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Greaney, Mary L.; Puleo, Elaine; Bennett, Gary G.; Haines, Jess; Viswanath, K.; Gillman, Matthew W.; Sprunck-Harrild, Kim; Coeling, Molly; Rusinak, Donna; Emmons, Karen M. – Health Education & Behavior, 2014
Background: Many U.S. adults have multiple behavioral risk factors, and effective, scalable interventions are needed to promote population-level health. In the health care setting, interventions are often provided in print, although accessible to nearly everyone, are brief (e.g., pamphlets), are not interactive, and can require some logistics…
Descriptors: Health Education, Health Promotion, Risk, Health Behavior
Waters, Erika A.; Weinstein, Neil D.; Colditz, Graham A.; Emmons, Karen M. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied, 2007
Laypeople tend to be overly sensitive to side effects of treatments that prevent illness, possibly leading them to refuse beneficial therapies. This Internet-based study attempted to reduce such side effect aversion by adding graphic displays to the numerical risk probabilities. It also explored whether graphics reduce side effect aversion by…
Descriptors: Probability, Medical Services, Risk, Cancer