Journal of Health Communication

Article	Citations
Editor’s Note	65
Opioids in Satirical News Shows: Exploring Topics, Sentiments, and Engagement in Last Week Tonight on YouTube	40
Tweaking the Messages and Approaching the Glass Box: Using AI Chatbots to Promote Help-Seeking for Depressive Symptoms	33
Foreword	32
Using Theater as a Health Promotion Tool: A Scoping Review	31
What Drives Users’ Intention to Discern AI-Generated Health Misinformation? Evidence from a Scenario-Based Experiment and SEM-ANN Analysis	26
Predicting Support for COVID-19 Policies with Partisan Media Use and Negative Emotion: Evidence from the U.S. and South Korea	24
Misinformation About Science is a Systems-Level Dilemma	24
What Were the Information Voids? A Qualitative Analysis of Questions Asked by Dear Pandemic Readers between August 2020-August 2021	24
Rationale, Procedures, and Response Rates for a Pilot Study to Sample Cancer Survivors for NCI’s Health Information National Trends Survey: HINTS-SEER 2021	23
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	23
Sex Education, Public Opinion, and Pornography: Replication and Experiment	23
Building Quality Health Communication in a Changing Information Environment	22
Testing the Feasibility, User Experiences, and Preliminary Effect of Conversation Cards for Adolescents © For Behavior Change and Collaborative Go	20
The Impact of Social and Material Resources on Resilience Communication at the Intersection of Race and Gender	20
Optimizing Public Health Crisis Communication: Insights from Technology-Mediated COVID-19 Messaging in Rural Ghana	19
How Do Behavioral Framing, Linguistic Certainty, and Target Specification Impact Responses to Vaping Prevention Messages?	18
“What Do I Say? How Do I Say it?” Twitter as a Knowledge Dissemination Tool for Mental Health Research	18
Safeguarding Quality in Health and Medical Science Information Today	17
Examining Organ Donor Gratitude Letters as a Novel Approach to Boost Organ Donor Registrations in South Korea	17
Health Communication: Creating Tangible Impact in a Tumultuous World: Society for Health Communication Annual National Summit	17
How Systems Mapping Can Be an Important Health Communication Tool	17
Reconsidering the Effectiveness of Fear Appeals: An Experimental Study of Interactive Fear Messaging to Promote Positive Actions on Climate Change	16
Promotion – The 4th P of Social Marketing: A Scoping Review of Efforts from 2010–2022	16
Divergent Routes of Health Infotainment in Changing Public Health Attitudes: A GPT-2 Analysis of Users' Responses to Health Infotainment	16

Opinion Leadership and Sharing Positive and Negative Information About Vaccines on Social Media: A Mixed-Methods Approach	16
The Effects of Behaviorally Informed Messages on COVID-19 Vaccination Intentions and Behavior: Evidence from Randomized Survey Experiments in South Africa	15
From Theory to Practice: Mitigating the Harm of Online Harassment in Public Health	15
Does Misinformation Have Spillover Effects on Unrelated Health Behaviors? Promising Null Results from a Longitudinal Study of U.S. Adults	15
Characteristics of Adolescents’ and Young Adults’ Exposure to and Engagement with Nicotine and Tobacco Product Content on Social Media	15
Informed Decision-Making About COVID-19 Vaccination – Development and Feasibility of a Decision Support Intervention: A Mixed-Methods Study	15
Shared Decision-Making Experiences of Couples with Inherited Cancer Risk Regarding Family Building	14
A Qualitative Content Analysis of Caregiver Reports of Conversations with Their Children about Vaccinations	14
The Effects of Vaccine Efficacy Information on Vaccination Intentions Through Perceived Response Efficacy and Hope	14
Identifying Provider-Level Barriers to Provision of PrEP Services for Cisgender Women: Application of the Disclosure Decision-Making Model	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	12
Making High-Quality Health Information More Visible – A Proposal for a Set of Criteria to Assess Information Provider Methods	12
A Narrative Persuasion Approach to Promoting COVID-19- Related Policy Support	12
Moral Foundations Predict COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy: Evidence from a National Survey of Black Americans	11
The Effects of Patient-Centered Communication on Emotional Health: Examining the Roles of Self-Efficacy, Information Seeking Frustration, and Social Media Use	11
When Provider Contact Does Not Become PrEP Care	11
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
Misfluencers, the Human Agents Behind AI-Driven Infodemics	11
Social Media Users’ Engagement with Fear Appeal Elements in Government’s Health Crisis Communication via State-Owned Media	11
Community and Opinion Leadership Effects on Vaping Discourse: A Network Analysis of Online Reddit Threads	11
Scaling the Idea of Opinion Leadership to Address Health Misinformation: The Case for “Health Communication AI”	11
Cancer and COVID-19 Vaccines on Twitter:The Voice and Vaccine Attitude of Cancer Community	10
Exploring Stigma and Black Mental Health on Twitter	10
Pro- and Anti-Tax Framing in News Articles About California Sugar-Sweetened Beverage Tax Campaigns from 2014-2018	10
Advancing Health Communication, a Call for the Future: 30 Years of the Journal of Health Communication: International Perspectives	10
Culturally Responsive Community Mental Health: Successes and Lessons from a Community Mental Health Organization	10
Outcomes of Information Seeking and Avoidance Behaviors: Insights from a German Longitudinal Study	9
Social Position and Opioid Crisis Information: Patterns of Active Seeking and Passive Exposure Among US Adults	9
The Anatomy of Deception: Conspiracy Theories, Distrust, and Public Health	9
Development and Pilot Test of an Edutainment-Based Curriculum for Addressing Misinformation in the Healthcare Setting	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
Communicating without a Shared Language: A Qualitative Study of Language Barriers in Language-Discordant Cancer Communication	9
Shared Values, Shared Responsibility, and Overwhelmingly Positive: Investigating a Targeted COVID-19 Public Health Messaging Approach Using Generative Artificial Intelligence	9
Precious Information: Getting Interpretable, Actionable Health Communications Data	9
Use and Efficacy of Conversational AI in Health Management: An Integrative Review	9
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
Research Priorities for Readability Assessment of Health Information: A Modified eDelphi Study	8
Countering Narrative Misinformation: Investigating the Effects of Narrative Corrections and Character Trust on Story-Related Knowledge of HPV	8
Framing Nutrition Messages for Audience Engagement: Insights from Institutional Social Media Communication	8
Why People Stayed Home During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Implications for Health Communication Across Four Countries	8
Mapping E-Cigarette Content on Social Media: A Scoping Review of Methods, AI Applications, and Promotional Strategies	8
Key Conversations and Trusted Information Among Hesitant Adopters of the COVID-19 Vaccine	8
What Did We Learn About Pandemic Communication?	8
Section Editor’s Note: AI, Health, and Digital Spaces — Charting a New Agenda for Health Communication	8
Health Controversies: Long-Term Disagreement Management Challenges	8
Quitting on TikTok: Effects of Message Themes, Frames, and Sources on Engagement with Vaping Cessation Videos	8
An Investigation into Memorable Messages about COVID-19	8
Digital Educational Strategies to Teach Skin Self-examination to Individuals at Risk for Skin Cancer	7
Understanding CDC’s Vaccine Communication during the COVID-19 Pandemic and Its Effectiveness in Promoting Positive Attitudes toward the COVID-19 Vaccine	7

Do Storytelling and Processing Motivation Matter? Comparing Narratives and Exemplars in Promoting Hepatitis C Screening among College Students	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
Early COVID-19 Home-Based Care Knowledge and Efficacies: Comparing Ghanaian and US Respondents	7
Quantitatively Identifying Messaging Topics to Encourage West Virginia nurses’ COVID-19 Vaccination	7
The Importance of Assessing Failure, Unexpected Results, and Lessons Learned for Advancing Health Communication Science	7
Engaging the Next Generation in Communication to Address Information Quality	7
Health Communication in an Era of Disinformation: Perceived Source Credibility Among Transgender and Gender Diverse Individuals	7
Fear in Media Headlines Increases Public Risk Perceptions but Decreases Preventive Behaviors: A Multi-Country Study During the COVID-19 Pandemic	7
Why Health Institutions Must Learn from Social Media Influencers. A Paradigm Shift in Health Communication	7
Information Service “My Cancer Navigator” to Support Shared Decision-Making: An Online Survey Among Patients with Cancer and Their Caregivers	7
Clinical AI Applications in the Context of Cancer: Explaining Openness to Information and Consent to Use Through Risk Perceptions and Efficacy Beliefs	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
Does Climate Change Affect Health? Beliefs from the Health Information National Trends Survey	6
Critical Dynamics in Black and Latino Parents’ Perceptions of Childhood COVID-19 Vaccination: How the “Middle” Moves	6
Communicating Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances (PFAS) Contamination to the Public Through Personal Relevance	6
Dying in Silence: Black Maternal Mortality in the United States	6
Bringing Artificial Intelligence (AI) into Health Information Seeking Behavior: A Study of AI and Information Seeking Research	6
Using the “Media as Mediator” Approach to Understand the Influence of Communication Channel Trust on COVID-19 Protective Behaviors: England, January 2022	6
Changing the Script: Intergenerational Communication about Sexual and Reproductive Health in Niamey, Niger	6
Revisiting the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services COVID-19 Public Education Media Campaign: Successes and New Lessons Learned	6
Understanding HPV Mitigation Content in Highly Engaged YouTube Videos: A Mixed-Method Topic Modeling and Sentiment Analysis of Videos and Related Comments Study	6
Finding My Way: Black Doulas’ Communication with Other Birthing Care Providers in an Interprofessional Work Environment	6
A Systems Map of the Challenges of Climate Communication	6
Infographics and the Elaboration Likelihood Model (ELM): Differences between Visual and Textual Health Messages	6
Connecting Communication Competencies to Public Health Practice: Community Health Workers as Non-Traditional Risk Communicators	6
Understanding Breast Cancer Images in Art History as a Form of Health Communication	6
Interpersonal Communication Strategies to Increase Iron-Folic Acid Supplement Consumption: Reduction in Anemia Through Normative Innovations (RANI) Project	6
The Stigma Toward Dementia on Twitter: A Sentiment Analysis of Dutch Language Tweets	6
For Myself or for Others? The Influence of Family Communication Patterns on Family Health History Communication and Online Health Information Seeking	6
Telehealth Talk on Reddit: Understanding How Language Use About Telemedicine Evolved Throughout the COVID-19 Pandemic	5
(De)Stigmatizing Depression on Social Media: The Role of Responsibility Frames	5
Disenfranchising Talk Mediates the Relationship Between Social Determinants of Health and Wellbeing Outcomes for Women of Color Patients with Autoimmune Disease	5
Communication Is Not a Virus: COVID-19 Vaccine-Critical Activity on Facebook and Implications for the ‘Infodemic’ Concept	5
Understanding COVID-19 Vaccine Knowledge, Beliefs, and Trusted Information Sources Among Black Women in Kentucky: Implications for Vaccine Uptake	5
A Scalability Assessment of an Organizational Health Literacy Initiative to Support Health Professionals in Developing Quality Consumer Information	5
The Relationship Between Receptivity, Targeted Beliefs, and Tobacco Use	5
Media Influence on Bystander Intervention for Health Protective Norms: The Integrative Model of Behavioral Prediction Perspective	5
How Defense and Accuracy Motives Influence Health Information Seeking and Avoidance: A Dual-Motive Model Perspective	5
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	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
Development of Podcasts in a Hospital Setting: A User-Centered Approach	5
Artificial Intelligence in Vaccine Communication	5
Co-Designing a Mobile-Based Game to Improve Misinformation Resistance and Vaccine Knowledge in Uganda, Kenya, and Rwanda	5
Leveraging Emotion for Behavior Change: Lessons from Implementation of the “Emo-Demo” Behavior Change Technique in Rural Mozambique	5
US Nationwide Multi-City Media Coverage of COVID-19 Responses: Community Structure Theory, Belief System, and a “Violated Way of Life”	5
Infodemic Management for Social and Behavior Change: Youth Mobilization for Combating Disinformation During COVID-19	5
Cervical Cancer Information Seeking in the Digital Communication Environment	5
Evaluation of the Confiance Totale Campaign in Togo: Associations Between Campaign Exposure and Family Planning Outcomes of Interest	5
Characterizing the Communication Networks of Spanish- and English-Speaking Latinx Sexual Minority Men and Their Roles in Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis Uptake	5
Native Americans’ Responses to Obesity Attributions and Message Sources in an Obesity Prevention Campaign	5
Misinformation Measures Matter: How Question Wording and Response Options Influence Estimates of Corrections on Social Media	5
Narratives and Mental Illness: Understanding the Factors That Impact Stigmatizing Attitudes and Behavioral Intentions	5
Impact of Locus of Control on Patient–Provider Communication: A Systematic Review	4
Tech, Sex, and E-cigarettes: The Gendering of Vape Promotion on Instagram	4
Solving a Controversial Health Problem May Be Tricky: Examining Social Media News Use, Gender, Fear, and Information Behaviors in HPV Prevention	4
Comparison of Current Attitudes Toward COVID-19 Vaccination in New York City and the US Nationally	4
How Attributes of Place Threaten Community Trust in the American South: Opportunities for Improving Pandemic-Related Communication	4
Tweeted, Trolled, Twisted: Battling for Narrative Control in E-Cigarette Use Prevention Campaigns (2014–2020)	4
Understanding mHealth Adoption and Lifestyle Improvement: An Empirical Test of the Antecedents and Mediating Mechanisms	4
Conditional Effect of Need for Affect and Perceived Prior Knowledge in Processing HPV Messages	4
Identifying Reference Groups in Social Norms Campaigns Intended to Promote College Students’ Mental Health Help-Seeking in South Korea	4
Dynamic Fear in Fear Appeals: Applying Fear Appeals to Environmental Communication in China	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
The Authorization of the First COVID-19 Vaccines Changed the Level and Nature of Intend to Get Vaccinated	4
Testing for Dose-Response Relationships in Health Messaging: Dosage, Framing, and Intentions to Exercise	4
A Machine Learning Approach to Analyzing Main Topics and Sentiments in YouTube’s Portrayal of HIV/AIDS in China	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
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
Newspaper Representation of Mandatory Vaccination Against COVID-19 for Healthcare Workers in England: A Qualitative Framing Analysis	4
How Trust in Cancer Information Has Changed in the Era of COVID-19: Patterns by Race and Ethnicity	4
Sierra Leone’s Polydrug Crisis is an Epidemic of Structural Violence: Community Engagement During the Ebola Response May Offer a Viable Framework for Communication Interventions	4
Trust in COVID-19 Information from Different Media Types and Its Association with Preventive Measures Adoption in the U.S.	4
Unraveling the Impact of Moral Framings within Media Coverage to Promote the (De)stigmatization of Depression on Social Media	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
Correction	4
Influencing the Influencers: Effects of an In-Person Summit on Tiktok Creators’ Mental Health Communication Habits and Beliefs	4
Coping with Non-COVID-19 Health Problems Through Communicative Action in Cyberspace	4
When ChatGPT Speaks About Health: Examining Perceptions of Warmth and Competence Toward AI as a Health Information Source	4
Learning About Pain and Illness: Physical Symptoms in German Children’s Picture Books	3

Trust in Mass Media as Sources of Cancer Information: Findings from a Nationally Representative Cross-Sectional Survey in Japan	3
The “Whole-Of-Society” Approach for Misinformation Correction: How Expert Didactic TikTok Videos Motivate Citizen Fact-Checking and Vaccine Promotion	3
Psychological Reactance Theory and COVID-19 Vaccine Mandates: The Roles of Threat Magnitude and Direction of Threat	3
Lessons Learned from Developing Tailored Community Communication Campaigns in the HEALing Communities Study	3
The Social Amplification of Secondary Risk Perceptions: Online Media Attention, Interpersonal Discussion, and Dengue Vaccination Willingness in Singapore	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
Evaluation of the “We Can Do This” Campaign Paid Media and COVID-19 Vaccination Uptake, United States, December 2020–January 2022	3
Examining the Impact of a Culture-Centric Narrative on COVID-19 Vaccines and Mental Wellness Among Latinos in the Midwest	3
Beyond Conventional Messaging: Critical Communication Strategies to Boost Vaccine Intentions	3
Journal of Health Communication: 2025 Year in Review	3
How Do Gain-Loss Frames and Cultural Arguments Persuade? Designing Effective Messages to Weaken College Students’ Binge-Drinking Intentions	3
Pornography Exposure and Coitus Interruptus in a Campus-Representative Sample of Collegiate Men	3
Who Shapes the Future of Health Communication? Networks, Silos, and New Imperatives in the Digital Age	3
Spit, Disgust, and Parasite Stress Theory: A Message Experiment	3
The Effects of Animations and Multimedia Messages on Public Engagement in Precision Medicine: Assessment of Moderation and Mediation	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
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
PFAS Contamination: Pathway from Communication to Behavioral Outcomes	2
Vaccine Confidence in NYC: Thematic Analysis of Community Stories	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
Communicating COVID-19 Risk on Instagram: A Content Analysis of Official Public Health Messaging During the First Year of the Pandemic	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
Development and Validation of Korean ‘COVID-blues’ Social Syndrome Scale	2
The Effects of Numerical Evidence and Message Framing in Communicating Vaccine Efficacy	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
Shot Talk: Development and Pilot Test of a Theory of Planned Behavior Campaign to Combat College Student COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy	2
A Social Norms Intervention to Improve Vaccination Intentions: Outcomes from the Happy Baby Program in the Slum Areas of Varanasi, India	2
The Doctor Will See Your Data Now – Data Risks in Journalistic Media Coverage of Digital Health Applications for Chronic Diseases	2
Measuring Health Professionals’ Skills and Self-Efficacy for Communicating with Individuals with Disabilities: Instrument Development and Validation	2
The Effects of the Culturally Tailored Narratives on COVID-19 Vaccine Confidence Among Hispanics: A Randomized Online Experiment	2
COVID-19 in Portugal: A Pandemic Redesigned by the Media	2
A Mobile Health Information Behavior Model: Theoretical Development and Mixed-Method Testing in the Context of Mobile Apps on Child Poisoning Prevention	2
The Relationships Between Adverse Childhood Experiences, Patient-Centered Communication, and Care-Seeking Intention	2
Healthcare Providers’ Resilience Communication: A New Type of Patient-Centered Communication	2
Explanations for Failure to Detect Effects of a Prescription Medication Disposal Intervention for Rural Adults	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
Beyond Rationality: Information Overload and Biased Perceptions of Lung Cancer Screening Among Middle-Aged Adults	2
Recalled Exposure to COVID-19 Public Education Campaign Advertisements Predicts COVID-19 Vaccine Confidence	2
Transportation into an Entertainment Narrative about the MMR Vaccine: An Investigation of Self-Referencing and Issue-Related Thoughts in Narrative Persuasion	2
Bridging Audience Segmentation and Message Intervention: AI-Generated HBM-Based Messages for Diabetes Prevention	2
Using a Social Network Approach to Characterize Oral Health Behavior Social Support Among Mexican-Origin Young Adults	2
Watching Our Language	2
Normalizing Anxiety on Social Media Increases Self-Diagnosis of Anxiety: The Mediating Effect of Identification (But Not Stigma)	2
Youth and Young Adult-targeted E-cigarette Warnings and Advertising Messages: An Experiment with Young Adults in the US	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
Does Narrative Quality Matter During Implementation of a School-Based Prevention Intervention? A Test of Narrative Engagement Theory	2
SBCC Training in Francophone West Africa: Overview, Lessons Learned, Challenges and Future Directions	2
Stress Buffering Through Online Social Support Under Offline Constraints	2