ArticleJournal of health communication2009
Validating measures of scanned information exposure in the context of cancer prevention and screening behaviors.
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28 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
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- Breadth of Media Scanning Leads to Vaping among Youth and Young Adults: Evidence of Direct and Indirect Pathways from a National Longitudinal Survey.Journal of health communication · 2020Article
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- How the public uses social media wechat to obtain health information in china: a survey study.BMC medical informatics and decision making · 2017Article
- Who's Responsible? Media Framing of Pediatric Environmental Health and Mothers' Perceptions of Accountability.Journal of health communication · 2016Article
- The Moderated Influence of Perceived Behavioral Control on Intentions Among the General U.S. Population: Implications for Public Communication Campaigns.Journal of health communication · 2016Article
- The effects of SNS communication: How expressing and receiving information predict MERS-preventive behavioral intentions in South Korea.Computers in human behavior · 2016Article
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- Nonmedical information seeking amid conflicting health information: negative and positive effects on prostate cancer screening.Health communication · 2016Article
- Measuring Exposure Opportunities: Using Exogenous Measures in Assessing Effects of Media Exposure on Smoking Outcomes.Communication methods and measures · 2016Article
- Information scanning and vaccine safety concerns among African American, Mexican American, and non-Hispanic White women.Patient education and counseling · 2016Article
- Measuring Exposure to Direct-to-Consumer Advertising-A Validation Study in the Context of Cancer-Related Treatment Advertising.Communication methods and measures · 2014Article
- Information seeking from media and family/friends increases the likelihood of engaging in healthy lifestyle behaviors.Journal of health communication · 2013Article
- Effects of scanning (routine health information exposure) on cancer screening and prevention behaviors in the general population.Journal of health communication · 2013Article
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Abstract
Individuals may obtain health information, particularly from the mass media, without engaging in purposeful information searches (called scanning). This study used the Seeking and Scanning Behavior Survey of the General Population (SSBG), a nationally representative survey of adults aged 40-70 years (n = 2,489), to validate measures of scanned information exposure about cancer prevention and screening behaviors. Scanned exposure measures concerning specific behaviors (exercise; fruit and vegetable consumption; dieting; and mammogram, prostate-specific antigen (PSA) text, and colonoscopy screening) have good face validity and are convergent across behaviors (mean correlation across six preventive behaviors = 0.50, sd = 0.09). These measures can be discriminated from measures of general media exposure (mean r = 0.23, sd = 0.02) and seeking exposure for the same behaviors (mean r = 0.25, sd = 0.06). Scanned information exposure was associated with weekly volume of newspaper coverage for two of six behaviors, providing additional evidence of nomological validity. Scanned information exposure at the first round of measurement was associated with identical exposure 1 year later (mean r = .41, sd = .04). Scanned exposure measures also were significantly associated with five of the six preventive behaviors. These results provide evidence that scanned information exposure measures are valid indicators of the construct. Researchers might consider their use to capture scanned media influence on cognitions and behaviors.
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