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Health Communication
Volume 24(6), 2009

 
CONTENTS
 
Kang, Yahui, Cappella, Joseph N., and Fishbein, Martin The effect of marijuana scenes in anti-marijuana public service announcements on adolescents' evaluation of ad effectiveness 483-493
 
  This study explored the possible negative impact of a specific ad feature - marijuana scenes - on adolescents' perceptions of ad effectiveness 
 
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drugs
cognition
children
health
persuasion
advertising
 
 
DeLorme, Denise E., and Huh, Jisu Seniors' uncertainty management of direct-to-consumer prescription drug advertising usefulness 494-503
 
  This study provides insight into seniors' perceptions of and responses to direct-to-consumer prescription drug advertising (DTCA) usefulness, examines support for DTCA regulation as a type of uncertainty management, and extends and gives empirical voice to previous survey results through methodological triangulation 
 
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cognition
advertising
theory
health
 
 
Shen, Lijiang, and Dillard, James Price Message frames interact with motivational systems to determine depth of message processing 504-514
 
  Although several theoretical perspectives predict that negatively framed messages will be processed more deeply than positively framed messages, a recent meta-analysis found no such difference 
 
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methodology
theory
health
persuasion cognition
 
 
Beaudoin, Christopher E. Evaluating a media campaign that targeted PTSD after Hurricane Katrina 515-523
 
  This study evaluates a media campaign that targeted posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in New Orleans following Hurricane Katrina 
 
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stress
persuasion
health
mental health
 
 
Bachner, Yaacov G., and Carmel, Sara Open communication between caregivers and terminally ill cancer patients: The role of caregivers' characteristics and situational variables 524-531
 
  This study assesses caregivers' perceived level of open communication about illness and death with their terminally ill relatives and examines the contribution of caregivers' characteristics and situational variables to the explanation of open communication 
 
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health
death
interpersonal
competence
 
 
Johnson, Joy L., Oliffe, John L., Kelly, Mary T., Bottorff, Joan L., and LeBeau, Karen The readings of smoking fathers: A reception analysis of tobacco cessation images 532-547
 
  The purpose of this qualitative study was to examine how new fathers decode image-based anti-smoking messages and uncover the extent to which ideals of masculinity might influence men to take up and/or disregard smoking cessation messages 
 
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gender
personality and psychology
persuasion
drugs
health
 
 
Quick, Brian L., Bates, Benjamin R., and Quinlan, Margaret R. The utility of anger in promoting clean indoor air policies 548-561
 
  This investigation examined antecedents associated with support for clean indoor air policies 
 
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health
emotion
drugs
 
 
Lapinski, Maria Knight, Randall, Liisa M., Peterson, Mark, Peterson, Amy, and Klein, Katherine A. Prevention options for positives: The effects of a health communication intervention for men who have sex with men living with HIV/AIDS 562-571
 
  This article reports the results of a small-scale quasi-experiment that tested the efficacy of the Prevention Options for Positives intervention 
 
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health
persuasion
sexuality
interpersonal