ArticleJournal of community health2010
Media attention and public perceptions of cancer and eastern equine encephalitis.
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- Eastern Equine Encephalitis Virus: A Scoping Review of the Global Evidence.Vector borne and zoonotic diseases (Larchmont, N.Y.) · 2021Article
- Restaurant preventive behaviors and the role of media during a pandemic.International journal of hospitality management · 2021Article
- A Cross-Cultural Comparison of an Extended Planned Risk Information Seeking Model on Mental Health Among College Students: Cross-Sectional Study.Journal of medical Internet research · 2020Article
- 30+ years of media analysis of relevance to chronic disease: a scoping review.BMC public health · 2020Article
- Moderating effects of media exposure on associations between socioeconomic position and cancer worry.Asian Pacific journal of cancer prevention : APJCP · 2014Article
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Abstract
Previous research has found that members of the public have a skewed sense of health risk. The purpose of this research was to investigate how mass media use influences perceptions of threat from cancer and eastern equine encephalitis (EEE). Investigators performed a media content analysis of 253 health-related articles from 11 Massachusetts newspapers, then used logistic regression to analyze responses to a health communication survey of 613 Massachusetts adults. A greater proportion of cancer articles compared to those about EEE mentioned progress in combating the disease (61.0% vs. 16.2%, P < 0.0001), while a greater proportion of EEE articles mentioned new incidents of illness (35.4%, vs. 4.6% P < 0.0001). Over half of all respondents perceived EEE as an equal or greater threat than cancer. Paying a lot of attention to health media was related to higher odds of perceiving EEE as a threat (OR 2.14; 95% CI 1.03-4.45), and of perceiving EEE as a threat compared to cancer (OR 2.18; 95% CI 1.24-3.84). Media treatment of health stories that emphasize the novelty and unpredictability of EEE compared to cancer may lead to distorted perceptions of threat among news consumers.
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