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International Perspectives
Volume 17, 2012 - Issue 2
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Risk, Efficacy, and Seeking of General, Breast, and Prostate Cancer Information

Xiaoli Nan Department of Communication, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, USACorrespondence[email protected]
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Jill Underhill Department of Communication, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, USA
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Hua Jiang Towson University, Towson, Maryland, USA
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Hongmei Shen San Diego State University, San Diego, California, USA
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Beth Kuch University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, USA
Pages 199-211 | Published online: 25 Oct 2011

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Macarena Pena-y-Lillo & Leila Mohammadi. (2023) Information scanning in the COVID-19 pandemic: a test and expansion of the channel complementarity theory using latent class analysis. Journal of Communication in Healthcare 16:3, pages 245-254.
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Linqi Lu, Jiawei Liu & Y. Connie Yuan. (2022) Cultural Differences in Cancer Information Acquisition: Cancer Risk Perceptions, Fatalistic Beliefs, and Worry as Predictors of Cancer Information Seeking and Avoidance in the U.S. and China. Health Communication 37:11, pages 1442-1451.
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Lianshan Zhang & Xiaodong Yang. (2021) Linking Risk Perception to Breast Cancer Examination Intention in China: Examining an Adapted Cognitive Mediation Model. Health Communication 36:14, pages 1813-1824.
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Bo Yang & Shaohai Jiang. (2021) Intentions to Seek Information about E-Cigarettes: Perceived Risk, Efficacy, and Smoking Identity. Journal of Health Communication 26:5, pages 339-349.
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Hongmei Shen, Jie Xu & Yueyan Wang. (2019) Applying Situational Theory of Problem Solving in Cancer Information Seeking: A Cross-Sectional Analysis of 2014 HINTS Survey. Journal of Health Communication 24:2, pages 165-173.
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Edmund W. J. Lee, Mincheol Shin, Ariffin Kawaja & Shirley S. Ho. (2016) The Augmented Cognitive Mediation Model: Examining Antecedents of Factual and Structural Breast Cancer Knowledge Among Singaporean Women. Journal of Health Communication 21:5, pages 583-592.
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Erin K. Ruppel. (2016) Scanning Health Information Sources: Applying and Extending the Comprehensive Model of Information Seeking. Journal of Health Communication 21:2, pages 208-216.
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Katherine L. Grasso & Robert A. Bell. (2015) Understanding Health Information Seeking: A Test of the Risk Perception Attitude Framework. Journal of Health Communication 20:12, pages 1406-1414.
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Chenxi Yang, Jianing You & Yunya Zhang. (2023) How Risk Perception Impacts Cervical Cancer Knowledge Acquisition in China: From an Adapted Cognitive Mediation Model Perspective. Journal of Education, Humanities and Social Sciences 12, pages 27-35.
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Asma Alwreikat, Ahmed Shehata & Metwaly Ali Mohamed Edakar. (2021) Arab women feelings while seeking information during COVID-19 pandemic: applying PMT constructs. Online Information Review 46:3, pages 525-546.
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Patrick De Pelsmacker, Martine Lewi & Veroline Cauberghe. (2017) The Effect of Personal Characteristics, Perceived Threat, Efficacy and Breast Cancer Anxiety on Breast Cancer Screening Activation. Healthcare 5:4, pages 65.
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