U.S	3
Normalizing Anxiety on Social Media Increases Self-Diagnosis of Anxiety: The Mediating Effect of Identification (But Not Stigma)	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
PFAS Contamination: Pathway from Communication to Behavioral Outcomes	3
Bridging Culture and Language: Encouraging Bilingual/Multicultural Individuals to Act as Information Navigators for Their Loved-Ones and Communities during 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
The “Whole-Of-Society” Approach for Misinformation Correction: How Expert Didactic TikTok Videos Motivate Citizen Fact-Checking and Vaccine Promotion	3
Lessons Learned from Developing Tailored Community Communication Campaigns in the HEALing Communities Study	3
Explanations for Failure to Detect Effects of a Prescription Medication Disposal Intervention for Rural Adults	3
The Effects of Numerical Evidence and Message Framing in Communicating Vaccine Efficacy	3
Vaccine Confidence in NYC: Thematic Analysis of Community Stories	3
Spit, Disgust, and Parasite Stress Theory: A Message Experiment	3
The Relationships Between Adverse Childhood Experiences, Patient-Centered Communication, and Care-Seeking Intention	3