Journal of Health Communication

Article	Citations
Editor’s Note	55
Social Media Use in the Context of Drinking Onset: The Mutual Influences of Social Media Effects and Selectivity	50
Opioids in Satirical News Shows: Exploring Topics, Sentiments, and Engagement in Last Week Tonight on YouTube	49
An Experimental Test of a Generic Messaging Approach for the Canadian 24-Hour Movement Guidelines for Adults	46
An Experimental Test of Pop Music Lyrics Referencing Anxiety on Female College Students’ Audience Involvement and Peer Mental Health Empathy	38
A Year of Child Injury Prevention on Instagram	37
Foreword	34
What Were the Information Voids? A Qualitative Analysis of Questions Asked by Dear Pandemic Readers between August 2020-August 2021	27
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	25
Predicting Support for COVID-19 Policies with Partisan Media Use and Negative Emotion: Evidence from the U.S. and South Korea	21
Predicting the U.S. Public’s Prosocial Responses during the COVID-19 Pandemic	20
“I Felt Completely Turned off by the Message”: The Effects of Controlling Language, Fear, and Disgust Appeals on Responses to COVID-19 Vaccination Messages	19
Rationale, Procedures, and Response Rates for a Pilot Study to Sample Cancer Survivors for NCI’s Health Information National Trends Survey: HINTS-SEER 2021	19
Reconsidering the Effectiveness of Fear Appeals: An Experimental Study of Interactive Fear Messaging to Promote Positive Actions on Climate Change	18
“What Do I Say? How Do I Say it?” Twitter as a Knowledge Dissemination Tool for Mental Health Research	18
Interventions to Mitigate Vaping Misinformation: A Meta-Analysis	18
A Meta-analysis of Media Consumption and Rape Myth Acceptance	18
How Do Behavioral Framing, Linguistic Certainty, and Target Specification Impact Responses to Vaping Prevention Messages?	16
Targeting versus Tailoring Educational Videos for Encouraging Deceased Organ Donor Registration in Black-Owned Barbershops	16
Testing the Feasibility, User Experiences, and Preliminary Effect of Conversation Cards for Adolescents © For Behavior Change and Collaborative Go	15
Opinion Leadership and Sharing Positive and Negative Information About Vaccines on Social Media: A Mixed-Methods Approach	15
Optimizing Public Health Crisis Communication: Insights from Technology-Mediated COVID-19 Messaging in Rural Ghana	14
The Impact of Social and Material Resources on Resilience Communication at the Intersection of Race and Gender	14
Characteristics of Adolescents’ and Young Adults’ Exposure to and Engagement with Nicotine and Tobacco Product Content on Social Media	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

Disabilities and the Digital Divide: Assessing Web Accessibility, Readability, and Mobility of Popular Health Websites	14
Determining whether Public Communications Campaigns Based on the The Social Norms Approach are a Viable COVID-19 Prevention Strategy for College Campuses	14
Divergent Routes of Health Infotainment in Changing Public Health Attitudes: A GPT-2 Analysis of Users' Responses to Health Infotainment	14
The Effects of Vaccine Efficacy Information on Vaccination Intentions Through Perceived Response Efficacy and Hope	13
From Theory to Practice: Mitigating the Harm of Online Harassment in Public Health	13
Shared Decision-Making Experiences of Couples with Inherited Cancer Risk Regarding Family Building	12
A Qualitative Content Analysis of Caregiver Reports of Conversations with Their Children about Vaccinations	12
Scaling the Idea of Opinion Leadership to Address Health Misinformation: The Case for “Health Communication AI”	12
Informed Decision-Making About COVID-19 Vaccination – Development and Feasibility of a Decision Support Intervention: A Mixed-Methods Study	12
Identifying Provider-Level Barriers to Provision of PrEP Services for Cisgender Women: Application of the Disclosure Decision-Making Model	12
Misfluencers, the Human Agents Behind AI-Driven Infodemics	11
Moral Foundations Predict COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy: Evidence from a National Survey of Black Americans	11
The Effects of Behaviorally Informed Messages on COVID-19 Vaccination Intentions and Behavior: Evidence from Randomized Survey Experiments in South Africa	11
A Narrative Persuasion Approach to Promoting COVID-19- Related Policy Support	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
Community and Opinion Leadership Effects on Vaping Discourse: A Network Analysis of Online Reddit Threads	11
Pro- and Anti-Tax Framing in News Articles About California Sugar-Sweetened Beverage Tax Campaigns from 2014-2018	10
Competencies for Health Communication Specialists: Survey of Health Communication Educators and Practitioners	10
Exploring Stigma and Black Mental Health on Twitter	10
Communicating without a Shared Language: A Qualitative Study of Language Barriers in Language-Discordant Cancer Communication	10
The Effects of Patient-Centered Communication on Emotional Health: Examining the Roles of Self-Efficacy, Information Seeking Frustration, and Social Media Use	10
Cancer and COVID-19 Vaccines on Twitter:The Voice and Vaccine Attitude of Cancer Community	10
Advancing Health communication, a Call for the Future: 30 Years of the Journal of Health Communication: International Perspectives	10
Social Media Users’ Engagement with Fear Appeal Elements in Government’s Health Crisis Communication via State-Owned Media	10
Pornography and Women’s Experience of Mixed-Gender Sexual Choking/Strangulation: Eroticization Mediates, Perceived Similarity Moderates	10
The Anatomy of Deception: Conspiracy Theories, Distrust, and Public Health	10
Why People Stayed Home During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Implications for Health Communication Across Four Countries	9
Outcomes of Information Seeking and Avoidance Behaviors: Insights from a German Longitudinal Study	9
mHealth Interventions for Contraceptive Behavior Change in the United States: A Systematic Review	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
Quantitatively Identifying Messaging Topics to Encourage West Virginia nurses’ COVID-19 Vaccination	8
Countering Narrative Misinformation: Investigating the Effects of Narrative Corrections and Character Trust on Story-Related Knowledge of HPV	8
What Did We Learn About Pandemic Communication?	8
Precious Information: Getting Interpretable, Actionable Health Communications Data	8
Health Controversies: Long-Term Disagreement Management Challenges	8
Fear in Media Headlines Increases Public Risk Perceptions but Decreases Preventive Behaviors: A Multi-Country Study During the COVID-19 Pandemic	8
Digital Educational Strategies to Teach Skin Self-examination to Individuals at Risk for Skin Cancer	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
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
Conservative Media Use and Childhood COVID-19 Vaccine Information: A Test of the Contradictory Health Information Processing Model	8
Understanding CDC’s Vaccine Communication during the COVID-19 Pandemic and Its Effectiveness in Promoting Positive Attitudes toward the COVID-19 Vaccine	8
An Investigation into Memorable Messages about COVID-19	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
Why Health Institutions Must Learn from Social Media Influencers. A Paradigm Shift in Health Communication	7
Health Communication in an Era of Disinformation: Perceived Source Credibility Among Transgender and Gender Diverse Individuals	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

The Association Between the We Can Do This Campaign and Vaccination Beliefs in the United States, January 2021–March 2022	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
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
“It Encourages Family Discussion”: A Mixed-Methods Examination of the This Is Us Alzheimer’s Disease & Caregiving Storyline	6
Changing the Script: Intergenerational Communication about Sexual and Reproductive Health in Niamey, Niger	6
A Systems Map of the Challenges of Climate Communication	6
The Stigma Toward Dementia on Twitter: A Sentiment Analysis of Dutch Language Tweets	6
Factors that Influence Intent to Share Genetic Information Related to Cancer Risk with Family Members	6
Does Climate Change Affect Health? Beliefs from the Health Information National Trends Survey	6
Revisiting the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services COVID-19 Public Education Media Campaign: Successes and New Lessons Learned	6
I’m Lovin’ It: How Fast Food Advertising Influences Meat-Eating Preferences	6
Bringing Artificial Intelligence (AI) into Health Information Seeking Behavior: A Study of AI and Information Seeking Research	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
Interpersonal Communication Strategies to Increase Iron-Folic Acid Supplement Consumption: Reduction in Anemia Through Normative Innovations (RANI) Project	6
Finding My Way: Black Doulas’ Communication with Other Birthing Care Providers in an Interprofessional Work Environment	6
The Impact of Emotion and Government Trust on Individuals’ Risk Information Seeking and Avoidance during the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Cross-country Comparison	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
Critical Dynamics in Black and Latino Parents’ Perceptions of Childhood COVID-19 Vaccination: How the “Middle” Moves	5
Seeing “The Bigger Picture:” Impact of an Arts-Focused Type 2 Diabetes Education Program in High Schools	5
Disenfranchising Talk Mediates the Relationship Between Social Determinants of Health and Wellbeing Outcomes for Women of Color Patients with Autoimmune Disease	5
For Myself or for Others? The Influence of Family Communication Patterns on Family Health History Communication and Online Health Information Seeking	5
Evaluation of the Confiance Totale Campaign in Togo: Associations Between Campaign Exposure and Family Planning Outcomes of Interest	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
Communicating Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances (PFAS) Contamination to the Public Through Personal Relevance	5
Infographics and the Elaboration Likelihood Model (ELM): Differences between Visual and Textual Health Messages	5
Understanding Breast Cancer Images in Art History as a Form of Health Communication	5
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
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
The Authorization of the First COVID-19 Vaccines Changed the Level and Nature of Intend to Get Vaccinated	4
Tech, Sex, and E-cigarettes: The Gendering of Vape Promotion on Instagram	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
Unraveling the Impact of Moral Framings within Media Coverage to Promote the (De)stigmatization of Depression on Social Media	4
Native Americans’ Responses to Obesity Attributions and Message Sources in an Obesity Prevention Campaign	4
Leveraging Emotion for Behavior Change: Lessons from Implementation of the “Emo-Demo” Behavior Change Technique in Rural Mozambique	4
Infodemic Management for Social and Behavior Change: Youth Mobilization for Combating Disinformation During COVID-19	4
Narratives and Mental Illness: Understanding the Factors That Impact Stigmatizing Attitudes and Behavioral Intentions	4
The dynamics of trust and communication in COVID-19 vaccine decision making: A qualitative inquiry	4
How Trust in Cancer Information Has Changed in the Era of COVID-19: Patterns by Race and Ethnicity	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
Solving a Controversial Health Problem May Be Tricky: Examining Social Media News Use, Gender, Fear, and Information Behaviors in HPV Prevention	4
Trust in COVID-19 Information from Different Media Types and Its Association with Preventive Measures Adoption in the U.S.	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
Co-Designing a Mobile-Based Game to Improve Misinformation Resistance and Vaccine Knowledge in Uganda, Kenya, and Rwanda	4
US Nationwide Multi-City Media Coverage of COVID-19 Responses: Community Structure Theory, Belief System, and a “Violated Way of Life”	4
Creating the HHS COVID-19 Public Education Media Campaign: Applying Systems Change Learnings	4
Development of Podcasts in a Hospital Setting: A User-Centered Approach	4
Understanding COVID-19 Vaccine Knowledge, Beliefs, and Trusted Information Sources Among Black Women in Kentucky: Implications for Vaccine Uptake	4
The Relationship Between Receptivity, Targeted Beliefs, and Tobacco Use	4
Exploring the Association Between Suicide Prevention Public Service Announcements and User Comments on YouTube: A Computational Text Analysis Approach	4
Wild to Mild : CDC’s Influenza Vaccination Campaign Highlights Value of Messaging Around Attenuation of Illness	4
Impact of Locus of Control on Patient–Provider Communication: A Systematic Review	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
Dynamic Fear in Fear Appeals: Applying Fear Appeals to Environmental Communication in China	4
Comparison of Current Attitudes Toward COVID-19 Vaccination in New York City and the US Nationally	4
COVID-19 Vaccine-related Information Seeking and Scanning: A Test of Mediators between Information Acquisition and Vaccination Intention among Unvaccinated Black Americans	4
Characterizing the Communication Networks of Spanish- and English-Speaking Latinx Sexual Minority Men and Their Roles in Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis Uptake	4
Evaluation of HPV Vaccine: Same Way, Same DayTM: A Pilot Study	3
Newspaper Representation of Mandatory Vaccination Against COVID-19 for Healthcare Workers in England: A Qualitative Framing Analysis	3
How Attributes of Place Threaten Community Trust in the American South: Opportunities for Improving Pandemic-Related Communication	3
Use of Online Medical Records to Support Medical Decision Making: A Cross-Sectional Study of US Adults	3
A Mobile Health Information Behavior Model: Theoretical Development and Mixed-Method Testing in the Context of Mobile Apps on Child Poisoning Prevention	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
Implementing Interventions to Improve Health Communication Equity for First Nations People: Guidance from a Rapid Realist Review	3
Lessons Learned from Developing Tailored Community Communication Campaigns in the HEALing Communities Study	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
A Systematic Review of Responsibility Frames and Their Effects in the Health Context	3
The Effects of Animations and Multimedia Messages on Public Engagement in Precision Medicine: Assessment of Moderation and Mediation	3
Spit, Disgust, and Parasite Stress Theory: A Message Experiment	3
The Influence of Social Eating Norms on Motivational Responses When Processing Fast Food Advertisements	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

Message Strategies and Viewer Responses: Content Analysis of HPV Vaccination Videos on YouTube	3
Coping with Non-COVID-19 Health Problems Through Communicative Action in Cyberspace	3
Identifying Reference Groups in Social Norms Campaigns Intended to Promote College Students’ Mental Health Help-Seeking in South Korea	3
Correction	3
Psychological Reactance Theory and COVID-19 Vaccine Mandates: The Roles of Threat Magnitude and Direction of Threat	3
Understanding mHealth Adoption and Lifestyle Improvement: An Empirical Test of the Antecedents and Mediating Mechanisms	3
COVID-19 in Portugal: A Pandemic Redesigned by the Media	3
Sophocles’Philoctetesand Moral Injury in the COVID-19 Pandemic	3
Mapping Perceptual Differences to Understand COVID-19 Beliefs in Those with Vaccine Hesitancy	3
The “Whole-Of-Society” Approach for Misinformation Correction: How Expert Didactic TikTok Videos Motivate Citizen Fact-Checking and Vaccine Promotion	3
Examining the Theory of Motivated Information Management (TMIM) in the COVID-19 Pandemic	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
How Do Gain-Loss Frames and Cultural Arguments Persuade? Designing Effective Messages to Weaken College Students’ Binge-Drinking Intentions	3
Normalizing Anxiety on Social Media Increases Self-Diagnosis of Anxiety: The Mediating Effect of Identification (But Not Stigma)	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
Explanations for Failure to Detect Effects of a Prescription Medication Disposal Intervention for Rural Adults	2
Death Narratives, Negative Emotion, and Counterarguing: Testing Fear, Anger, and Sadness as Mechanisms of Effect	2
Measuring Health Professionals’ Skills and Self-Efficacy for Communicating with Individuals with Disabilities: Instrument Development and Validation	2
Time to Treat the Climate and Nature Crisis as One Indivisible Global Health Emergency	2
Recalled Exposure to COVID-19 Public Education Campaign Advertisements Predicts COVID-19 Vaccine Confidence	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
Healthcare Providers’ Resilience Communication: A New Type of Patient-Centered Communication	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
Exposure to “Vaccination Selfies” Relate to Readers’ Vaccination Intention: The Moderating Role of Partisan Media Use and the Mediating Role of Affective Responses	2
PFAS Contamination: Pathway from Communication to Behavioral Outcomes	2
Trust in Mass Media as Sources of Cancer Information: Findings from a Nationally Representative Cross-Sectional Survey in Japan	2
The Effects of Numerical Evidence and Message Framing in Communicating Vaccine Efficacy	2
Communicating COVID-19 Risk on Instagram: A Content Analysis of Official Public Health Messaging During the First Year of the Pandemic	2
Weight Stigma in Online News Images: A Visual Content Analysis of Stigma Communication in the Depictions of Individuals with Obesity in U.S. and U.K. News	2
SBCC Training in Francophone West Africa: Overview, Lessons Learned, Challenges and Future Directions	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
Watching Our Language	2
The Effects of the Culturally Tailored Narratives on COVID-19 Vaccine Confidence Among Hispanics: A Randomized Online Experiment	2
The Art and Heart of a Community: Lamar Dodd’s The Heart Series in LaGrange, Georgia	2
Using a Social Network Approach to Characterize Oral Health Behavior Social Support Among Mexican-Origin Young 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
Examining the Impact of a Culture-Centric Narrative on COVID-19 Vaccines and Mental Wellness Among Latinos in the Midwest	2
Transportation into an Entertainment Narrative about the MMR Vaccine: An Investigation of Self-Referencing and Issue-Related Thoughts in Narrative Persuasion	2
Shot Talk: Development and Pilot Test of a Theory of Planned Behavior Campaign to Combat College Student COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy	2
Comparison of COVID-19 Information Seeking, Trust of Information Sources, and Protective Behaviors in China and the US	2
Can Altruistic Emotions Promote Vaccine Advocacy? Examining the Use of Empathy and Elevation in Vaccine Messages	2
Development and Validation of Korean ‘COVID-blues’ Social Syndrome Scale	2
Show Me a Photo of the Character: Exploring the Interaction between Text and Visuals in Narrative Persuasion	2
Vaccine Confidence in NYC: Thematic Analysis of Community Stories	2
Gender-Specific Pictorial Health Warnings: Moderation Effects of the Threat Level and Gender	2