Janice L Krieger
Biographic Data
| ID | 90451 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Janice L Krieger |
| GIVEN NAMES | Janice L |
| FAMILY NAME | Krieger |
| SIGNATURE | KRIEGER J L |
| AFFILIATIONS | The Ohio State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9950-9170 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 30 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 76 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 30 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
A Subjective Culture Approach to Cancer Prevention: Rural Black and White Adults’ Perceptions of Using Virtual Health Assistants to Promote Colorectal Cancer Screening
In the US, Black adults are less likely than White adults to be screened for colorectal cancer (CRC). This study uses a subjective culture approach to describe and compare perceptions of a CRC screening intervention delivered via virtual health assistants (VHAs) among rural Black and White study participants. We analyzed 28 focus groups with Black (n = 85) and White (n = 69) adults aged 50–73. Participants, largely recruited through community eng…
What did the pandemic teach us about effective health communication? Unpacking the Covid-19 infodemic
Study results have implications for tailoring health communication strategies to reach specific subgroups, including those more vulnerable to severe illness from COVID-19. A set of recommendations are provided to assist in campaign development
Do they speak like me? Exploring how perceptions of linguistic difference may influence patient perceptions of healthcare providers
The increased utilization of telehealth has provided patients with the opportunity to interact with racially diverse healthcare providers (HCPs). While evidence of racial stereotypes in healthcare is well documented, less is known about whether linguistic cues increase or decrease racial bias in healthcare interactions. The purpose of this pilot study was to use virtual clinicians (VCs) to examine how varying linguistic features affect patient pe…
PrEP awareness among people living with HIV in Florida: Florida Cohort study
In 2017, Florida ranked 2nd nationally in prevalence and incidence rates of HIV infections in the United States. Due to the high burden of HIV and low viral suppression in Florida, it is of increased importance to study methods of HIV prevention such as preexposure prophylaxis(PrEP) in this state. Our study aimed to examine correlates of PrEP awareness among PLWH in Florida and describe patterns of PrEP awareness/information sources. Using data c…
A feasibility trial of parent HPV vaccine reminders and phone-based motivational interviewing
Without providing explicit consent to receive vaccine-related messages, parents nonetheless found postcards and interactive text messages acceptable. Centralizing MI to phone calls with trained staff was acceptable to parents and resulted in highly MI-adherent interviews
The Perceived Availability of Online Social Support: Exploring the Contributions of Illness and Rural Identities in Adults with Chronic Respiratory Illness
Joining an online social support group may increase perceived membership to a community, but it does not guarantee that the community will be available when it is needed. This is especially relevant for adults with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD), many of whom reside in rural regions and continually negotiate their illness identity. Drawing from social support literature and communication theory of identity, this cross-sectional stud…
Parent Prevention Communication Profiles and Adolescent Substance Use: A Latent Profile Analysis and Growth Curve Model
This current study identifies distinct parent prevention communication profiles and examines whether youth with different parental communication profiles have varying substance use trajectories over time. Eleven schools in two rural school districts in the Midwestern United States were selected, and 784 students were surveyed at three time points from the beginning of 7th grade to the end of 8th grade. A series of latent profile analyses were per…
Distributed Cognition in Cancer Treatment Decision Making: An Application of the Decide Decision-Making Styles Typology
Distributed cognition occurs when cognitive and affective schemas are shared between two or more people during interpersonal discussion. Although extant research focuses on distributed cognition in decision making between health care providers and patients, studies show that caregivers are also highly influential in the treatment decisions of patients. However, there are little empirical data describing how and when families exert influence. The …
Innovation or Inconsistency? Framing Colorectal Cancer Guidelines to Improve Public Perceptions of Updated Screening Recommendations
Effectively communicating how findings from population science inform patient-level decision-making about cancer prevention remains a challenge. Despite the substantial benefits associated with early detection of colorectal cancer, patient compliance with screening guidelines is suboptimal. One potential barrier to compliance is the language used by organizations to frame screening recommendations. Drawing on theory and research on verbal immedia…
Translating Science: Using the Science of Language to Explicate the Language of Science
The articles in this special issue highlight the ways in which science communication, and in particular translational communication, implicates the nuances of language. This issue is the report of the Task Force on STEM (science, technology, engineering, mathematics) language set up by the International Association of Language and Social Psychology. The articles raise issues about the multiple stakeholders in science and their characteristic lang…
I Understand How You Feel: The Language of Empathy in Virtual Clinical Training
Effective communication is one of the most fundamental aspects of successful patient care, and it frequently depends on the nurses' ability to empathize with patients while finding effective ways to translate medical science into personally relevant health information. Skilled nurses are expected to understand the patient's experiences and feelings and be able to communicate this understanding to the patient, but language strategies used to achie…
Age Differences in Cancer Treatment Decision Making and Social Support
Despite having lower received social support in cancer treatment DM, older adults were more satisfied with their DM than younger and middle-aged adults. Health care workers should be aware of different DM styles and influence of social networks to help facilitate optimal patient DM and satisfaction
Tourism crisis management: Can the Extended Parallel Process Model be used to understand crisis responses in the cruise industry
Communication and Health Disparities
The Conceptualization of Self-Identity among Residents of Appalachia Ohio
Social identity and its association to culture, place, and health is an important, but understudied, area of research. One social group that illustrates this connection between place and identity is people living in Appalachia. This exploratory mixed-method study investigates the appropriateness of the self-concept of Ohio Appalachian adults with cancer as "Appalachian," the context associated with that identity and its association with community…
Community Members’ Input into Cancer Prevention Campaign Development and Experience Being Featured in the Campaign
Having a shared vision, ongoing trust, and good communication are essential elements to maintaining a viable academic-community partnership
Community Members’ Input into Cancer Prevention Campaign Development and Experience Being Featured in the Campaign
Community Members’ Input into Cancer Prevention Campaign Development and Experience Being Featured in the Campaign Mira L. Katz, Brittney Keller, Cathy M. Tatum, Darla K. Fickle, Courtney Midkiff, Sharon Carver, Janice L. Krieger, Michael D. Slater, and Electra D. Paskett What Is the Purpose of this Study/Review? • To describe a partnership of cancer disparities researchers and community members who developed county-specific media campaigns to im…
Caregiver Perceptions of Their Influence on Cancer Treatment Decision Making: Intersections of Language, Identity, and Illness
Serious illness of a loved one can disrupt a caregiver's sense of self and relationships. We examined the language caregivers use to describe the cancer treatment decision making of a loved one to understand how caregivers frame their own identity relative to a patient's illness. We analyzed transcripts from in-depth interviews conducted with caregivers ( N = 58) of cancer patients to examine the intersection among language, identity, and illness…
Teacher Narratives and Student Engagement: Testing Narrative Engagement Theory in Drug Prevention Education
Testing narrative engagement theory, this study examines student engagement and teachers' spontaneous narratives told in a narrative-based drug prevention curriculum. The study describes the extent to which teachers share their own narratives in a narrative-based curriculum, identifies dominant narrative elements, forms and functions, and assesses the relationships among teacher narratives, overall lesson narrative quality, and student engagement…
Family Communication About Cancer Treatment Decision Making A Description of the Decide Typology
This chapter reviews key theoretical perspectives on treatment decision making, examines situation and relational influences on the treatment decision-making process, reviews models of patient and family participation in treatment decision making, and proposes a typology for understanding the different ways in which families negotiate treatment decisions. The typology suggests new insights for theorizing decision-making processes related to cance…
Do Actions Speak Louder Than Words? Adolescent Interpretations of Parental Substance Use
Parents are powerful socialization agents for children and as children reach adolescence parental role models, among other sources of influence, become particularly salient in adolescents' decision-making regarding initiation of substance use. Open parent-adolescent communication about substances is associated with less substance use by adolescents; however, it is unclear how youth interpret anti-drug use messages from their parents, especially i…
Community Engagement as a Process and an Outcome of Developing Culturally Grounded Health Communication Interventions: An Example from the Decide Project
Community engagement is a process often used in developing effective health communication interventions, especially in traditionally underserved cultural contexts. While the potentially positive outcomes of community engagement are well established, the communication processes that result in engagement with cultural groups are less apparent. The focus on the outcomes of engagement at the expense of describing how engagement occurs makes it diffic…
Media coverage of cervical cancer and the HPV vaccine: Implications for geographic health inequities
Objective To describe the content of newspaper articles about cervical cancer and the human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine published in Appalachia and identify potential differences in coverage as compared to the content of newspaper articles published in non‐Appalachia Ohio. Background Individuals rely on media as an important source of health information. Inadequate coverage of health issues may reinforce health inequities such as the elevated ce…
Adapting School‐Based Substance Use Prevention Curriculum Through Cultural Grounding: A Review and Exemplar of Adaptation Processes for Rural Schools
A central challenge facing twenty‐first century community‐based researchers and prevention scientists is curriculum adaptation processes. While early prevention efforts sought to develop effective programs, taking programs to scale implies that they will be adapted, especially as programs are implemented with populations other than those with whom they were developed or tested. The principle of cultural grounding, which argues that health message…
Describing Teacher–Student Interactions: A Qualitative Assessment of Teacher Implementation of the 7th Grade keepin’ it Real Substance Use Intervention
Variations in the delivery of school‐based substance use prevention curricula affect students’ acquisition of the lesson content and program outcomes. Although adaptation is sometimes viewed as a lack of fidelity, it is unclear what types of variations actually occur in the classroom. This observational study investigated teacher and student behaviors during implementation of a middle school‐based drug prevention curriculum in 25 schools across t…
Ageism and Ageist Language Across the Life Span: Intimate Relationships and Non‐intimate Interactions
The possible effects of ageist language and ageism on the structure and function of intimate and non‐intimate relationships have received significant attention from social scientists. Recent research grounded in communication accommodation theory ( Giles, Mulac, Bradac, & Johnson, 1987 ), the communication predicament model of ageing ( Ryan, Giles, Bartolucci, & Henwood, 1986 ), the communication enhancement model of ageing ( Ryan, Meredith, MacL…
Tourism crisis management: Can the Extended Parallel Process Model be used to understand crisis responses in the cruise industry
The Rural Context of Illicit Substance Offers: A Study of Appalachian Rural Adolescents
Rural adolescents are at risk for early initiation and problematic substance use, but to date few studies have examined the rural context of substance use. To better understand substance offers in the rural context, semi-structured interviews were conducted with 118, 12-19 year old adolescents ( M = 13.68, SD = 1.37) from Appalachian, rural school districts in Pennsylvania and Ohio. Interviews elicited stories about substance offer-response episo…
The Principle of Cultural Grounding in School-Based Substance Abuse Prevention: The Drug Resistance Strategies Project
Culture plays an important role in all health message design, and school-based substance abuse prevention is no exception. Because most adolescent substance abuse prevention programs in the United States are delivered in schools, this is particularly important given the diversity of the students. Unfortunately, there is little theory to guide these programs and fewer programs that successfully achieve cultural competence. Using communication acco…
Caregiver Perceptions of Their Influence on Cancer Treatment Decision Making: Intersections of Language, Identity, and Illness
Serious illness of a loved one can disrupt a caregiver's sense of self and relationships. We examined the language caregivers use to describe the cancer treatment decision making of a loved one to understand how caregivers frame their own identity relative to a patient's illness. We analyzed transcripts from in-depth interviews conducted with caregivers ( N = 58) of cancer patients to examine the intersection among language, identity, and illness…
I Understand How You Feel: The Language of Empathy in Virtual Clinical Training
Effective communication is one of the most fundamental aspects of successful patient care, and it frequently depends on the nurses' ability to empathize with patients while finding effective ways to translate medical science into personally relevant health information. Skilled nurses are expected to understand the patient's experiences and feelings and be able to communicate this understanding to the patient, but language strategies used to achie…
Do Actions Speak Louder Than Words? Adolescent Interpretations of Parental Substance Use
Parents are powerful socialization agents for children and as children reach adolescence parental role models, among other sources of influence, become particularly salient in adolescents' decision-making regarding initiation of substance use. Open parent-adolescent communication about substances is associated with less substance use by adolescents; however, it is unclear how youth interpret anti-drug use messages from their parents, especially i…
Translating Science: Using the Science of Language to Explicate the Language of Science
The articles in this special issue highlight the ways in which science communication, and in particular translational communication, implicates the nuances of language. This issue is the report of the Task Force on STEM (science, technology, engineering, mathematics) language set up by the International Association of Language and Social Psychology. The articles raise issues about the multiple stakeholders in science and their characteristic lang…
Does Mother Know Best? An Actor-Partner Model of College-Age Women's Human Papillomavirus Vaccination Behavior
This study examined the associations of perceived threat, perceived efficacy, and parent–child communication with the extent to which college-age women received the human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine. Daughters and their mothers completed a survey about the HPV vaccine (N = 182 dyads). The results showed that mothers' perceived self-efficacy to talk to their daughters and mothers' response efficacy of the vaccine were indirectly related to mother…
Describing Teacher–Student Interactions: A Qualitative Assessment of Teacher Implementation of the 7th Grade keepin’ it Real Substance Use Intervention
Variations in the delivery of school‐based substance use prevention curricula affect students’ acquisition of the lesson content and program outcomes. Although adaptation is sometimes viewed as a lack of fidelity, it is unclear what types of variations actually occur in the classroom. This observational study investigated teacher and student behaviors during implementation of a middle school‐based drug prevention curriculum in 25 schools across t…
Parent Prevention Communication Profiles and Adolescent Substance Use: A Latent Profile Analysis and Growth Curve Model
This current study identifies distinct parent prevention communication profiles and examines whether youth with different parental communication profiles have varying substance use trajectories over time. Eleven schools in two rural school districts in the Midwestern United States were selected, and 784 students were surveyed at three time points from the beginning of 7th grade to the end of 8th grade. A series of latent profile analyses were per…
Distributed Cognition in Cancer Treatment Decision Making: An Application of the Decide Decision-Making Styles Typology
Distributed cognition occurs when cognitive and affective schemas are shared between two or more people during interpersonal discussion. Although extant research focuses on distributed cognition in decision making between health care providers and patients, studies show that caregivers are also highly influential in the treatment decisions of patients. However, there are little empirical data describing how and when families exert influence. The …
Family Communication About Cancer Treatment Decision Making A Description of the Decide Typology
This chapter reviews key theoretical perspectives on treatment decision making, examines situation and relational influences on the treatment decision-making process, reviews models of patient and family participation in treatment decision making, and proposes a typology for understanding the different ways in which families negotiate treatment decisions. The typology suggests new insights for theorizing decision-making processes related to cance…
Community Engagement as a Process and an Outcome of Developing Culturally Grounded Health Communication Interventions: An Example from the Decide Project
Community engagement is a process often used in developing effective health communication interventions, especially in traditionally underserved cultural contexts. While the potentially positive outcomes of community engagement are well established, the communication processes that result in engagement with cultural groups are less apparent. The focus on the outcomes of engagement at the expense of describing how engagement occurs makes it diffic…
Innovation or Inconsistency? Framing Colorectal Cancer Guidelines to Improve Public Perceptions of Updated Screening Recommendations
Effectively communicating how findings from population science inform patient-level decision-making about cancer prevention remains a challenge. Despite the substantial benefits associated with early detection of colorectal cancer, patient compliance with screening guidelines is suboptimal. One potential barrier to compliance is the language used by organizations to frame screening recommendations. Drawing on theory and research on verbal immedia…
Teacher Narratives and Student Engagement: Testing Narrative Engagement Theory in Drug Prevention Education
Testing narrative engagement theory, this study examines student engagement and teachers' spontaneous narratives told in a narrative-based drug prevention curriculum. The study describes the extent to which teachers share their own narratives in a narrative-based curriculum, identifies dominant narrative elements, forms and functions, and assesses the relationships among teacher narratives, overall lesson narrative quality, and student engagement…
Ageism and Ageist Language Across the Life Span: Intimate Relationships and Non‐intimate Interactions
The possible effects of ageist language and ageism on the structure and function of intimate and non‐intimate relationships have received significant attention from social scientists. Recent research grounded in communication accommodation theory ( Giles, Mulac, Bradac, & Johnson, 1987 ), the communication predicament model of ageing ( Ryan, Giles, Bartolucci, & Henwood, 1986 ), the communication enhancement model of ageing ( Ryan, Meredith, MacL…
The Principle of Cultural Grounding in School-Based Substance Abuse Prevention: The Drug Resistance Strategies Project
Culture plays an important role in all health message design, and school-based substance abuse prevention is no exception. Because most adolescent substance abuse prevention programs in the United States are delivered in schools, this is particularly important given the diversity of the students. Unfortunately, there is little theory to guide these programs and fewer programs that successfully achieve cultural competence. Using communication acco…
Appalachian and Non-Appalachian Pediatricians’ Encouragement of the Human Papillomavirus Vaccine: Implications for Health Disparities
Does Mother Know Best? An Actor-Partner Model of College-Age Women's Human Papillomavirus Vaccination Behavior
This study examined the associations of perceived threat, perceived efficacy, and parent–child communication with the extent to which college-age women received the human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine. Daughters and their mothers completed a survey about the HPV vaccine (N = 182 dyads). The results showed that mothers' perceived self-efficacy to talk to their daughters and mothers' response efficacy of the vaccine were indirectly related to mother…
The Rural Context of Illicit Substance Offers: A Study of Appalachian Rural Adolescents
Rural adolescents are at risk for early initiation and problematic substance use, but to date few studies have examined the rural context of substance use. To better understand substance offers in the rural context, semi-structured interviews were conducted with 118, 12-19 year old adolescents ( M = 13.68, SD = 1.37) from Appalachian, rural school districts in Pennsylvania and Ohio. Interviews elicited stories about substance offer-response episo…
Media coverage of cervical cancer and the HPV vaccine: Implications for geographic health inequities
Objective To describe the content of newspaper articles about cervical cancer and the human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine published in Appalachia and identify potential differences in coverage as compared to the content of newspaper articles published in non‐Appalachia Ohio. Background Individuals rely on media as an important source of health information. Inadequate coverage of health issues may reinforce health inequities such as the elevated ce…
Adapting School‐Based Substance Use Prevention Curriculum Through Cultural Grounding: A Review and Exemplar of Adaptation Processes for Rural Schools
A central challenge facing twenty‐first century community‐based researchers and prevention scientists is curriculum adaptation processes. While early prevention efforts sought to develop effective programs, taking programs to scale implies that they will be adapted, especially as programs are implemented with populations other than those with whom they were developed or tested. The principle of cultural grounding, which argues that health message…
Describing Teacher–Student Interactions: A Qualitative Assessment of Teacher Implementation of the 7th Grade keepin’ it Real Substance Use Intervention
Variations in the delivery of school‐based substance use prevention curricula affect students’ acquisition of the lesson content and program outcomes. Although adaptation is sometimes viewed as a lack of fidelity, it is unclear what types of variations actually occur in the classroom. This observational study investigated teacher and student behaviors during implementation of a middle school‐based drug prevention curriculum in 25 schools across t…
Family Communication About Cancer Treatment Decision Making A Description of the Decide Typology
This chapter reviews key theoretical perspectives on treatment decision making, examines situation and relational influences on the treatment decision-making process, reviews models of patient and family participation in treatment decision making, and proposes a typology for understanding the different ways in which families negotiate treatment decisions. The typology suggests new insights for theorizing decision-making processes related to cance…
Do Actions Speak Louder Than Words? Adolescent Interpretations of Parental Substance Use
Parents are powerful socialization agents for children and as children reach adolescence parental role models, among other sources of influence, become particularly salient in adolescents' decision-making regarding initiation of substance use. Open parent-adolescent communication about substances is associated with less substance use by adolescents; however, it is unclear how youth interpret anti-drug use messages from their parents, especially i…
Community Engagement as a Process and an Outcome of Developing Culturally Grounded Health Communication Interventions: An Example from the Decide Project
Community engagement is a process often used in developing effective health communication interventions, especially in traditionally underserved cultural contexts. While the potentially positive outcomes of community engagement are well established, the communication processes that result in engagement with cultural groups are less apparent. The focus on the outcomes of engagement at the expense of describing how engagement occurs makes it diffic…
Communication and Health Disparities
The Conceptualization of Self-Identity among Residents of Appalachia Ohio
Social identity and its association to culture, place, and health is an important, but understudied, area of research. One social group that illustrates this connection between place and identity is people living in Appalachia. This exploratory mixed-method study investigates the appropriateness of the self-concept of Ohio Appalachian adults with cancer as "Appalachian," the context associated with that identity and its association with community…
Community Members’ Input into Cancer Prevention Campaign Development and Experience Being Featured in the Campaign
Having a shared vision, ongoing trust, and good communication are essential elements to maintaining a viable academic-community partnership
Community Members’ Input into Cancer Prevention Campaign Development and Experience Being Featured in the Campaign
Community Members’ Input into Cancer Prevention Campaign Development and Experience Being Featured in the Campaign Mira L. Katz, Brittney Keller, Cathy M. Tatum, Darla K. Fickle, Courtney Midkiff, Sharon Carver, Janice L. Krieger, Michael D. Slater, and Electra D. Paskett What Is the Purpose of this Study/Review? • To describe a partnership of cancer disparities researchers and community members who developed county-specific media campaigns to im…
Caregiver Perceptions of Their Influence on Cancer Treatment Decision Making: Intersections of Language, Identity, and Illness
Serious illness of a loved one can disrupt a caregiver's sense of self and relationships. We examined the language caregivers use to describe the cancer treatment decision making of a loved one to understand how caregivers frame their own identity relative to a patient's illness. We analyzed transcripts from in-depth interviews conducted with caregivers ( N = 58) of cancer patients to examine the intersection among language, identity, and illness…
Teacher Narratives and Student Engagement: Testing Narrative Engagement Theory in Drug Prevention Education
Testing narrative engagement theory, this study examines student engagement and teachers' spontaneous narratives told in a narrative-based drug prevention curriculum. The study describes the extent to which teachers share their own narratives in a narrative-based curriculum, identifies dominant narrative elements, forms and functions, and assesses the relationships among teacher narratives, overall lesson narrative quality, and student engagement…
Age Differences in Cancer Treatment Decision Making and Social Support
Despite having lower received social support in cancer treatment DM, older adults were more satisfied with their DM than younger and middle-aged adults. Health care workers should be aware of different DM styles and influence of social networks to help facilitate optimal patient DM and satisfaction
Tourism crisis management: Can the Extended Parallel Process Model be used to understand crisis responses in the cruise industry
Parent Prevention Communication Profiles and Adolescent Substance Use: A Latent Profile Analysis and Growth Curve Model
This current study identifies distinct parent prevention communication profiles and examines whether youth with different parental communication profiles have varying substance use trajectories over time. Eleven schools in two rural school districts in the Midwestern United States were selected, and 784 students were surveyed at three time points from the beginning of 7th grade to the end of 8th grade. A series of latent profile analyses were per…
Distributed Cognition in Cancer Treatment Decision Making: An Application of the Decide Decision-Making Styles Typology
Distributed cognition occurs when cognitive and affective schemas are shared between two or more people during interpersonal discussion. Although extant research focuses on distributed cognition in decision making between health care providers and patients, studies show that caregivers are also highly influential in the treatment decisions of patients. However, there are little empirical data describing how and when families exert influence. The …
Innovation or Inconsistency? Framing Colorectal Cancer Guidelines to Improve Public Perceptions of Updated Screening Recommendations
Effectively communicating how findings from population science inform patient-level decision-making about cancer prevention remains a challenge. Despite the substantial benefits associated with early detection of colorectal cancer, patient compliance with screening guidelines is suboptimal. One potential barrier to compliance is the language used by organizations to frame screening recommendations. Drawing on theory and research on verbal immedia…
Translating Science: Using the Science of Language to Explicate the Language of Science
The articles in this special issue highlight the ways in which science communication, and in particular translational communication, implicates the nuances of language. This issue is the report of the Task Force on STEM (science, technology, engineering, mathematics) language set up by the International Association of Language and Social Psychology. The articles raise issues about the multiple stakeholders in science and their characteristic lang…
I Understand How You Feel: The Language of Empathy in Virtual Clinical Training
Effective communication is one of the most fundamental aspects of successful patient care, and it frequently depends on the nurses' ability to empathize with patients while finding effective ways to translate medical science into personally relevant health information. Skilled nurses are expected to understand the patient's experiences and feelings and be able to communicate this understanding to the patient, but language strategies used to achie…
The Perceived Availability of Online Social Support: Exploring the Contributions of Illness and Rural Identities in Adults with Chronic Respiratory Illness
Joining an online social support group may increase perceived membership to a community, but it does not guarantee that the community will be available when it is needed. This is especially relevant for adults with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD), many of whom reside in rural regions and continually negotiate their illness identity. Drawing from social support literature and communication theory of identity, this cross-sectional stud…
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