Information Women Receive About Heart Attacks and How It Affects Their Knowledge, Beliefs, and Intentions to Act in a Cardiac Emergency

Bibliographic Data

ID15216438
AuthorsHendrika Meischke (0000-0002-1683-2720, a University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA, corresponding author), Alan Kuniyuki (b Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington, USA), Yutaka Yasui (0000-0002-6117-4990, b Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington, USA), Deborah J Bowen (0000-0002-5177-8520, b Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington, USA), Robyn Andersen (b Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington, USA), Nicole Urban (0000-0001-5516-7922, b Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington, USA)
Year2002
Volume23
Issue2
Pages149-162
Publication date2002-03-01
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueHealth Care For Women International (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0739-9332 • E-ISSN: 1096-4665
PublisherTaylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/073993302753429022
PMID11868962
OpenAlexW2093503095
LanguageEN
Citations received4
References cited21

In this study we investigate (a) what information women receive on acute myocardial infarction (AMI) from different information sources, (b) how women evaluate this information, and (c) how information acquisition is related to women's knowledge of AMI, personal risk perceptions, and behavioral intentions regarding a cardiac emergency. A random sample of 844 women 50 years and over were telephoned in the state of Washington. Repeated measures regression analyses showed that women receive most of their information on AMI from the mass media, even though they evaluated the media as less believable, less useful, less clear, and making less of an impression than information received from health care providers. Logistic regression analyses showed that the total number of information sources from which heart attack information was received in the past year was positively related to knowledge of AMI symptoms, beliefs about AMI, and personal risk perceptions. The results are discussed in terms of their pragmatic implications

Advertising · Family medicine · Logistic regression · Mass media · Medical emergency · Myocardial infarction · Perception · Psychiatry · Risk perception · Behavioral Health and Interventions · Medicine · Psychology · Social and Intergroup Psychology · Vaccine Coverage and Hesitancy · Internal Medicine

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