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Avoiding Health Information

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Pages 212-229 | Published online: 17 Oct 2011

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Elena Link, Robin Leuppert & Eva Baumann. (2023) Outcomes of Information Seeking and Avoidance Behaviors: Insights from a German Longitudinal Study. Journal of Health Communication 28:12, pages 793-804.
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Carolanne Mahony, Ciara Heavin & David Sammon. (2022) Health-related information resource use: an exploratory study of expectant mothers. Journal of Decision Systems 31:3, pages 234-257.
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Qinghua Yang, Natalie Herbert, Sijia Yang, Julia Alber, Yotam Ophir & Joseph N. Cappella. (2021) The role of information avoidance in managing uncertainty from conflicting recommendations about electronic cigarettes. Communication Monographs 88:3, pages 263-285.
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Antonis Gardikiotis, Evanthia Malinaki, Charalambos Charisiadis-Tsitlakidis, Aristea Protonotariou, Stamatis Archontis, Anna Lampropoulou, Irini Maraki, Konstantina Papatheodorou & George Zafeiriou. (2021) Emotional and Cognitive Responses to COVID-19 Information Overload under Lockdown Predict Media Attention and Risk Perceptions of COVID-19. Journal of Health Communication 26:6, pages 434-442.
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Kelly G. McAninch, Bryan Abendschein & J. Kale Monk. (2021) Protective Buffering and Deception as Moderators of Relational Turbulence among Military Couples. Communication Studies 72:3, pages 366-383.
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Amy L. Delaney & Erin D. Basinger. (2021) Uncertainty and support-seeking in US-based online diabetes forums. Journal of Applied Communication Research 49:3, pages 305-324.
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Kai Kuang & Patricia E. Gettings. (2021) Interactions among Actual Uncertainty, Desired Uncertainty, and Uncertainty Discrepancy on Anxiety and Information Seeking. Journal of Health Communication 26:2, pages 127-136.
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Stephanie L. Hughes & Lynsey K. Romo. (2020) An Exploration of How Individuals with an Ostomy Communicatively Manage Uncertainty. Health Communication 35:3, pages 375-383.
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John Gastil & Robert Marriott. (2019) How Communicating Misleading Information Dilutes Public Understanding of Weight Loss Mechanisms. Health Communication 34:12, pages 1524-1532.
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Kai Kuang. (2018) Reconceptualizing uncertainty in illness: commonalities, variations, and the multidimensional nature of uncertainty. Annals of the International Communication Association 42:3, pages 181-206.
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Elizabeth Housholder, Brendan R. Watson & Susan LoRusso. (2018) Does Political Advertising Lead to Online Information Seeking? A Real-World Test Using Google Search Data. Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media 62:2, pages 337-353.
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Axel Westerwick, Benjamin K. Johnson & Silvia Knobloch-Westerwick. (2017) Change Your Ways: Fostering Health Attitudes Toward Change Through Selective Exposure to Online Health Messages. Health Communication 32:5, pages 639-649.
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Maria G. Checton, Kathryn Greene, Amanda Carpenter & Danielle Catona. (2017) Perceptions of Health Information Seeking and Partner Advocacy in the Context of a Cardiology Office Visit: Connections with Health Outcomes. Health Communication 32:5, pages 587-595.
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Dale E. Brashers, Erin D. Basinger, Lance S. Rintamaki, John P. Caughlin & Michael Para. (2017) Taking Control: The Efficacy and Durability of a Peer-Led Uncertainty Management Intervention for People Recently Diagnosed With HIV. Health Communication 32:1, pages 11-21.
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Jiyoung Chae, Chul-joo Lee & Jakob D. Jensen. (2016) Correlates of Cancer Information Overload: Focusing on Individual Ability and Motivation. Health Communication 31:5, pages 626-634.
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Elisia L. Cohen, Allison M. Scott, Rachael Record, Sara Shaunfield, M. Grace Jones & Tom Collins. (2016) Using communication to manage uncertainty about cervical cancer screening guideline adherence among Appalachian women. Journal of Applied Communication Research 44:1, pages 22-39.
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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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Christopher R. Gustafson, Kathleen R. Brooks, Syed Imran Ali Meerza & Amalia Yiannaka. (2023) Emotional responses to COVID-19 stressors increase information avoidance about an important unrelated health threat. PLOS ONE 18:9, pages e0286712.
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Catherine Benedict, Julia Stal, Ali Davis, Anna Zeidman, Devon Pons, Lidia Schapira, Michael Diefenbach & Jennifer S. Ford. (2023) Greater fertility distress and avoidance relate to poorer decision making about family building after cancer among adolescent and young adult female survivors. Psycho-Oncology.
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Elena Link, Eva Baumann & Christoph Aluttis. (2023) Ein geschlechterspezifischer Blick auf das gesundheitsbezogene Informationshandeln, seine Treiber und BarrierenA gendered perspective of information behaviors, its drivers, and barriers. Bundesgesundheitsblatt - Gesundheitsforschung - Gesundheitsschutz.
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Yang Yuqi, Hu Rui, Ge Yongqing & Yin Jing. (2023) Construction of influencing factors model for public information avoidance behavior in major infectious disease outbreaks based on meta-ethnography. Heliyon, pages e20240.
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Elena Link & Paula Memenga. (2023) Digitale, personalisierte Gesundheitsinformationsangebote von Ärzt*innen: Ergebnisse einer Befragung von Patient*innen und Ärzt*innen zu Akzeptanz und AnforderungenDigital personalized health information services from physicians: survey results of patients’ and physicians’ acceptance and expectations. Bundesgesundheitsblatt - Gesundheitsforschung - Gesundheitsschutz 66:9, pages 982-989.
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