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Evidence that Mental Contrasting Reduces Health Information Avoidance
Annals of Behavioral Medicine, 2023Abstract Background Although learning health information is beneficial for physical well-being, many people opt to avoid learning this information due to its potentially threatening nature.
Sheeran, Paschal +3 more
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Information Seeking and Avoiding in Health Contexts
Human Communication Research, 2002Information management is an important component of coping with illness and illness-related uncertainty. Normative theory and research on information seeking and avoiding in health contexts can help explain why some information management activities are more adaptive than others.
Dale E. Brashers +2 more
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Journal of Health Communication, 2012
This study investigated why and how individuals avoid health information to support the development of models of uncertainty and information management and offer insights for those dealing with the information and uncertainty inherent to health and illness.
Joshua B, Barbour +3 more
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This study investigated why and how individuals avoid health information to support the development of models of uncertainty and information management and offer insights for those dealing with the information and uncertainty inherent to health and illness.
Joshua B, Barbour +3 more
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The role of powerful audiences in health information avoidance
Social Science & Medicine, 2019Although people may want to learn information, concerns about how audiences (persons or entities privy to one's behavior or information) might respond may motivate people to avoid information that audiences could use to threaten resources or harm them.We examined whether powerful audiences prompt health risk information avoidance.We tested in two ...
Nikolette P. Lipsey, James A. Shepperd
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Agency beliefs are associated with lower health information avoidance
Health Education Journal, 2020Background: Avoiding health information is relatively common and is associated with lower knowledge of health risks and lower engagement in protective health behaviour. Health information avoidance likely limits the effectiveness of health communication interventions.
Heather Orom +4 more
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A spectrum of approaches to health information interaction: From avoidance to verification
Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, 2019AbstractPeople respond to illness in a range of ways, and take different approaches to engaging with health information throughout the course of their illness. This study describes and explains the variety of approaches to health information interactions made by patients on hemodialysis.
Kaitlin L. Costello, Tiffany C. Veinot
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Replication_Instructions – Coping self-efficacy influences health information avoidance
2020Replication_Instructions for Coping self-efficacy influences health information avoidance by Jacqueline Hua and Jennifer L.
Hua, Jacqueline, Howell, Jennifer L.
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Reducing Health Information Avoidance by Mental Contrasting
2020Objective: Staying informed on one’s health is critical for positive health outcomes. However, the possibility of receiving bad news leads many people (via both deliberate and automatic processes) to opt out of learning personal health information. The self-regulation exercise of mental contrasting has helped people improve a vast range of behaviors ...
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