Journal of Health Communication

Article	Citations
Understanding Australian Government Risk Communication Early in the COVID-19 Pandemic: Sociodemographics, Risk Attitudes and Media Consumption	93
Establishing and Maintaining Trust: How the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force Uses Strategic Communications to Build Confidence in and Disseminate Its Evidence-Based Recommendations	71
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	49
An Experimental Test of a Generic Messaging Approach for the Canadian 24-Hour Movement Guidelines for Adults	45
A Year of Child Injury Prevention on Instagram	43
Localizing COVID-19 Misinformation: A Case Study of Tracking Twitter Pandemic Narratives in Pennsylvania Using Computational Network Science	40
Egyptian Newspapers Coverage of COVID-19 Vaccines: A Theoretically Driven Content Analysis	32
Infodemic Management for Social and Behavior Change: Youth Mobilization for Combating Disinformation During COVID-19	30
Testing Likely Response to Behavioral Nudges and Shoves to Promote COVID-19 Vaccine Uptake Amongst Segments of the Unvaccinated Population of South Africa	29
Narratives and Mental Illness: Understanding the Factors That Impact Stigmatizing Attitudes and Behavioral Intentions	27
PTSD Coverage in the New York Times : Implications for the State of Mental Health in the U.S	27
Outcomes of Information Seeking and Avoidance Behaviors: Insights from a German Longitudinal Study	23
Health Controversies: Long-Term Disagreement Management Challenges	22
Opioids in Satirical News Shows: Exploring Topics, Sentiments, and Engagement in Last Week Tonight on YouTube	21
Examining the Effects of Social Media Warning Labels on Perceived Credibility and Intent to Engage with Health Misinformation: The Moderating Role of Vaccine Hesitancy	20
Quitting on TikTok: Effects of Message Themes, Frames, and Sources on Engagement with Vaping Cessation Videos	19
Patient-Centered Communication and Cancer Information Overload Among Adults without a History of Cancer in the United States	18
The Anatomy of Deception: Conspiracy Theories, Distrust, and Public Health	18
How Health Consciousness and Health Literacy Influence Evaluative Responses to Nutrient-Content Claimed Messaging for an Unhealthy Food	18
Optimizing Health Communication Noticeability with Visual Design and Humor: An Applied Approach for COVID-19 Public Messaging	18
Tobacco Free Nicotine Vaping Products: A Study of Health Halo Effects Among Middle School Youth	15
Editor’s Note	15
Sophocles’Philoctetesand Moral Injury in the COVID-19 Pandemic	15
Maintaining a Fair Balance? Narrative and Non-Narrative Strategies in Televised Direct-to-Consumer Advertisements for Prescription Drugs Aired in the United States, 2003–2016	14
Narrative Vs. Standard of Care Messages: Testing How Communication Can Positively Influence Adolescents with Type 1 Diabetes	14

“A Friendly Conversation.” Developing an eHealth Intervention to Increase COVID-19 Testing and Vaccination Literacy Among Women with Criminal and Legal System Involvement	14
mHealth Interventions for Contraceptive Behavior Change in the United States: A Systematic Review	14
Why People Stayed Home During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Implications for Health Communication Across Four Countries	14
Communication Is Not a Virus: COVID-19 Vaccine-Critical Activity on Facebook and Implications for the ‘Infodemic’ Concept	13
Understanding COVID-19 Vaccine Knowledge, Beliefs, and Trusted Information Sources Among Black Women in Kentucky: Implications for Vaccine Uptake	13
Impact of an Arts-based Public Health Literacy Program Delivered Online to High School Students during the COVID-19 Pandemic	13
Native Americans’ Responses to Obesity Attributions and Message Sources in an Obesity Prevention Campaign	13
The Drivers of Conversations About Dementia Risk Reduction: A Qualitative Study	12
A comprehensive examination of association between belief in vaccine misinformation and vaccination intention in the COVID-19 context	11
COVID-19 Vaccination Attitudes and Intention: Message Framing and the Moderating Role of Perceived Vaccine Benefits	11
Creating the HHS COVID-19 Public Education Media Campaign: Applying Systems Change Learnings	11
Mapping Perceptual Differences to Understand COVID-19 Beliefs in Those with Vaccine Hesitancy	11
Characterizing the Communication Networks of Spanish- and English-Speaking Latinx Sexual Minority Men and Their Roles in Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis Uptake	11
Toward a Recipe for Deep versus Surface Level Tailoring: Mixed-Methods Validation of Message Features to Reduce Sugary Beverage Consumption	11
Understanding How Youth Search for Mental Health Information Online: A Qualitative Descriptive Study	10
Examining the Theory of Motivated Information Management (TMIM) in the COVID-19 Pandemic	10
Media Influence on Bystander Intervention for Health Protective Norms: The Integrative Model of Behavioral Prediction Perspective	10
Dangling Carrots and Twisting Arms: Incentivizing COVID-19 Vaccination for Community Benefit	9
A Media Literacy Education Approach to Sexual Health Promotion: Immediate Effects of Media Aware on the Sexual Health Cognitions of Young Adult Community College Student	9
Social Media Use in the Context of Drinking Onset: The Mutual Influences of Social Media Effects and Selectivity	9
Precious Information: Getting Interpretable, Actionable Health Communications Data	9
Key Conversations and Trusted Information Among Hesitant Adopters of the COVID-19 Vaccine	9
Correction	9
How Message-Evoked Emotions Undermine Persuasion: The Mediating Role of Fear and Anger in Health Message Effects Among Older Adults	8
Evaluation of the “We Can Do This” Campaign Paid Media and COVID-19 Vaccination Uptake, United States, December 2020–January 2022	8
To Tailor or Not to Tailor: An Investigation of Narrative Tailoring for Health Communication	8
An Experimental Test of Pop Music Lyrics Referencing Anxiety on Female College Students’ Audience Involvement and Peer Mental Health Empathy	8
Do Socioeconomic Disparities Matter? Unraveling the Impacts of Online Vaccine Misinformation on Vaccination Intention During the COVID-19 Pandemic in China	8
Testing Narrative Persuasion of a Culturally Grounded, School-Based “Dale Se REAL” Entertainment-Education Intervention and Peer Communication on Nicaraguan Adolescent Substance Use	8
Exploring the Dunning-Kruger Effect in Health Communication: How Perceived Food and Media Literacy and Actual Knowledge Drift Apart When Evaluating Misleading Food Advertising	8
Fifteen Years after a 10-year Retrospective: The State of Health Mass Mediated Campaigns	8
Countering Narrative Misinformation: Investigating the Effects of Narrative Corrections and Character Trust on Story-Related Knowledge of HPV	8
Face Value: Remote facial expression analysis adds predictive power to perceived effectiveness for selecting anti-tobacco PSAs	8
Pornography Use and Coitus Interruptus: Is There a Link?	7
What Did We Learn About Pandemic Communication?	7
Examining the Impact of a Culture-Centric Narrative on COVID-19 Vaccines and Mental Wellness Among Latinos in the Midwest	7
COVID-19 in Portugal: A Pandemic Redesigned by the Media	7
Conservative Media Use and Childhood COVID-19 Vaccine Information: A Test of the Contradictory Health Information Processing Model	7
A Mobile Health Information Behavior Model: Theoretical Development and Mixed-Method Testing in the Context of Mobile Apps on Child Poisoning Prevention	7
An Analysis of Crisis Communication Delivered by the Chief Health Officer During the COVID-19 Pandemic in Queensland, Australia	7
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	6
PFAS Contamination: Pathway from Communication to Behavioral Outcomes	6
Modeling Electronic-Cigarette Users’ Risk Information Avoidance	6
Trust in Mass Media as Sources of Cancer Information: Findings from a Nationally Representative Cross-Sectional Survey in Japan	6
Parent-Adolescent Weight Communication: Parental Psychosocial Correlates Among a Diverse National Sample	6
Cancer Survivors’ Emotional Well-being: Roles of Internet Information Seeking, Patient-centered Communication, and Social Support	6
Predicting the U.S. Public’s Prosocial Responses during the COVID-19 Pandemic	6
The Influence of Social Eating Norms on Motivational Responses When Processing Fast Food Advertisements	6
Can Happiness and Sadness Overcome Organ Donation Barriers Following Exposure to Radio Ads?	6
“I Felt Completely Turned off by the Message”: The Effects of Controlling Language, Fear, and Disgust Appeals on Responses to COVID-19 Vaccination Messages	6

Bridging Culture and Language: Encouraging Bilingual/Multicultural Individuals to Act as Information Navigators for Their Loved-Ones and Communities during the COVID-19 Pandemic	6
Co-Designing a Mobile-Based Game to Improve Misinformation Resistance and Vaccine Knowledge in Uganda, Kenya, and Rwanda	6
Understanding CDC’s Vaccine Communication during the COVID-19 Pandemic and Its Effectiveness in Promoting Positive Attitudes toward the COVID-19 Vaccine	6
US Nationwide Multi-City Media Coverage of COVID-19 Responses: Community Structure Theory, Belief System, and a “Violated Way of Life”	6
Using a Social Network Approach to Characterize Oral Health Behavior Social Support Among Mexican-Origin Young Adults	6
Effects of Health Responsibility Frames: Testing a Mediation Model of Attributions, Emotions, and Social Support Intentions	6
Fear in Media Headlines Increases Public Risk Perceptions but Decreases Preventive Behaviors: A Multi-Country Study During the COVID-19 Pandemic	6
Examining Antecedents of Factual Knowledge and Perceived Familiarity of COVID-19 Contact Tracing App: A Modified Cognitive Mediation Model	5
COVID-19 Vaccine-related Information Seeking and Scanning: A Test of Mediators between Information Acquisition and Vaccination Intention among Unvaccinated Black Americans	5
Piloting Gain and Loss-Framed PrEP and Childbearing Messaging to Promote HIV Testing in Uganda: Perspectives from Couples and Providers	5
Communicating COVID-19 Risk on Instagram: A Content Analysis of Official Public Health Messaging During the First Year of the Pandemic	5
Digital Educational Strategies to Teach Skin Self-examination to Individuals at Risk for Skin Cancer	5
What Were the Information Voids? A Qualitative Analysis of Questions Asked by Dear Pandemic Readers between August 2020-August 2021	5
Advancing Community-Based Participatory Research During the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Methods Commentary on the Lessons Learned from Working with Community Data Collectors on a Refugee Health Disparities S	5
Rationale, Procedures, and Response Rates for a Pilot Study to Sample Cancer Survivors for NCI’s Health Information National Trends Survey: HINTS-SEER 2021	5
Intentions to Seek Information about E-Cigarettes: Perceived Risk, Efficacy, and Smoking Identity	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
Spit, Disgust, and Parasite Stress Theory: A Message Experiment	5
Development of a Web-Based Alcohol Prevention Program Linking School-Child-Family for Intermediate Elementary Students	5
The Association Between the We Can Do This Campaign and Vaccination Beliefs in the United States, January 2021–March 2022	5
Quantitatively Identifying Messaging Topics to Encourage West Virginia nurses’ COVID-19 Vaccination	5
Ideology and COVID-19 Vaccination Intention: Perceptual Mediators and Communication Moderators	4
“On the Wings of Wishes” (Icchedana), Adolescent Girls in Bangladesh Taking Flight Using A Social Behavioral Change Communication Program to Address Child Marriage Related Social Norms: A Longi	4
COVID-19 Information Overload Mediated the Effects of Cross-Channel Information Differences on Health Information Elaboration	4
Using TikTok to Educate, Influence, or Inspire? A Content Analysis of Health-Related EduTok Videos	4
Impact of Locus of Control on Patient–Provider Communication: A Systematic Review	4
Carrying a Community on Their Shoulders: Virgil’s Aeneas and the Duty of Healthcare Workers	4
What if I Tell You E-Cigarette Users are Inferior? An Investigation of Social Identity Threat in Health Messaging	4
A Meta-analysis of Media Consumption and Rape Myth Acceptance	4
Predicting Support for COVID-19 Policies with Partisan Media Use and Negative Emotion: Evidence from the U.S. and South Korea	4
Parents’ Willingness to Vaccinate Children for COVID-19: Conspiracy Theories, Information Sources, and Perceived Responsibility	4
A Pilot Study Assessing Reactions to Educational Videos on Harm of Waterpipe among Young Adults Susceptible to Waterpipe Tobacco Smoking	4
The Role of Social and Behavioral Change Communication To Address Inequities and Disparities in Public Health: Reflecting on Themes from the 3 rd International Socia	4
Comparison of Current Attitudes Toward COVID-19 Vaccination in New York City and the US Nationally	4
Misinformation, Anticipated Regret, and Vaccine-Related Behaviors	4
Normalizing Anxiety on Social Media Increases Self-Diagnosis of Anxiety: The Mediating Effect of Identification (But Not Stigma)	4
An Investigation into Memorable Messages about COVID-19	4
The Authorization of the First COVID-19 Vaccines Changed the Level and Nature of Intend to Get Vaccinated	4
The Influence of Linguistic Agency and Causality Attribution in Support-seeking about Depression on Perceived Stigma and Support Messages	4
Communication Infrastructure in an Asian Immigrant Community	4
When Media Health Stories Conflict: Test of the Contradictory Health Information Processing (CHIP) Model	4
Exploring the Strategic Use of TikTok for Clinical Trial Recruitment: How audiences’ Prior Short-Form Video Usage Influences Persuasive Effects	3
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	3
Exploring the Association Between Suicide Prevention Public Service Announcements and User Comments on YouTube: A Computational Text Analysis Approach	3
Gender-Specific Pictorial Health Warnings: Moderation Effects of the Threat Level and Gender	3
Determining whether Public Communications Campaigns Based on the The Social Norms Approach are a Viable COVID-19 Prevention Strategy for College Campuses	3
Visual Art and Medical Narratives as Universal Connectors in Health Communication: An Exploratory Study	3
Opinion Leadership and Sharing Positive and Negative Information About Vaccines on Social Media: A Mixed-Methods Approach	3
The Influence of Information Source on COVID-19 Vaccine Efficacy and Motivation for Self-Protective Behavior	3
Exposure to “Vaccination Selfies” Relate to Readers’ Vaccination Intention: The Moderating Role of Partisan Media Use and the Mediating Role of Affective Responses	3
The Effects of Numerical Evidence and Message Framing in Communicating Vaccine Efficacy	3
Trust in COVID-19 Information from Different Media Types and Its Association with Preventive Measures Adoption in the U.S.	3
Do Storytelling and Processing Motivation Matter? Comparing Narratives and Exemplars in Promoting Hepatitis C Screening among College Students	3
Family Attitudes and Communication about Sun Protection and Sun Protection Practices among Young Adult Melanoma Survivors and Their Family Members	3
Optimizing Public Health Crisis Communication: Insights from Technology-Mediated COVID-19 Messaging in Rural Ghana	3
The Influence of Video-Modeled Sexual Assault Disclosure and Self-Efficacy Messages on Sexual Assault Disclosure Efficacy of Adolescent Girls	3
Online Media Consumption, Fear, Mental Wellbeing, and Behavioral Compliance During the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Longitudinal Study	3
Understanding the Association between Online Social Support Obtainment and Coping during a Public Crisis	3
Testing the Feasibility, User Experiences, and Preliminary Effect of Conversation Cards for Adolescents © For Behavior Change and Collaborative Go	3
Unraveling the Impact of Moral Framings within Media Coverage to Promote the (De)stigmatization of Depression on Social Media	3
Public Health Messaging to Address Indoor Tanning: A Scoping Review	3
Marketing Physical Activity? Exploring the Role of Brand Resonance in Health Promotion	3
Tech, Sex, and E-cigarettes: The Gendering of Vape Promotion on Instagram	3
Uncertainty and Negative Emotions in Parental Decision-making on Childhood Vaccinations: Extending the Theory of Planned Behavior to the Context of Conflicting Health Information	3
The COVID-19 Pandemic and Positive Psychology: The Role of News and Trust in News on Mental Health and Well-Being	3
Disabilities and the Digital Divide: Assessing Web Accessibility, Readability, and Mobility of Popular Health Websites	2
Information Service “My Cancer Navigator” to Support Shared Decision-Making: An Online Survey Among Patients with Cancer and Their Caregivers	2
People Wear Masks when they Ski: Comparing Congruent and Incongruent Behavioral Context Appeals	2
The Impact of Social and Material Resources on Resilience Communication at the Intersection of Race and Gender	2
Characteristics of Adolescents’ and Young Adults’ Exposure to and Engagement with Nicotine and Tobacco Product Content on Social Media	2
Online Health Communities’ Portrayal of Obesity on Social Media Platforms in South Africa	2
The Role of Culturally Appropriate Mediated Communication Strategies to Reduce Hepatitis B and Liver Cancer Disparities	2
Reconsidering the Effectiveness of Fear Appeals: An Experimental Study of Interactive Fear Messaging to Promote Positive Actions on Climate Change	2
Engaging the Next Generation in Communication to Address Information Quality	2
Gender Differences in the Nonspecific and Health-Specific Use of Social Media Before and During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Trend Analysis Using HINTS 2017-2020 Data	2
COVID-19 News and Misinformation: Do They Matter for Public Health Prevention?	2
“What Do I Say? How Do I Say it?” Twitter as a Knowledge Dissemination Tool for Mental Health Research	2
A Health Crisis in the Age of Misinformation: How Social Media and Mass Media Influenced Misperceptions about COVID-19 and Compliance Behavior	2
How Do Behavioral Framing, Linguistic Certainty, and Target Specification Impact Responses to Vaping Prevention Messages?	2

A Systematic Review of Responsibility Frames and Their Effects in the Health Context	2
Death Narratives, Negative Emotion, and Counterarguing: Testing Fear, Anger, and Sadness as Mechanisms of Effect	2
Curiosity, Surprise, and the Recall of Tobacco-Related Health Information in Adolescents	2
Dynamic Fear in Fear Appeals: Applying Fear Appeals to Environmental Communication in China	2
Measuring Health Professionals’ Skills and Self-Efficacy for Communicating with Individuals with Disabilities: Instrument Development and Validation	2
The Art and Heart of a Community: Lamar Dodd’s The Heart Series in LaGrange, Georgia	2
Addressing the Health Literacy Needs and Experiences of Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Populations in Australia during COVID-19: A Research Embedded Participatory Approach	2
A Missing Mechanism of Effect: How People Who Habitually Replot Stories React Differently (Or Not so Differently) to Melanoma Narratives	2
Health Communication in an Era of Disinformation: Perceived Source Credibility Among Transgender and Gender Diverse Individuals	2
Divergent Routes of Health Infotainment in Changing Public Health Attitudes: A GPT-2 Analysis of Users' Responses to Health Infotainment	2
Patient-Provider Communication and Online Health Information Seeking among a Sample of US Older Adults	2
Development and Validation of COVID-19 Vaccine Messaging Materials for Latinx Communities	2
Targeting versus Tailoring Educational Videos for Encouraging Deceased Organ Donor Registration in Black-Owned Barbershops	2
Validating the Communicating Care Needs Tool for HIV (CCNT-HIV)	2
Does Organizational Messaging Make a Difference? Investigating Themes and Language Style in Twitter Discourse and Engagement by Mental Health Organizations	2
Climate Communication, Public Health, and Social Media: Examining the Role of Health Agencies in Addressing the Impacts of Climate Change on Human Health	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
Interventions to Mitigate Vaping Misinformation: A Meta-Analysis	2
Transportation into an Entertainment Narrative about the MMR Vaccine: An Investigation of Self-Referencing and Issue-Related Thoughts in Narrative Persuasion	2