Peter J Schulz
Biographic Data
| ID | 212248 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Peter J Schulz |
| GIVEN NAMES | Peter J |
| FAMILY NAME | Schulz |
| SIGNATURE | SCHULZ P J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Università della Svizzera italiana |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4281-489X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 55 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 45 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 54 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1975 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Do Parental Communication and Monitoring Counteract Substance Use in Adolescents? A Scoping Review of Dyadic Studies
In interpersonal research, it is often essential to consider multiple perspectives to fully capture the complexity of social relationships. For this reason, studies on the parent-child relationship frequently collect data from both parties. However, it remains unclear how such dyadic data are analyzed, and no systematic summary of findings currently exists. This scoping review examined studies that used dyadic data to explore the impact of parent…
On pessimism aversion in the context of artificial intelligence and locus of control
The present study sheds light on a new psychological construct called “AI pessimism aversion” (AIPA) describing an overly optimistic view of the benefits of AI by neglecting its potential dangers. In an international sample of N = 543 participants, we observed that the construct of AIPA strongly overlaps with single-item measures for positive and negative AI attitudes. Furthermore, the structural equation model suggests that the positive associat…
Clusters of Patient Empowerment and Mental Health Literacy Differentiate Professional Help‐Seeking Attitudes in Online Mental Health Communities Users
OBJECTIVES: Grounded in the Health Empowerment Model, which posits that health literacy and patient empowerment are intertwined yet distinct constructs, this study investigates how the interplay of these factors influences attitudes toward seeking professional psychological help in members of online communities for mental health (OCMHs). This while acknowledging the multidimensionality of patient empowerment, encompassing meaningfulness, competen…
The Distinct Impact of Perceived Peer Norms on the Development of Traditional and Cyber Aggression
Although peer norms significantly influence adolescents’ aggressive behaviors, little research compares their effects in online and offline contexts. Specifically, online contexts differ from traditional ones by enabling anonymity and amplifying behavior visibility. These characteristics could alter norm perceptions, reducing or increasing normative influence. This study tests this hypothesis by studying the longitudinal association of perceived …
Addressing the role of eHealth literacy in shaping popular attitudes towards post-Covid-19 vaccination among Chinese adults
This study examined the influence of eHealth literacy on Chinese individuals’ attitudes towards post-COVID-19 vaccination and explored methods to address obstacles related to eHealth literacy that could affect their comprehension and willingness to get vaccinated. In 2022, a web-based cross-sectional survey was conducted to assess the vaccination-related knowledge, attitudes and intentions of 950 participants. Vaccination knowledge was establishe…
Worse Than Ignorance
This Element considers health misinformation and the problems it presents. The evolving communication context—changing doctor-patient relationships and developments in information technology—presents patients with a vastly enriched information landscape and new challenges to patients navigating it. These challenges are magnified as growing patient empowerment and autonomy have increased expectations for patient involvement in medical decisions. I…
Modeling the influence of attitudes, trust, and beliefs on endoscopists’ acceptance of artificial intelligence applications in medical practice
Introduction: The potential for deployment of Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies in various fields of medicine is vast, yet acceptance of AI amongst clinicians has been patchy. This research therefore examines the role of antecedents, namely trust, attitude, and beliefs in driving AI acceptance in clinical practice. Methods: We utilized online surveys to gather data from clinicians in the field of gastroenterology. Results: = 153, 92.73%).…
“What does not kill you… mutates and tries again.” A study on personality determinants of post-traumatic growth during the Covid-19 pandemic
Introduction . The COVID-19 pandemic was recognized as a collective trauma and as a major threat to mental health. Recent literature focused on the stress symptomatology or post-traumatic stress disorder associated to the COVID-19 exposure. The concept that people have a natural inclination toward growth, even under stressful and threatening events, gathered less attention. Previous research has analyzed antecedents of post-traumatic growth (PTG)…
Make the invisible visible
Anti-Asian sentiment has undoubtedly increased since the COVID-19 pandemic began in early 2020. Violence against Asian populations has notably surged (Pillai et al., 2021). In 16 of the largest US
Buffering against exposure to mental health misinformation in online communities on Facebook
Results provide evidence that the more members reported being exposed to mental health misinformation, the more they tended to agree with it, however this was only visible when participants had lower depression literacy and were participating in peer-led OCMHs. Results of this study suggest that both internal factors (i.e., high depression literacy) and external factors (the type of online community individuals were participating in) can buffer t…
Perceived Covid-19 susceptibility and preventive behaviors
This study provides insights into how cognitive factors, such as susceptibility and severity, as well as social and environmental factors can be taken into account, and the public be told the real risk and given behavioral guidelines when a pandemic is approaching. Given the critical role of social support as a coping mechanism in crisis situations, societies should mull over ways to increase emotional and instrumental support
How do depression, duration of internet use and social connection in adolescence influence each other over time? An extension of the RI-CLPM including contextual factors
There are opposing views on the relationship between adolescents’ use of the Internet and their well-being, e.g. the Internet-enhanced self-disclosure hypothesis and the Evolutionary mismatch model, which give an opposite picture of the dynamics that may lead to positive versus adverse effects, respectively. Hence, the present paper aims to shed light on the bidirectional longitudinal relationships between the duration of Internet use, social con…
Do peer and parental norms influence media content-induced cyber aggression
Evidence from previous research indicates that media exposure can contribute to the development of aggressive behaviors, even in online contexts. However, media effects are known to depend on various dispositional, developmental, and contextual factors. The present study investigates in a longitudinal perspective whether social norms deriving from both parents and peers can reinforce or mitigate the impact of exposure to media content on cyber ag…
Effects of Perceived School Rule Enforcement on Traditional and Cyber Victimization
Traditional and cyber victimization can be considered similar in several respects, including the long-lasting damage done to the wellbeing of youth. However, it is important to acknowledge that they represent two clearly distinct phenomena and, as such, the impact of school rules on their development might differ. The present longitudinal study applies a multilevel model for a change approach to data resulting from a four-waves survey that follow…
Social capital and health information seeking in China
Social capital demonstrated significant and complex relationships with HISB in China. Structural social capital generally encouraged HISB in China, especially the bridging aspects including bridging networks and organization memberships. On the other hand, emotional support as cognitive social capital damaged people's initiatives in seeking health-related information
Parent-child Communication, Social Norms, and the Development of Cyber Aggression in Early Adolescence
To understand the development of cyber aggression during adolescence, it is important to consider the temporal variability of its potential predictors. This study uses a four-wave survey to investigate how changes in peer norms, parental norms, and parental communication are associated with two-year trajectories of online peer aggression. The sample includes 1521 Swiss middle school students (M age T1 = 11.54, SD = 0.40; 48% female). The results …
The Development and Testing of Balanced Communication Material for a Population-Based Breast Cancer Screening Program
Organized breast cancer screening (BCS) programs rely on written communication materials for achieving participation and informing women about screening-related benefits and limits. In order to achieve informed decisions and to maximize reader acceptance, the Agency for Health Protection of the metropolitan area of Milan aimed at improving the communication materials of the local BCS program through a multiphase, mixed-method process. Multidiscip…
Generation Gaps in Digital Health Literacy and Their Impact on Health Information Seeking Behavior and Health Empowerment in Hungary
Background: Today the internet is a major source of health information, and younger generations have more confidence in their digital information seeking skills and awareness of online resources than older generations. Older generations, however, are more in demand of health services. The aim of our study was to explore these generational differences as related to self-perceived eHealth literacy and health care system utilization. Methods: A cros…
News framing of e-cigarettes
This study explores the growing news coverage of e-cigarettes regarding, (a) how the arguments regarding e-cigarettes are presented in the print news media in the United States (US), United Kingdom (UK), and Korea; (b) which arguments were under-represented; and (c) to what extent scientific research shapes the arguments. Results suggest that the most salient argument in the US and UK was that e-cigarettes are less harmful (or “safer”) than regul…
Unsusceptible to Social Communication? The Fixture of the Factors Predicting Decisions on Different Vaccinations
Protection Motivation Theory (PMT) holds that individuals under threat base their protection decisions on threat and coping appraisals. In the case of preventable communicable diseases, the theory holds that motivation for vaccination will be higher the more alarming a person's threat appraisals and the more promising her coping appraisals are. This study aims at describing how the influence model of PMT accommodates different changes and conditi…
How smartphone use becomes problematic
Smartphones have become a ubiquitous part of adolescents' life, and studies have repeatedly revealed a positive association between smartphone use (SU) and problematic smartphone use (PSU). However, longitudinal research investigating the reciprocal relationship among SU and PSU during adolescence are scarce, and studies that take into consideration personality traits as predisposing factors are lacking. This study used survey data collected annu…
Comunicar em Saúde em Tempos de Pandemia
São inúmeras as reflexões que podem ser feitas neste contexto de disseminação do SARS-CoV-2. Esta edição dedicada a "Comunicar em Saúde em Tempos de Pandemia" apresenta artigos que oferecem uma visão sistémica daquilo que foi a comunicação e o jornalismo em período pandémico, nomeadamente durante o primeiro ano de disseminação do vírus SARS-CoV-2
Online Newspaper Framing of Non-Communicable Diseases
As non-communicable diseases (NCDs) are now well recognized as the leading cause of mortality among adult populations worldwide, they are also increasingly the focus of media coverage. As such, the objective of this study is to describe the framing of NCDs in the coverage of newspapers, with the understanding that it says something about the society producing it. Automatic content analysis was employed to examine disease topics, risks, and cost c…
Measurement invariance of the Short Wake Forest Physician Trust Scale and of the Health Empowerment Scale in German and French women
Measurement invariance is a crucial prerequisite to carry out cross-cultural research and to provide knowledge that enables culturally diverse patients to feel comfortable with their health providers. Although trust in doctors and health empowerment are widely studied, no previous research has examined their measurement invariance. The Short Wake Forest Physician Trust scale and the Health Empowerment scale were administered online. Participants …
Meningococcal disease in Italy
The findings suggest a role for the media in fostering public pressure towards health services and policy-makers. A collaboration between Public Health institutions and the media would be beneficial in order to improve communication with the public
Cyberbullying Perpetration and Victimization in Youth
Cyberbullying perpetration (CP) and victimization (CV) are prevalent issues in adolescent development. However, previous meta-analyses focused only on cross-sectional findings. The present study aims to meta-analytically summarize 56 longitudinal studies on CP, CV, and related factors in children and adolescents. Forty meta-analyses on CP and CV as both predictors and outcomes of person-related, Internet activity-related, and contextual factors w…
Interpersonal trust in doctor-patient relation
The social inequalities of Internet access, its use, and the impact on children’s academic performance
This longitudinal study explores differences in Internet access and use among school-aged children in Italian-speaking Switzerland and whether and how these differences contribute to inequalities in academic performance. Applying multilevel structural equation modeling with two-wave original survey data from 843 students, their parents, as well as students’ end-term school grades, we show that a family’s socio-economic status indirectly affects c…
Social Desirability Bias in Child-Report Social Well-Being
Online Health Information Seeking in the Context of the Medical Consultation in Switzerland
A growing number of patients search for medical information on the Internet. Understanding how they use the Internet is important, as this might impact their health, patient-practitioner roles, and general health care provision. In this article, we illustrate the motives of online health information seeking in the context of the doctor-patient relationship in Switzerland. We conducted semistructured interviews with patients who searched for healt…
Subjectivity out of irony
Subjectivity plays an important role in how meaning is created and construed. It concerns the expression of self and the representation of a speaker's perspective or point of view in the interaction with somebody else. The subjectivity explored in this article concerns mainly one special form of self-awareness insofar as it is related to irony. The argument of this article will be carried out in three steps: We first will deal with the main lingu…
Turks and Yugoslavs
Turks and Yugoslavs
Perceived Work Overload and Chronic Worrying Predict Weekend–Weekday Differences in the Cortisol Awakening Response
OBJECTIVE: The cortisol increase after awakening has been shown to be associated with work-related stress. Several studies demonstrated a moderate stability of cortisol awakening responses on subsequent days, suggesting situation-dependent variance. This study tests whether cortisol awakening responses are different on weekdays compared with weekend days and whether such differences may be explained by chronic work overload and worrying. METHODS:…
Manipulation and ideologies in the twentieth century
Interfacing pragmatics
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The Death of Rosmarie Voser
Journal Article The Death of Rosmarie Voser: The Not-so-harmful Consequences of a Fatal Medical Error Get access Peter J. Schulz, Peter J. Schulz Peter J. Schulz is a professor in the Faculty of Communication Science and the director of the Institute of Communication and Health at University of Lugano, where Kent Nakamoto is a guest professor, Uwe Hartung is a senior researcher, and Carmen Faustinelli a Ph.D. candidate. Kent Nakamoto is head of t…
Subjectivity out of irony
Subjectivity plays an important role in how meaning is created and construed. It concerns the expression of self and the representation of a speaker's perspective or point of view in the interaction with somebody else. The subjectivity explored in this article concerns mainly one special form of self-awareness insofar as it is related to irony. The argument of this article will be carried out in three steps: We first will deal with the main lingu…
Coping With Chronic Lower Back Pain
A website was designed in order to help patients with chronic lower back pain (cLBP) to cope with their condition, relying on the concept of health literacy. A sample of 748 chronic or potentially chronic LBP patients were asked to regularly visit the site for a period of 12 months. The intervention was evaluated quantitatively (both preuse and postuse surveys, logfiles) and qualitatively. Users appear to have taken less painkillers than before i…
Potentialities and limits of Internet health communication in chronic care
This article explores people's use of the interactive sections of a patient-centred website called Oneself, specifically designed to provide information and support for enhancing the self-management of chronic low back pain. Oneself includes several synchronous and asynchronous tools to interact with health professionals and lay people. The analysis was performed quantitatively and qualitatively. Quantitatively, we analysed the log files of 276 u…
Internet-enhanced health communication
The figure that stands at the origin of two considerably different areas of knowledge is Hippocrates (c. 460–370 BC). In the historiography of sign theories, Hippocrates is considered to be at the
Online Health Information Seeking in the Context of the Medical Consultation in Switzerland
A growing number of patients search for medical information on the Internet. Understanding how they use the Internet is important, as this might impact their health, patient-practitioner roles, and general health care provision. In this article, we illustrate the motives of online health information seeking in the context of the doctor-patient relationship in Switzerland. We conducted semistructured interviews with patients who searched for healt…
Functional Validity of a Judgment Skills Measure within the Concept of Health Literacy for Sleeping Disorder Patients
The concept of health literacy has been widened to include higher order aspects such as patient decision-making skills while its measurement continued to rely narrowly on reading and numeracy skills, known as functional health literacy. We developed a Judgment Skills measure, designed to assess patients' ability to make appropriate decisions with regard to their condition. The measure offers scenarios with answer options ranked for biomedical ade…
Patient participation in discharge planning decisions in the frame of Primary Nursing approach
The Relationship between Health Literacy and Health Disparities
Health literacy in Mainland China
Health literacy tests in the Chinese-speaking parts of the world have been mainly developed in traditional Chinese to be used in Hong Kong or Taiwan. So far no validated tool in simplified Chinese to assess functional health literacy in Mainland China has been developed. The aim of the study was to validate the simplified Chinese version of the Short Test of Functional Health Literacy in Adults (S-TOFHLA). The traditional Chinese version was tran…
Comparing the quality of pro- and anti-vaccination online information
Our analyses showed that the overall quality of pro-vaccination webpages is superior to anti-vaccination online sources. The developed coding scheme was proven to be a helpful and reliable tool to judge the quality of vaccination-related webpages. Based on the results, we advance recommendations for online health information providers as well as directions for future research in this field
Addressing issues of vaccination literacy and psychological empowerment in the measles-mumps-rubella (MMR) vaccination decision-making
Understanding what drives parents' management of their children's immunization schedule in terms of vaccination literacy and psychological empowerment can help health professionals to communicate more effectively with parents in order to facilitate an informed decision, and stakeholders to design tailored health education programs and materials. This can ultimately help increase the coverage of the MMR vaccination
Does regulatory fit lead to more effective health communication? A systematic review
The effects of reasoned shared decision-making on consultation outcomes
The Effect of Information Communication Technology Interventions on Reducing Social Isolation in the Elderly
Validation of three Arabic health literacy assessment tools in Lebanon
Health literacy is an important predictor of health status, health behaviours, and other health outcomes. However, research on health literacy in the Arab world is scarce and no health literacy tool has been validated to test the health literacy level of the Lebanese population so far. The aim of this study was to validate Arabic translations of three commonly used health literacy assessment tools, the S-TOFHLA, the REALM-R, and the Brief Health …
Validation of Turkish health literacy measures
This study aimed to validate a Turkish version of the Short Test of Functional Health Literacy (S-TOFHLA) (Baker et al, Development of a brief test to measure functional health literacy. Patient Educ Counsel 1999; 38: :33-42) and a Turkish version of the Chew self-report scale (Chew et al., Brief questions to identify patients with inadequate health literacy. Family Med, 2004; 36: :588-94) for measuring functional health literacy. The original En…
Is patient empowerment the key to promote adherence? A systematic review of the relationship between self-efficacy, health locus of control and medication adherence
Social Desirability Bias in Child-Report Social Well-Being
The social inequalities of Internet access, its use, and the impact on children’s academic performance
This longitudinal study explores differences in Internet access and use among school-aged children in Italian-speaking Switzerland and whether and how these differences contribute to inequalities in academic performance. Applying multilevel structural equation modeling with two-wave original survey data from 843 students, their parents, as well as students’ end-term school grades, we show that a family’s socio-economic status indirectly affects c…
Using protection motivation theory to predict intention to adhere to official MMR vaccination recommendations in Switzerland
Switzerland has not yet reached the measles vaccination coverage of 95 percent that is recommended by the World Health Organization to achieve herd immunity. Within the overall objective of informing effective ways to promote the combined Measles, Mumps, Rubella (MMR) vaccination in Switzerland, the aim of this study was to identify predictors of parents' intention to adhere to official MMR vaccination recommendations. Between October 2012 and Ja…
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