Susan E Morgan
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 236731 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Susan E Morgan |
| NOMBRES | Susan E |
| APELLIDO | Morgan |
| FIRMA | MORGAN S E |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Miami |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8403-9484 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 25 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 89 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 25 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1996 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 6 |
Tensions Within Incentives, Altruism, and Trust in Clinical Trial Participation
This study employs the Integrated Model of Behavioral Prediction (IMBP) to investigate factors that influence African American and Black Caribbean patients' decisions to participate in clinical trials and research studies. It also offers recommendations for improving clinical trial recruitment processes through targeted interventions. Nine focus groups (N = 48 participants) involving patients and clinical research coordinators (CRCs) were conduct…
Reducing Health Disparities Among African American and Black Caribbean Patients by Improving the Communication Practices of Clinical Research Coordinators
This manuscript focuses on the communication factors that affect the willingness of African Americans and Black Caribbean patients to participate in clinical trials and research studies. Low rates of research participation by members of communities of color have long been linked to health disparities. While there are many factors that contribute to low rates of accrual of African American and Black patients to clinical trials, a lack of attention…
Examining uncertainty management in the clinical trial experiences of African American and Black Caribbean participants and the coordinators who recruit them
Clinical research studies experience low accrual rates for African American and Black Caribbean participants. These low rates could result in treatment regimens that are less effective for these groups. This study applied a communication lens to the decision-making processes that occur when the groups are being recruited for studies. Attention was paid to how participants managed their uncertainty in decision-making. Focus group discussions were …
Community-Based Participatory Research (CBPR) to Enhance Participation of Racial/Ethnic Minorities in Clinical Trials
The role of cognitive absorption in the persuasiveness of multimedia messages
Evaluating Culturally-targeted Fear Appeal Messages for HPV Self-Sampling among Jamaican Women
Despite the disproportionate burden of cervical cancer among Caribbean women, evaluations of targeted communication interventions to increase screening behaviors are sparsely represented in extant literature. Informed by data on the cognitive, affective and sociocultural factors associated with low cervical screening in the English-speaking island of Jamaica, the current study aimed to explore how theory-based message design, coupled with innovat…
What Motivates You to Share? The Effect of Interactive Tailored Information Aids on Information Sharing about Clinical Trials
Cancer patients learn about research studies outside of the clinical environment, including websites, print and online advertisements, and interpersonal interactions. When cancer patients share credible information about clinical trials, they also frequently help clarify misunderstandings that may exist in their social networks. The present study investigated how an interactive tailored information aid on clinical trial participation motivated pa…
Underrepresentation of Hispanics and Other Minorities in Clinical Trials
The Development and Validation of the Mood-based Indoor Tanning Scale
These findings demonstrate that moodbased tanning motivations are a strong predictor of indoor tanning intentions and behavior. Further, they suggest that health behavior researchers and healthcare practitioners can use the MITS to assess the extent to which mood-based motivations impact indoor tanning bed use
From Numbers to Words
Using New Technologies to Enhance Health Communication Research Methodology
Prospect Theory, Discrete Emotions, and Freedom Threats
Consistent with earlier research supporting the use of narratives to increase message persuasiveness, this study examined the role of guilt and happiness following exposure to organ donation narratives presented in professionally produced radio ads. As hypothesized, the loss-frame narrative was significantly associated with heightened guilt, which was related to greater freedom threat perceptions and psychological reactance. Conversely, the loss-…
Comparing tailored and narrative worksite interventions at increasing colonoscopy adherence in adults 50-75
Perceptions About Organ Donation Among African American, Hispanic, and White High School Students
We applied the Health Belief Model (HBM) to better understand perceptions of organ donation among African American, Hispanic, and White high school students. We conducted 14 focus groups with 18-year-old students to identify strategies to reach this audience when promoting the First-Person Consent Registry (FPCR) for organ donation. We found that African American, Hispanic, and White high school students are largely unaware of the need for organ …
Revisiting the Worksite in Worksite Health Campaigns
This article advances the beginnings of a general theory of organizational features to aid in understanding why health campaigns that work well in one organization may be ineffectual in another organization. The physical, social, and information structures of organizations are theorized to create an interaction environment that is distinct to each organization and that influences health campaigns. To test this argument, an organ donation campaign…
A Kernel of Truth? The Impact of Television Storylines Exploiting Myths About Organ Donation on the Public's Willingness to Donate
In this study, 580 participants viewed one of the 30 full-length entertainment television episodes. Fifteen of these episodes centered on an organ donation storyline (ODS) where facts about the process were portrayed inaccurately; the remaining 15 were matched by program, but did not feature organ donation, and served as controls. Results indicated nondonors were significantly impacted by negative organ-donation-related content. ODSs produced mor…
The Effectiveness of High- and Low-Intensity Worksite Campaigns to Promote Organ Donation
This study describes a worksite project designed to promote organ donation while testing the effectiveness of low-intensity (media-only) campaigns compared to high intensity campaigns (media+interpersonal communication), which incorporated on-site visits. All campaigns lasted 10 weeks. A total of 45 companies participated in the project, 15 in each quasi-experimental condition. Companies were counterbalanced by size of organization and industry t…
The Power of Narratives
Drawing on theories of social learning, social representations and the organ donation model, online surveys were used to examine the impact of organ donation storylines of 4 U.S. television dramas (CSI: NY, Numb3rs, House, and Grey’s Anatomy) on viewers’ attitudes, knowledge, and behaviors. Results revealed that viewers acquired knowledge from the content of each drama, despite the fact that some content was inaccurate. Viewers who were not organ…
The Intersection of Conversation, Cognitions, and Campaigns
Social representations theory (SRT) has been underused in the communication field. This theory helps explain the interrelationships between interpersonal communication, cognition, and the mass media, particularly in situations where a new phenomenon emerges that requires some kind of social response. Because organ donation is still poorly understood by the public, in large part because of entertainment television, SRT is well suited to helping re…
Facts versus `Feelings
Researchers are already aware that decision making about health issues is not necessarily driven by rational or cognitive-based decision-making processes. This appears to be especially true for the decision to donate organs. Although hints about what is actually driving the decision-making process are scattered throughout the literature, noncognitive factors have not been tested systematically. Structural equation modeling of data gathered from 4…
Examining the Decision to Talk with Family About Organ Donation
Research on organ donation suggests a strong association between family discussions about the issue and final organ donor status. However, very few studies have examined the factors that influence individuals’ willingness to talk directly to their family about this topic or the impact of these discussions. This investigation provides a partial test of a newly developed theory of information management to better understand the processes of family …
The Power of Talk
Because organ donation does not take place without the consent of next-of-kin and because family discussion is known to be the strongest predictor of consent to donate, transplant advocates have promoted family communication about organ donation, but without much success. Fewer than half of all people who are willing to be organ donors discuss their wishes with family members. Family discussions about donation in the African-American community ar…
Signing cards, saving lives
The desperate need for organ donors in the United States could be filled if every person eligible became an organ donor. Unfortunately, few organ donation campaigns exist, and fewer still have been evaluated empirically. This study has two objectives: to describe a worksite organ donation campaign and test campaign effects, and to test the Model of Behavioral Willingness to Donate Organs. Results of the campaign evaluation demonstrate that the wo…
Equipment Dealers’Perceptions of a Community‐based Rollover Protective Structures Promotion Campaign
Farming is one of the most hazardous occupations, and tractor overturns are the leading cause of agricultural fatalities. This article examines a community‐based injury intervention designed to increase the number of rollover protective structures (ROPS) and seat belts on tractors and to promote safe operation of farm tractors in two counties. Equipment dealers who sell retrofit ROPS kits to farmers were a critical component of the intervention. …
Place Matters
has written an important and original work that presents a well-substantiated challenge to many recent studies of 'colonial discourse'.--Nancy L. Paxton, Susan Morgan's study of materials and regions, previously neglected in contemporary postcolonial studies, begins with the transforming premise that matters. Concepts derived from writings about one area of the world cannot simply be transposed to another area, in some sort of global theoretical …
Facts versus `Feelings
Researchers are already aware that decision making about health issues is not necessarily driven by rational or cognitive-based decision-making processes. This appears to be especially true for the decision to donate organs. Although hints about what is actually driving the decision-making process are scattered throughout the literature, noncognitive factors have not been tested systematically. Structural equation modeling of data gathered from 4…
Examining the Decision to Talk with Family About Organ Donation
Research on organ donation suggests a strong association between family discussions about the issue and final organ donor status. However, very few studies have examined the factors that influence individuals’ willingness to talk directly to their family about this topic or the impact of these discussions. This investigation provides a partial test of a newly developed theory of information management to better understand the processes of family …
The Power of Talk
Because organ donation does not take place without the consent of next-of-kin and because family discussion is known to be the strongest predictor of consent to donate, transplant advocates have promoted family communication about organ donation, but without much success. Fewer than half of all people who are willing to be organ donors discuss their wishes with family members. Family discussions about donation in the African-American community ar…
The Intersection of Conversation, Cognitions, and Campaigns
Social representations theory (SRT) has been underused in the communication field. This theory helps explain the interrelationships between interpersonal communication, cognition, and the mass media, particularly in situations where a new phenomenon emerges that requires some kind of social response. Because organ donation is still poorly understood by the public, in large part because of entertainment television, SRT is well suited to helping re…
Signing cards, saving lives
The desperate need for organ donors in the United States could be filled if every person eligible became an organ donor. Unfortunately, few organ donation campaigns exist, and fewer still have been evaluated empirically. This study has two objectives: to describe a worksite organ donation campaign and test campaign effects, and to test the Model of Behavioral Willingness to Donate Organs. Results of the campaign evaluation demonstrate that the wo…
Place Matters
has written an important and original work that presents a well-substantiated challenge to many recent studies of 'colonial discourse'.--Nancy L. Paxton, Susan Morgan's study of materials and regions, previously neglected in contemporary postcolonial studies, begins with the transforming premise that matters. Concepts derived from writings about one area of the world cannot simply be transposed to another area, in some sort of global theoretical …
Comparing tailored and narrative worksite interventions at increasing colonoscopy adherence in adults 50-75
The Effectiveness of High- and Low-Intensity Worksite Campaigns to Promote Organ Donation
This study describes a worksite project designed to promote organ donation while testing the effectiveness of low-intensity (media-only) campaigns compared to high intensity campaigns (media+interpersonal communication), which incorporated on-site visits. All campaigns lasted 10 weeks. A total of 45 companies participated in the project, 15 in each quasi-experimental condition. Companies were counterbalanced by size of organization and industry t…
Underrepresentation of Hispanics and Other Minorities in Clinical Trials
Perceptions About Organ Donation Among African American, Hispanic, and White High School Students
We applied the Health Belief Model (HBM) to better understand perceptions of organ donation among African American, Hispanic, and White high school students. We conducted 14 focus groups with 18-year-old students to identify strategies to reach this audience when promoting the First-Person Consent Registry (FPCR) for organ donation. We found that African American, Hispanic, and White high school students are largely unaware of the need for organ …
Place Matters
has written an important and original work that presents a well-substantiated challenge to many recent studies of 'colonial discourse'.--Nancy L. Paxton, Susan Morgan's study of materials and regions, previously neglected in contemporary postcolonial studies, begins with the transforming premise that matters. Concepts derived from writings about one area of the world cannot simply be transposed to another area, in some sort of global theoretical …
Equipment Dealers’Perceptions of a Community‐based Rollover Protective Structures Promotion Campaign
Farming is one of the most hazardous occupations, and tractor overturns are the leading cause of agricultural fatalities. This article examines a community‐based injury intervention designed to increase the number of rollover protective structures (ROPS) and seat belts on tractors and to promote safe operation of farm tractors in two counties. Equipment dealers who sell retrofit ROPS kits to farmers were a critical component of the intervention. …
Signing cards, saving lives
The desperate need for organ donors in the United States could be filled if every person eligible became an organ donor. Unfortunately, few organ donation campaigns exist, and fewer still have been evaluated empirically. This study has two objectives: to describe a worksite organ donation campaign and test campaign effects, and to test the Model of Behavioral Willingness to Donate Organs. Results of the campaign evaluation demonstrate that the wo…
The Power of Talk
Because organ donation does not take place without the consent of next-of-kin and because family discussion is known to be the strongest predictor of consent to donate, transplant advocates have promoted family communication about organ donation, but without much success. Fewer than half of all people who are willing to be organ donors discuss their wishes with family members. Family discussions about donation in the African-American community ar…
Examining the Decision to Talk with Family About Organ Donation
Research on organ donation suggests a strong association between family discussions about the issue and final organ donor status. However, very few studies have examined the factors that influence individuals’ willingness to talk directly to their family about this topic or the impact of these discussions. This investigation provides a partial test of a newly developed theory of information management to better understand the processes of family …
Facts versus `Feelings
Researchers are already aware that decision making about health issues is not necessarily driven by rational or cognitive-based decision-making processes. This appears to be especially true for the decision to donate organs. Although hints about what is actually driving the decision-making process are scattered throughout the literature, noncognitive factors have not been tested systematically. Structural equation modeling of data gathered from 4…
The Power of Narratives
Drawing on theories of social learning, social representations and the organ donation model, online surveys were used to examine the impact of organ donation storylines of 4 U.S. television dramas (CSI: NY, Numb3rs, House, and Grey’s Anatomy) on viewers’ attitudes, knowledge, and behaviors. Results revealed that viewers acquired knowledge from the content of each drama, despite the fact that some content was inaccurate. Viewers who were not organ…
The Intersection of Conversation, Cognitions, and Campaigns
Social representations theory (SRT) has been underused in the communication field. This theory helps explain the interrelationships between interpersonal communication, cognition, and the mass media, particularly in situations where a new phenomenon emerges that requires some kind of social response. Because organ donation is still poorly understood by the public, in large part because of entertainment television, SRT is well suited to helping re…
A Kernel of Truth? The Impact of Television Storylines Exploiting Myths About Organ Donation on the Public's Willingness to Donate
In this study, 580 participants viewed one of the 30 full-length entertainment television episodes. Fifteen of these episodes centered on an organ donation storyline (ODS) where facts about the process were portrayed inaccurately; the remaining 15 were matched by program, but did not feature organ donation, and served as controls. Results indicated nondonors were significantly impacted by negative organ-donation-related content. ODSs produced mor…
The Effectiveness of High- and Low-Intensity Worksite Campaigns to Promote Organ Donation
This study describes a worksite project designed to promote organ donation while testing the effectiveness of low-intensity (media-only) campaigns compared to high intensity campaigns (media+interpersonal communication), which incorporated on-site visits. All campaigns lasted 10 weeks. A total of 45 companies participated in the project, 15 in each quasi-experimental condition. Companies were counterbalanced by size of organization and industry t…
Revisiting the Worksite in Worksite Health Campaigns
This article advances the beginnings of a general theory of organizational features to aid in understanding why health campaigns that work well in one organization may be ineffectual in another organization. The physical, social, and information structures of organizations are theorized to create an interaction environment that is distinct to each organization and that influences health campaigns. To test this argument, an organ donation campaign…
Perceptions About Organ Donation Among African American, Hispanic, and White High School Students
We applied the Health Belief Model (HBM) to better understand perceptions of organ donation among African American, Hispanic, and White high school students. We conducted 14 focus groups with 18-year-old students to identify strategies to reach this audience when promoting the First-Person Consent Registry (FPCR) for organ donation. We found that African American, Hispanic, and White high school students are largely unaware of the need for organ …
Comparing tailored and narrative worksite interventions at increasing colonoscopy adherence in adults 50-75
Using New Technologies to Enhance Health Communication Research Methodology
Prospect Theory, Discrete Emotions, and Freedom Threats
Consistent with earlier research supporting the use of narratives to increase message persuasiveness, this study examined the role of guilt and happiness following exposure to organ donation narratives presented in professionally produced radio ads. As hypothesized, the loss-frame narrative was significantly associated with heightened guilt, which was related to greater freedom threat perceptions and psychological reactance. Conversely, the loss-…
The Development and Validation of the Mood-based Indoor Tanning Scale
These findings demonstrate that moodbased tanning motivations are a strong predictor of indoor tanning intentions and behavior. Further, they suggest that health behavior researchers and healthcare practitioners can use the MITS to assess the extent to which mood-based motivations impact indoor tanning bed use
From Numbers to Words
Underrepresentation of Hispanics and Other Minorities in Clinical Trials
Evaluating Culturally-targeted Fear Appeal Messages for HPV Self-Sampling among Jamaican Women
Despite the disproportionate burden of cervical cancer among Caribbean women, evaluations of targeted communication interventions to increase screening behaviors are sparsely represented in extant literature. Informed by data on the cognitive, affective and sociocultural factors associated with low cervical screening in the English-speaking island of Jamaica, the current study aimed to explore how theory-based message design, coupled with innovat…
What Motivates You to Share? The Effect of Interactive Tailored Information Aids on Information Sharing about Clinical Trials
Cancer patients learn about research studies outside of the clinical environment, including websites, print and online advertisements, and interpersonal interactions. When cancer patients share credible information about clinical trials, they also frequently help clarify misunderstandings that may exist in their social networks. The present study investigated how an interactive tailored information aid on clinical trial participation motivated pa…
Community-Based Participatory Research (CBPR) to Enhance Participation of Racial/Ethnic Minorities in Clinical Trials
The role of cognitive absorption in the persuasiveness of multimedia messages
Examining uncertainty management in the clinical trial experiences of African American and Black Caribbean participants and the coordinators who recruit them
Clinical research studies experience low accrual rates for African American and Black Caribbean participants. These low rates could result in treatment regimens that are less effective for these groups. This study applied a communication lens to the decision-making processes that occur when the groups are being recruited for studies. Attention was paid to how participants managed their uncertainty in decision-making. Focus group discussions were …
Reducing Health Disparities Among African American and Black Caribbean Patients by Improving the Communication Practices of Clinical Research Coordinators
This manuscript focuses on the communication factors that affect the willingness of African Americans and Black Caribbean patients to participate in clinical trials and research studies. Low rates of research participation by members of communities of color have long been linked to health disparities. While there are many factors that contribute to low rates of accrual of African American and Black patients to clinical trials, a lack of attention…
Tensions Within Incentives, Altruism, and Trust in Clinical Trial Participation
This study employs the Integrated Model of Behavioral Prediction (IMBP) to investigate factors that influence African American and Black Caribbean patients' decisions to participate in clinical trials and research studies. It also offers recommendations for improving clinical trial recruitment processes through targeted interventions. Nine focus groups (N = 48 participants) involving patients and clinical research coordinators (CRCs) were conduct…
Psychology (20 obras) · Medicine (16 obras) · Social Psychology (12 obras) · Political science (11 obras) · Sociology (9 obras) · Organ donation (8 obras) · Transplantation (8 obras) · Donation (7 obras) · Computer Science (6 obras) · Grief, Bereavement, and Mental Health (6 obras)