Roxanne Parrott
Biographic Data
| ID | 77405 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Roxanne Parrott |
| GIVEN NAMES | Roxanne |
| FAMILY NAME | Parrott |
| SIGNATURE | PARROTT R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Pennsylvania State University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 38 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 137 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 36 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1987 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
The Oxford Encyclopedia of Health and Risk Message Design and Processing
134 scholarly articles This Encyclopedia has been compiled as an up-to-date and comprehensive theoretically guided work in health and risk communication. Research and practice dedicated to communicating about health and risk to lay audiences grows exponentially with the availability of scientific knowledge on the subject. This work seeks to ensure that what is communicated is not only scientifically accurate but also avoids any partial informatio…
Multidisciplinary, Interdisciplinary, and Transdisciplinary Approaches to Health Communication
Communicating about family health history
Family health history is the genetic and ecological contributions and interactions, or what others may refer to as the genomic and bionomic inputs, affecting the life course of family members. The adage to ‘know your family history’ promoted in public health and clinical settings emphasises having awareness of first and second degree relatives’ health status, including causes and outcomes of morbidity and mortality. An overarching aim of promotin…
Barriers to CRC Screening Among Latino Adults in Pennsylvania
A targeted approach for CRC screening among Latinos may be better than the nontargeted approach
Mental representations of HPV in Appalachia
Media coverage has emphasized human papillomavirus (HPV) as a vaccine-preventable, sexually transmitted virus causing cervical cancer. Appalachian undergraduate students ( N = 309, 50% female) were surveyed on their knowledge of HPV; analyses of mental representations were similar to content analyses of media coverage of HPV, suggesting media cultivation. Semantic network analysis revealed linkages between vaccine, disease causation and preventio…
Expressing Emotions as Evidence in Osteoporosis Narratives
This study examined the use of different narratives expressing positive or negative emotions, and varying the narrator's perspective on the arousal of discrete emotions, dominant cognitions, perceived evidence quality, and perceived message effectiveness related to osteoporosis behavioral intentions. Formative research led to the creation of narratives and selection of positive and negative emotions expressed. A 4 × 3 between-subjects posttest de…
Point of Practice
A review of my research in health communication leads to the presentation of eight insights that may be applied to the practice of health communication. The significance of collaboration and work in health communication practice settings, ranging from public health departments, to clinics, to participation in the Institute of Medicine guides the discussion of three broad principles that inform my health communication research. In both cases, a co…
The Routledge Handbook of Health Communication
Design of the Central Pennsylvania Women’s Health Study (CePAWHS) Strong Healthy Women Intervention
Improving Women's Preconceptional Health
Women’s Perceived Control of Their Birth Outcomes in the Central Pennsylvania Women’s Health Study
Preconceptional health
Risk Comprehension and Judgments of Statistical Evidentiary Appeals
Journal Article Risk Comprehension and Judgments of Statistical Evidentiary Appeals: When a Picture is Not Worth a Thousand Words Get access Roxanne Parrott, Roxanne Parrott 1Pennsylvania State University 5Department of Communication Arts and Sciences, Pennsylvania State University, 206 Sparks Building, University Park, PA 16802 Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Kami Silk, Kami Silk 2Michigan State Universit…
Risk Comprehension and Judgments of Statistical Evidentiary Appeals
Too little theory and research has considered the effects of communicating statistics in various forms on comprehension, perceptions of evidence quality, or evaluations of message persuasiveness. In a considered extension of Subjective Message Construct Theory (Morley, 1987), we advance a rationale relating evidence form to the formation of impressions of evidence. We compare visual versus verbal representations of statistical evidence associated…
Family Communication and Genetic Health
A survey (N = 717) was conducted to explore African Americans (n = 267) and European Americans (n = 450) knowledge, attitudes, and behaviors associated with human genetics and the interplay of family communication on such issues. Responses indicated significant race differences on familial discussions of medical history and familial encouragement to behave in healthy ways. However, there were no race differences on family conversations about gene…
Deriving Lay Models of Uncertainty About Genes' Role in Illness Causation to Guide Communication About Human Genetics
Advances in clinical genetics and biotechnology increase the ability to identify individual genetic makeup through genetic services and testing. As a result, genes have become the focus of an increasing number of health messages associated with medical interaction and public communication. This research explored public perceptions (N= 858) of the role of genes in health using problematic integration (PI) theory as a framework. A Genetic Relativis…
Deriving Lay Models of Uncertainty About Genes' Role in Illness Causation to Guide Communication About Human Genetics
Advances in clinical genetics and biotechnology increase the ability to identify individual genetic makeup through genetic services and testing. As a result, genes have become the focus of an increasing number of health messages associated with medical interaction and public communication. This research explored public perceptions (N= 858) of the role of genes in health using problematic integration (PI) theory as a framework. A Genetic Relativis…
The Role of “Genetics” in Popular Understandings of Race in the United States
The increase in public representation of the science-based concept “genetics” in the mass media might be expected to have a major impact on public understanding of the concept of “race.” A model of lay understandings of the role of genetics in the contemporary United States is offered based on focus group research, random digit dial surveys, and community based surveys. That model indicates that lay people identify race primarily by physical feat…
Emphasizing “Communication” in Health Communication
Emphasizing "Communication" in Health Communication Get access Roxanne Parrott Roxanne Parrott 1Roxanne Parrott (PhD, University of Arizona) is a faculty member in the Department of Communication Arts & Sciences at Pennsylvania State University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Communication, Volume 54, Issue 4, 1 December 2004, Pages 751–787, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1460-2466.2004.tb02653.x Pub…
Perceived Levels of Health Risk Associated with Linguistic Descriptors and Type of Disease
To guide communication with lay people about levels of genetic risk, this exploratory study employs a written survey to assess whether different levels of perceived risk were associated with varying the terminology used to describe the nature of risk associated with genes and several diseases. Results indicate that for lay participants (N = 243), there is a statistically significant difference in the level of risk associated with the terminology …
African Americans' opinions about human-genetics research
Our data suggest that most Americans trust government to act ethically in sponsoring and conducting research, including genetics research, but that African Americans are particularly likely to see government as powerfully protective in some settings yet selectively disingenuous in others
The Routledge Handbook of Health Communication
Handbook of Health Communication
When the Worlds of Work and Wellness Collide
This project investigates the impact of families' information-giving on farmers' (N = 448) sun protective behavior. Farm families' expectancies significantly predicted farmers' use of sunscreen and protective clothing while working in the sun. Farmers whose families expected them to protect themselves while working in the sun were more likely to protect themselves. Additionally, farmers' knowledge and families' information-giving about skin cance…
Hope and Despair in Pandora's Box
African American and white women (N = 39) were interviewed about reproductive rewards and risks regarding genetics information and technologies. Analysis of their talk reflected several important themes. Emergent “reward” themes included the would-be parents' reproductive decision-making, preparation, and prevention. “Risk” themes, which were more predominant than reward themes, included genetic information as stress producing, “child-designing” …
The Routledge Handbook of Health Communication
Maintaining and Restoring Privacy through Communication in Different Types of Relationships
This investigation analysed the kinds of communicative acts that are considered privacy-invading, which communication strategies are used to restore privacy when it has been violated and how relationship type affects communication of privacy. A preliminary self-report survey and a pilot study employing open-ended interviews (n=43) led to the development of a questionnaire in which respondents (n=444) rated 39 possible actions on invasiveness and …
Diversity in lay perceptions of the sources of human traits
Relational communication, satisfaction, compliance‐gaining strategies, and compliance in communication between physicians and patients
Six themes of physicians' relational communication were hypothesized to predict patients' satisfaction and compliance, to relate to strategies used by physicians to gain compliance, and to relate to frequency of physician‐patient contact. Telephone interviews with 234 adults who had seen a primary care physician within the previous six months confirmed that perceived relational communication was strongly related to affective, cognitive, and behav…
Privacy between physicians and patients
An Exploratory Study of the Impact of News Headlines on Genetic Determinism
Critics have suggested that news headlines about genetics with inappropriately deterministic content will produce increased levels of determinism in the public, even when news article contents are not highly deterministic. This might result from a replacement effect (headlines stand in for the content of the article because few people read it fully) or from a framing effect (headlines frame the interpretation of the article content). A quantitati…
Communicating to Farmers About Skin Cancer The Behavior Adaptation Model
Journal Article Communicating to Farmers About Skin Cancer: The Behavior Adaptation Model Get access Roxanne Parrott, Roxanne Parrott 1Roxanne Parrott, Ph.D., is an associate professor in the Department of Speech Communication at the University of Georgia Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Jennifer Monahan, Jennifer Monahan 2Jennifer Monahan, Ph.D., is an assistant professor in the Department of Speech Commun…
Expressing Emotions as Evidence in Osteoporosis Narratives
This study examined the use of different narratives expressing positive or negative emotions, and varying the narrator's perspective on the arousal of discrete emotions, dominant cognitions, perceived evidence quality, and perceived message effectiveness related to osteoporosis behavioral intentions. Formative research led to the creation of narratives and selection of positive and negative emotions expressed. A 4 × 3 between-subjects posttest de…
Perceived Levels of Health Risk Associated with Linguistic Descriptors and Type of Disease
To guide communication with lay people about levels of genetic risk, this exploratory study employs a written survey to assess whether different levels of perceived risk were associated with varying the terminology used to describe the nature of risk associated with genes and several diseases. Results indicate that for lay participants (N = 243), there is a statistically significant difference in the level of risk associated with the terminology …
African Americans' opinions about human-genetics research
Our data suggest that most Americans trust government to act ethically in sponsoring and conducting research, including genetics research, but that African Americans are particularly likely to see government as powerfully protective in some settings yet selectively disingenuous in others
Family Communication and Genetic Health
A survey (N = 717) was conducted to explore African Americans (n = 267) and European Americans (n = 450) knowledge, attitudes, and behaviors associated with human genetics and the interplay of family communication on such issues. Responses indicated significant race differences on familial discussions of medical history and familial encouragement to behave in healthy ways. However, there were no race differences on family conversations about gene…
Hope and Despair in Pandora's Box
African American and white women (N = 39) were interviewed about reproductive rewards and risks regarding genetics information and technologies. Analysis of their talk reflected several important themes. Emergent “reward” themes included the would-be parents' reproductive decision-making, preparation, and prevention. “Risk” themes, which were more predominant than reward themes, included genetic information as stress producing, “child-designing” …
Mental representations of HPV in Appalachia
Media coverage has emphasized human papillomavirus (HPV) as a vaccine-preventable, sexually transmitted virus causing cervical cancer. Appalachian undergraduate students ( N = 309, 50% female) were surveyed on their knowledge of HPV; analyses of mental representations were similar to content analyses of media coverage of HPV, suggesting media cultivation. Semantic network analysis revealed linkages between vaccine, disease causation and preventio…
When the Worlds of Work and Wellness Collide
This project investigates the impact of families' information-giving on farmers' (N = 448) sun protective behavior. Farm families' expectancies significantly predicted farmers' use of sunscreen and protective clothing while working in the sun. Farmers whose families expected them to protect themselves while working in the sun were more likely to protect themselves. Additionally, farmers' knowledge and families' information-giving about skin cance…
Lay Understandings of Sex/Gender and Genetics
Relational communication, satisfaction, compliance‐gaining strategies, and compliance in communication between physicians and patients
Six themes of physicians' relational communication were hypothesized to predict patients' satisfaction and compliance, to relate to strategies used by physicians to gain compliance, and to relate to frequency of physician‐patient contact. Telephone interviews with 234 adults who had seen a primary care physician within the previous six months confirmed that perceived relational communication was strongly related to affective, cognitive, and behav…
Privacy between physicians and patients
Maintaining and Restoring Privacy through Communication in Different Types of Relationships
This investigation analysed the kinds of communicative acts that are considered privacy-invading, which communication strategies are used to restore privacy when it has been violated and how relationship type affects communication of privacy. A preliminary self-report survey and a pilot study employing open-ended interviews (n=43) led to the development of a questionnaire in which respondents (n=444) rated 39 possible actions on invasiveness and …
Negotiating Child Health Care Routines during Paediatrician-Parent Conversations
Paediatrician-parent conversation is examined, using an adapted Bargaining Process Analysis coding scheme to determine how interactants sustain traditional roles versus encourage mutual involvement. Findings demonstrate that paediatricians rely on use of requests, whereas parents often use confirming messages. During interactions in which parents present specific concerns to paediatricians who address those concerns, parents use more requests tha…
Clarifying boundary conditions and extending the motives for nonimmediate language use
This study examines, in empirical and theoretical terms, the notion of verbal immediacy taken from the discipline of communication and Wiener and Mehrabian's (1968) work. Physicians' role experience and gender were found to predict nonimmediate language use, with experience being positively related to use of spatial nonimmediacy and automatic phrases. Gender and experience interact to predict physicians' use of temporal, implicit, and qualified n…
Competencies for the Health Communication Specialist of the 21st Century
This article reports the results of an expert working group convened to define competencies required to function effectively as a health communication specialist. Participants were surveyed before the working group meeting on a range of issues related to training master's-level public health communication specialists. Survey responses were used to initiate the discussion at a subsequent two-day working group meeting. Survey and working group resu…
Georgia's Harvesting Healthy Habits
Occupational safety and health researchers seek to conduct effective cancer awareness campaigns to increase agricultural workers' skin cancer prevention and detection behaviors. Georgia undertook such a project using a social cognitive theory (Bandura, 1986) conceptual model, with its objectives focusing on personal determinants of and environmental influences on farmers' behavior. One underused strategy to increase the success of health campaign…
Advocate or adversary
(1996). Advocate or adversary?: The self‐reflexive roles of media messages for health. Critical Studies in Mass Communication: Vol. 13, No. 3, pp. 266-278
Communicating to Farmers About Skin Cancer The Behavior Adaptation Model
Journal Article Communicating to Farmers About Skin Cancer: The Behavior Adaptation Model Get access Roxanne Parrott, Roxanne Parrott 1Roxanne Parrott, Ph.D., is an associate professor in the Department of Speech Communication at the University of Georgia Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Jennifer Monahan, Jennifer Monahan 2Jennifer Monahan, Ph.D., is an assistant professor in the Department of Speech Commun…
An Exploratory Study of the Impact of News Headlines on Genetic Determinism
Critics have suggested that news headlines about genetics with inappropriately deterministic content will produce increased levels of determinism in the public, even when news article contents are not highly deterministic. This might result from a replacement effect (headlines stand in for the content of the article because few people read it fully) or from a framing effect (headlines frame the interpretation of the article content). A quantitati…
Lay understandings of the relationship between race and genetics
Throughout the past century, research into human genetics revealed the relationships between biochemistry and various human characteristics in increasing detail. At each step of this path of discovery, social critics warned that knowledge of genetics, and especially social attention to genetics, might heighten racist attitudes. In light of these warnings and the recent sequencing of the Human Genome, it is important to inquire into the interpreta…
The Routledge Handbook of Health Communication
Handbook of Health Communication
When the Worlds of Work and Wellness Collide
This project investigates the impact of families' information-giving on farmers' (N = 448) sun protective behavior. Farm families' expectancies significantly predicted farmers' use of sunscreen and protective clothing while working in the sun. Farmers whose families expected them to protect themselves while working in the sun were more likely to protect themselves. Additionally, farmers' knowledge and families' information-giving about skin cance…
Hope and Despair in Pandora's Box
African American and white women (N = 39) were interviewed about reproductive rewards and risks regarding genetics information and technologies. Analysis of their talk reflected several important themes. Emergent “reward” themes included the would-be parents' reproductive decision-making, preparation, and prevention. “Risk” themes, which were more predominant than reward themes, included genetic information as stress producing, “child-designing” …
Lay Understandings of Sex/Gender and Genetics
Diversity in lay perceptions of the sources of human traits
Deriving Lay Models of Uncertainty About Genes' Role in Illness Causation to Guide Communication About Human Genetics
Advances in clinical genetics and biotechnology increase the ability to identify individual genetic makeup through genetic services and testing. As a result, genes have become the focus of an increasing number of health messages associated with medical interaction and public communication. This research explored public perceptions (N= 858) of the role of genes in health using problematic integration (PI) theory as a framework. A Genetic Relativis…
Deriving Lay Models of Uncertainty About Genes' Role in Illness Causation to Guide Communication About Human Genetics
Advances in clinical genetics and biotechnology increase the ability to identify individual genetic makeup through genetic services and testing. As a result, genes have become the focus of an increasing number of health messages associated with medical interaction and public communication. This research explored public perceptions (N= 858) of the role of genes in health using problematic integration (PI) theory as a framework. A Genetic Relativis…
The Role of “Genetics” in Popular Understandings of Race in the United States
The increase in public representation of the science-based concept “genetics” in the mass media might be expected to have a major impact on public understanding of the concept of “race.” A model of lay understandings of the role of genetics in the contemporary United States is offered based on focus group research, random digit dial surveys, and community based surveys. That model indicates that lay people identify race primarily by physical feat…
Emphasizing “Communication” in Health Communication
Emphasizing "Communication" in Health Communication Get access Roxanne Parrott Roxanne Parrott 1Roxanne Parrott (PhD, University of Arizona) is a faculty member in the Department of Communication Arts & Sciences at Pennsylvania State University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Communication, Volume 54, Issue 4, 1 December 2004, Pages 751–787, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1460-2466.2004.tb02653.x Pub…
Perceived Levels of Health Risk Associated with Linguistic Descriptors and Type of Disease
To guide communication with lay people about levels of genetic risk, this exploratory study employs a written survey to assess whether different levels of perceived risk were associated with varying the terminology used to describe the nature of risk associated with genes and several diseases. Results indicate that for lay participants (N = 243), there is a statistically significant difference in the level of risk associated with the terminology …
African Americans' opinions about human-genetics research
Our data suggest that most Americans trust government to act ethically in sponsoring and conducting research, including genetics research, but that African Americans are particularly likely to see government as powerfully protective in some settings yet selectively disingenuous in others
Risk Comprehension and Judgments of Statistical Evidentiary Appeals
Journal Article Risk Comprehension and Judgments of Statistical Evidentiary Appeals: When a Picture is Not Worth a Thousand Words Get access Roxanne Parrott, Roxanne Parrott 1Pennsylvania State University 5Department of Communication Arts and Sciences, Pennsylvania State University, 206 Sparks Building, University Park, PA 16802 Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Kami Silk, Kami Silk 2Michigan State Universit…
Risk Comprehension and Judgments of Statistical Evidentiary Appeals
Too little theory and research has considered the effects of communicating statistics in various forms on comprehension, perceptions of evidence quality, or evaluations of message persuasiveness. In a considered extension of Subjective Message Construct Theory (Morley, 1987), we advance a rationale relating evidence form to the formation of impressions of evidence. We compare visual versus verbal representations of statistical evidence associated…
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