The role of communication inequality in mediating the impacts of socioecological and socioeconomic disparities on HIV/AIDS knowledge and risk perception

Bekalu, Mesfin Awoke; Eggermont, Steven

doi:10.1186/1475-9276-13-16

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“…While the benefits seem to be generally higher among younger, better educated, and the White racial/ethnic groups, the harms seem to be higher among older, less educated, and minority racial/ethnic groups. These findings are consistent with a growing body of literature on the link between communication inequalities and health that shows that health outcomes could vary across socioeconomic and racial/ethnic population subgroups as a result of differences in motivation for, access to, and use of communication resources (Bekalu & Eggermont, 2014;Viswanath & Emmons, 2006;Viswanath, Ramanadhan, & Kontos, 2007). Overall, the findings of this study highlight the importance of considering users' routine use of social media vis-àvis their emotional connection to such use in describing the link between social media use and health.…”

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Association of Social Media Use With Social Well-Being, Positive Mental Health, and Self-Rated Health: Disentangling Routine Use From Emotional Connection to Use

2019

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Most studies addressing social media use as a normal social behavior with positive or negative effects on health-related outcomes have conceptualized and measured social media use and its effects in terms of dose–effect relations. These studies focus on measuring frequency and duration of use, and have seldom considered users’ emotional connections to social media use and the effects associated with such connections. By using a scale with two dimensions capturing users’ integration of social media use into their social routines and their emotional connection to the sites’ use, the present study has brought preliminary evidence that may help map where social media use, as a normal social behavior, may be considered beneficial or harmful. Data from a nationally representative sample ( n = 1,027) of American adults showed that while routine use is associated with positive health outcomes, emotional connection to social media use is associated with negative health outcomes. These associations have been consistent across three health-related outcomes: social well-being, positive mental health, and self-rated health. The data also showed that the strength of the positive and negative associations of routine use and emotional connection with the health outcomes varies across socioeconomic and racial/ethnic population subgroups. Our findings suggest that the link between social media use and health may not only be captured by and explained in terms of conventional dose–effect approaches but may also require a more sophisticated conceptualization and measurement of the social media use behavior.

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Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 89%

Association of Social Media Use With Social Well-Being, Positive Mental Health, and Self-Rated Health: Disentangling Routine Use From Emotional Connection to Use

2019

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“…The spirituality context emphasized the link between spirituality and health and pointed to the importance of religious leaders and traditional healers . Health communication research on HIV/AIDS has taken up some of these considerations (e.g., Bekalu & Eggermont, 2014;Uwah, 2014). For example, studies have considered cultural contexts (e.g., Basu & Dutta, 2009), economic contexts (e.g., Dasgupta, 2013), gender relations (Dako-Gyeke, 2013), and spirituality (e.g., Muturi, 2011).…”

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confidence: 99%

Advancing the New Communications Framework for HIV/AIDS: The Communicative Constitution of HIV/AIDS Networks in Tanzania’s HIV/AIDS NGO Sector

Olufowote¹,

Aranda²,

Wang³

et al. 2017

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Although health communication research on HIV/AIDS has acknowledged the work of HIV/AIDS non-governmental organizations (NGOs), we know little about how such NGOs are collaborating in their response to the epidemic in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). UNAIDS estimated that over two-thirds of world-wide HIV infections and AIDS-related deaths take place in SSA and normative models have highlighted organizational collaborations as an important part of the response to public health risks and crises. This study advanced the New Communications Framework for HIV/AIDS by drawing on a constitutive model of communication to develop a discursive perspective on HIV/AIDS NGO collaborations. Analyses of interviews with 36 leaders of Tanzanian HIV/AIDS NGOs resulted in (a) networks of organizations of people living with HIV/AIDS (PLWHA) and (b) networks expressing the following identities: as single entities that unify PLWHA organizations in/across administrative divisions, as structures for reaching grassroots PLWHA and facilitating their participation in decision-making forums at various scales, and as vehicles for various social impacts such as advocacy for PLWHA.

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“…The study performed by Mou and Lin (2014) showed that the daily frequency of respondents browsing general information on the Internet is positively correlated to their food safety risk perception. Bekalu and Eggermont (2014) found that the frequency of respondents' exposure to acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS)-related content in the media was positively related with their health risk perception level . A study conducted by Dong, Hu, and Zhu (2018) revealed that the respondents' trust towards media information sources was significantly positively related with their environmental risk perception.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…First, researchers often focus on only a single aspect of media consumption. For example, Mou and Lin (2014) assessed the frequency of viewing general media content; Bekalu and Eggermont (2014) focused on the frequency of viewing specific risk events in the media; and Dong, Hu, and Zhu (2018) discussed media source credibility (MSC) . Few studies have systematically and comprehensively evaluated media consumption.…”

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confidence: 99%

The influence of media consumption on public risk perception: a meta-analysis

Chun-hua

Jiang

Liu

et al. 2020

Journal of Risk Research

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Media is an important explanatory variable in the research on the social amplification of risk; the public often perceives risks in social life through media consumption such as by relying on, using, and trusting the media dialectically. Currently, researchers have not reached a consistent conclusion about the relationship between media consumption and public risk perception (PRP). This study uses meta-analysis to integrate empirical literature and conducts a more in-depth and systematic analysis of the relationship between media consumption and PRP. The results show that (1) there is no significant correlation between general media use (GMU) and PRP, there is positive relationship between selective media exposure (SMEX) and PRP, and there is no significant correlation between media source credibility (MSC) and PRP. (2) Further meta-regression and subgroup analyses show that country type significantly moderates the relationship between GMU and PRP. Compared with high uncertainty avoidance countries, the relationship between GMU and PRP in low uncertainty avoidance countries is stronger. Moreover, risk type significantly moderates the relationship between SMEX and PRP. Compared with terrorist crime, environmental, accident and other types of risks, the SMEX is more positively correlated with public's food safety and health risk perception. In addition, media type moderates the relationship between MSC and PRP. Compared with traditional media and internet social media, the MSC of mixed media have a stronger positive relationship with PRP.

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The role of communication inequality in mediating the impacts of socioecological and socioeconomic disparities on HIV/AIDS knowledge and risk perception

Cited by 19 publications

References 55 publications

Association of Social Media Use With Social Well-Being, Positive Mental Health, and Self-Rated Health: Disentangling Routine Use From Emotional Connection to Use

Association of Social Media Use With Social Well-Being, Positive Mental Health, and Self-Rated Health: Disentangling Routine Use From Emotional Connection to Use

Advancing the New Communications Framework for HIV/AIDS: The Communicative Constitution of HIV/AIDS Networks in Tanzania’s HIV/AIDS NGO Sector

The influence of media consumption on public risk perception: a meta-analysis

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