Maria Brann
Biographic Data
| ID | 149478 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Maria Brann |
| GIVEN NAMES | Maria |
| FAMILY NAME | Brann |
| SIGNATURE | BRANN M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Indiana University – Purdue University Indianapolis |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9820-4145 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 22 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
“We Don’t Get Drugs Targeted for Us
14) who had participated in a breast cancer clinical trial. This study aimed to better understand what may motivate Black women to engage in medical research and decide to participate in medical research. Findings revealed that Black women's altruistic desires to serve others and their communities are greatly influenced by the need to leave a "legacy" of better treatment for other Black women. The participants mostly learned about clinical trials…
“It’s Not an Intervention; It’s a Philosophy”
Pregnancy after perinatal loss is a stressful experience that requires special attention from health care providers during prenatal appointments. However, research suggests that such care is often lacking. Communication scholars are uniquely positioned to explore the types of communication behaviors patients prefer during this period. In individual and group interviews with 16 women who had experienced perinatal loss, we used a series of vignette…
I Delivered With a Team Where I Recognized No One”
The COVID-19 pandemic brought significant changes to obstetric care, leading to decreased interactions, heightened medical interventions, and restricted support for birthing individuals, which in turn increased the risk of maternal and infant health concerns. This study investigated how birth stories from individuals who gave birth during the pandemic reflected their relational orientation toward healthcare providers, using Martin Buber’s I-It an…
Narrative Sense-Making During Covid-19
Women who gave birth in the spring and summer of 2020 contended with a host of challenging factors. In addition to facing pregnancy, labor, and delivery during an emerging global pandemic, women grappled with health care restrictions that altered their birth experience. To explore how women made sense of their birth during COVID-19, we analyzed written narratives from 71 women who gave birth in the United States from March to July 2020. Based on …
Essential instructional communication concepts for effective health campaigns
Many scholars recognized the failed communication strategies of government and public health officials across the world during the COVID-19 pandemic. For example, Ndlangamandla et al. (2024) discus
“I’m Not Comfortable With Covid, But ...”
Individuals have faced unprecedented uncertainty and risk surrounding the COVID-19 pandemic, and decision-making dilemmas have been complicated by quickly evolving and often contradictory recommendations for staying healthy. Using tenets of problematic integration theory and risk orders theory, we analyzed interview data from 50 mothers who gave birth during the pandemic to understand how uncertainty and risk perceptions shaped their decision-mak…
Am I Broken
The performance offered a safe environment for attendees to learn, understand, and process infertility's complex nature. Creating awareness influenced participants' perceptions and communicative behaviors
I’m not sure I’ll ever forget the experience”
In August 2020, celebrity Chrissy Teigen shared on social media that she was pregnant with her third child. The following month, Teigen used social media to document her pregnancy complications. On September 30, 2020, Teigen posted five black and white photographs via Instagram that chronicled the emotional and physical pain of a miscarriage. One month later, Teigen published an online essay describing the circumstances surrounding her miscarriag…
‘Had I gone into the office, they would have caught it a little bit sooner’
Individuals who gave birth during the COVID-19 pandemic experienced an increased risk for premature births, stillbirths, depression, and lower access to care. Their stories provide valuable information that can inform clinical care, particularly due to loss of in-person support resulting from visitor restrictions in hospitals. Grounded in a theory of narrative problematics, we explored how elicited birth narratives were affected by COVID-19 and h…
Rethinking graduate student socialization and identification
Almost 20 years ago, Nyquist (2002) wrote, "the university's most important product is not expertise, research, knowledge, information, or service.It is the student" (p.14).Nyquist's multidisciplinary effort to re-envision graduate education illustrated its import and variability in the United States.Since then, the landscape of higher education has changed dramatically (Carey, 2020).Economic and social forces (both internal and external to highe…
“Our Birth Experiences are What Binds Us”
Childbirth is widely considered to be a bonding experience among women. Women often feel compelled to share their story, and this research highlights communicative and reflexive aspects of storytelling as a means for meaning-making and relationship-building. This inductive thematic analysis explored 22 women’s motivations for engaging in storytelling about birth across five focus groups and two one-on-one interviews. Findings demonstrate one prim…
Qualitative Assessment of Bad News Delivery Practices during Miscarriage Diagnosis
Miscarriage is one of the most common pregnancy complications health care providers discuss with patients. Previous research suggests that women's distress is compounded by ineffective communication with providers, who are usually not trained to deliver bad news using patient-centered dialogue. The purpose of this study was to use a patient-centered approach to examine women's experiences with and perspectives of communication during a miscarriag…
Exploring societal-level privacy rules for talking about miscarriage
Communication privacy management (CPM) theory posits that culturally specific understandings of privacy guide how people manage private information in everyday conversations. We use the context of miscarriage to demonstrate how societal-level expectations about (in)appropriate topics of talk converge with micro-level decisions about privacy rules and privacy boundary management. More specifically, we explore how people's perceptions of broad soci…
Quantifying Coach Confirmation
The lack of appropriate measurement to assess athlete-coach interaction and athletes’ psychological states has historically plagued sport studies research (i.e., an encompassing term for sport psychology, management, sociology, and communication) and may partially explain the lack of empirical research regarding athlete-coach interaction within the emerging field of sport communication. Without valid and reliable tools to assess athlete-coach int…
Challenge Me!”
Confirmation theory is a theoretical framework that forwards that the communication of acceptance and challenge to recipients promotes prosocial environments that foster positive affect, attitudes, and behaviors. This study utilized confirmation theory to better understand the influence of coaches’ use of confirmation on athletes’ satisfaction and motivation to play their sport. Data collected from 132 former high school athletes indicated that t…
Flirtation Rejection Strategies
Single adults often seek successful flirtatious encounters; yet these encounters can sometimes be considered failures. However, little research has identified flirtation rejection strategies enacted by those not interested in reciprocal flirting. The purpose of this study was to examine behavioral and verbal flirtation rejection strategies among college students. Stemming from a grounded theory methodology and a focus group method, 21 college stu…
Father-Son Family Communication Patterns and Gender Ideologies
The purpose of this study was to advance father-son research by investigating family communication and gender ideologies. Specifically, the study assessed the specific messages fathers transmit to sons regarding gender ideologies, relationships between family communication patterns and gender ideologies, and the utility of modeling and compensation hypotheses in intergenerational transmission of these behaviors and ideologies. Finally, this study…
Recognizing HIV/Aids volunteers’ stressors and desire for support
Little research has focused on experiences of volunteers for people living with HIV/AIDS but other research on caregivers for this population illustrates the stress often experienced. This study identifies stressors experienced by volunteers for people with HIV/AIDS, and determines the types of social support needed to help volunteers cope with the stressors identified. Six volunteers were interviewed at a small non-profit organization in Appalac…
Exploring societal-level privacy rules for talking about miscarriage
Communication privacy management (CPM) theory posits that culturally specific understandings of privacy guide how people manage private information in everyday conversations. We use the context of miscarriage to demonstrate how societal-level expectations about (in)appropriate topics of talk converge with micro-level decisions about privacy rules and privacy boundary management. More specifically, we explore how people's perceptions of broad soci…
I’m not sure I’ll ever forget the experience”
In August 2020, celebrity Chrissy Teigen shared on social media that she was pregnant with her third child. The following month, Teigen used social media to document her pregnancy complications. On September 30, 2020, Teigen posted five black and white photographs via Instagram that chronicled the emotional and physical pain of a miscarriage. One month later, Teigen published an online essay describing the circumstances surrounding her miscarriag…
Qualitative Assessment of Bad News Delivery Practices during Miscarriage Diagnosis
Miscarriage is one of the most common pregnancy complications health care providers discuss with patients. Previous research suggests that women's distress is compounded by ineffective communication with providers, who are usually not trained to deliver bad news using patient-centered dialogue. The purpose of this study was to use a patient-centered approach to examine women's experiences with and perspectives of communication during a miscarriag…
Quantifying Coach Confirmation
The lack of appropriate measurement to assess athlete-coach interaction and athletes’ psychological states has historically plagued sport studies research (i.e., an encompassing term for sport psychology, management, sociology, and communication) and may partially explain the lack of empirical research regarding athlete-coach interaction within the emerging field of sport communication. Without valid and reliable tools to assess athlete-coach int…
Challenge Me!”
Confirmation theory is a theoretical framework that forwards that the communication of acceptance and challenge to recipients promotes prosocial environments that foster positive affect, attitudes, and behaviors. This study utilized confirmation theory to better understand the influence of coaches’ use of confirmation on athletes’ satisfaction and motivation to play their sport. Data collected from 132 former high school athletes indicated that t…
Father-Son Family Communication Patterns and Gender Ideologies
The purpose of this study was to advance father-son research by investigating family communication and gender ideologies. Specifically, the study assessed the specific messages fathers transmit to sons regarding gender ideologies, relationships between family communication patterns and gender ideologies, and the utility of modeling and compensation hypotheses in intergenerational transmission of these behaviors and ideologies. Finally, this study…
Flirtation Rejection Strategies
Single adults often seek successful flirtatious encounters; yet these encounters can sometimes be considered failures. However, little research has identified flirtation rejection strategies enacted by those not interested in reciprocal flirting. The purpose of this study was to examine behavioral and verbal flirtation rejection strategies among college students. Stemming from a grounded theory methodology and a focus group method, 21 college stu…
Recognizing HIV/Aids volunteers’ stressors and desire for support
Little research has focused on experiences of volunteers for people living with HIV/AIDS but other research on caregivers for this population illustrates the stress often experienced. This study identifies stressors experienced by volunteers for people with HIV/AIDS, and determines the types of social support needed to help volunteers cope with the stressors identified. Six volunteers were interviewed at a small non-profit organization in Appalac…
Father-Son Family Communication Patterns and Gender Ideologies
The purpose of this study was to advance father-son research by investigating family communication and gender ideologies. Specifically, the study assessed the specific messages fathers transmit to sons regarding gender ideologies, relationships between family communication patterns and gender ideologies, and the utility of modeling and compensation hypotheses in intergenerational transmission of these behaviors and ideologies. Finally, this study…
Flirtation Rejection Strategies
Single adults often seek successful flirtatious encounters; yet these encounters can sometimes be considered failures. However, little research has identified flirtation rejection strategies enacted by those not interested in reciprocal flirting. The purpose of this study was to examine behavioral and verbal flirtation rejection strategies among college students. Stemming from a grounded theory methodology and a focus group method, 21 college stu…
Quantifying Coach Confirmation
The lack of appropriate measurement to assess athlete-coach interaction and athletes’ psychological states has historically plagued sport studies research (i.e., an encompassing term for sport psychology, management, sociology, and communication) and may partially explain the lack of empirical research regarding athlete-coach interaction within the emerging field of sport communication. Without valid and reliable tools to assess athlete-coach int…
Challenge Me!”
Confirmation theory is a theoretical framework that forwards that the communication of acceptance and challenge to recipients promotes prosocial environments that foster positive affect, attitudes, and behaviors. This study utilized confirmation theory to better understand the influence of coaches’ use of confirmation on athletes’ satisfaction and motivation to play their sport. Data collected from 132 former high school athletes indicated that t…
Exploring societal-level privacy rules for talking about miscarriage
Communication privacy management (CPM) theory posits that culturally specific understandings of privacy guide how people manage private information in everyday conversations. We use the context of miscarriage to demonstrate how societal-level expectations about (in)appropriate topics of talk converge with micro-level decisions about privacy rules and privacy boundary management. More specifically, we explore how people's perceptions of broad soci…
“Our Birth Experiences are What Binds Us”
Childbirth is widely considered to be a bonding experience among women. Women often feel compelled to share their story, and this research highlights communicative and reflexive aspects of storytelling as a means for meaning-making and relationship-building. This inductive thematic analysis explored 22 women’s motivations for engaging in storytelling about birth across five focus groups and two one-on-one interviews. Findings demonstrate one prim…
Qualitative Assessment of Bad News Delivery Practices during Miscarriage Diagnosis
Miscarriage is one of the most common pregnancy complications health care providers discuss with patients. Previous research suggests that women's distress is compounded by ineffective communication with providers, who are usually not trained to deliver bad news using patient-centered dialogue. The purpose of this study was to use a patient-centered approach to examine women's experiences with and perspectives of communication during a miscarriag…
Rethinking graduate student socialization and identification
Almost 20 years ago, Nyquist (2002) wrote, "the university's most important product is not expertise, research, knowledge, information, or service.It is the student" (p.14).Nyquist's multidisciplinary effort to re-envision graduate education illustrated its import and variability in the United States.Since then, the landscape of higher education has changed dramatically (Carey, 2020).Economic and social forces (both internal and external to highe…
‘Had I gone into the office, they would have caught it a little bit sooner’
Individuals who gave birth during the COVID-19 pandemic experienced an increased risk for premature births, stillbirths, depression, and lower access to care. Their stories provide valuable information that can inform clinical care, particularly due to loss of in-person support resulting from visitor restrictions in hospitals. Grounded in a theory of narrative problematics, we explored how elicited birth narratives were affected by COVID-19 and h…
I’m not sure I’ll ever forget the experience”
In August 2020, celebrity Chrissy Teigen shared on social media that she was pregnant with her third child. The following month, Teigen used social media to document her pregnancy complications. On September 30, 2020, Teigen posted five black and white photographs via Instagram that chronicled the emotional and physical pain of a miscarriage. One month later, Teigen published an online essay describing the circumstances surrounding her miscarriag…
Narrative Sense-Making During Covid-19
Women who gave birth in the spring and summer of 2020 contended with a host of challenging factors. In addition to facing pregnancy, labor, and delivery during an emerging global pandemic, women grappled with health care restrictions that altered their birth experience. To explore how women made sense of their birth during COVID-19, we analyzed written narratives from 71 women who gave birth in the United States from March to July 2020. Based on …
Essential instructional communication concepts for effective health campaigns
Many scholars recognized the failed communication strategies of government and public health officials across the world during the COVID-19 pandemic. For example, Ndlangamandla et al. (2024) discus
“I’m Not Comfortable With Covid, But ...”
Individuals have faced unprecedented uncertainty and risk surrounding the COVID-19 pandemic, and decision-making dilemmas have been complicated by quickly evolving and often contradictory recommendations for staying healthy. Using tenets of problematic integration theory and risk orders theory, we analyzed interview data from 50 mothers who gave birth during the pandemic to understand how uncertainty and risk perceptions shaped their decision-mak…
Am I Broken
The performance offered a safe environment for attendees to learn, understand, and process infertility's complex nature. Creating awareness influenced participants' perceptions and communicative behaviors
“We Don’t Get Drugs Targeted for Us
14) who had participated in a breast cancer clinical trial. This study aimed to better understand what may motivate Black women to engage in medical research and decide to participate in medical research. Findings revealed that Black women's altruistic desires to serve others and their communities are greatly influenced by the need to leave a "legacy" of better treatment for other Black women. The participants mostly learned about clinical trials…
“It’s Not an Intervention; It’s a Philosophy”
Pregnancy after perinatal loss is a stressful experience that requires special attention from health care providers during prenatal appointments. However, research suggests that such care is often lacking. Communication scholars are uniquely positioned to explore the types of communication behaviors patients prefer during this period. In individual and group interviews with 16 women who had experienced perinatal loss, we used a series of vignette…
I Delivered With a Team Where I Recognized No One”
The COVID-19 pandemic brought significant changes to obstetric care, leading to decreased interactions, heightened medical interventions, and restricted support for birthing individuals, which in turn increased the risk of maternal and infant health concerns. This study investigated how birth stories from individuals who gave birth during the pandemic reflected their relational orientation toward healthcare providers, using Martin Buber’s I-It an…
Psychology (18 works) · Social Psychology (11 works) · Grief, Bereavement, and Mental Health (9 works) · Medicine (8 works) · Social Psychology (8 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Computer Science (6 works) · Political science (6 works) · Pregnancy (6 works) · Narrative (5 works)