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The WSCA Health Communication
Interest Group is proud to announce its program schedule for the 1998 conference
in Denver, Colorado. Please support the HCIG through your attendance
at these excellent panels. Also note that the HCIG
business meeting will be held on Sunday evening in Salon A at 5:30 pm.
Please join us for important updates on the group's status. Then
following the meeting, celebrate our first anniversary at a reception for
HCIG members.
1998 WSCA CONFERENCE PROGRAM
and
1998
Participant List
| SOCIAL
SUPPORT AND EMPOWERMENT ISSUES IN HEALTH COMMUNICATION |
Sunday, February
15
8:00-9:20am
Salon A |
Social support from voluntary support groups, on-line
listservs, family and friends, physicians and other health care providers
can lead to individual and community empowerment - feeling in control of
one's health, one's mental ability to
deal with illness, and one's ability to provide input into the health
care system for one's own well-being. The research of panel discussants
focuses on the links between support and empowerment in health communication
across a variety of illnesses and cultural groups.
Chair: Anne McIntosh, The Steve Hodges Foundation
-
Culture, Empowerment, and Community: Implications for Communicating
about Health to Asian Americans
-
Gust A. Yep, San Francisco State University
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PAH-MD: On-line Medical and Community Network Building Support
-
Anne McIntosh, The Steve Hodges Foundation
-
The Self-Concept of Cancer Patients: Renegotiation in Interaction
Charlotte Jones, Carroll College
-
Las Promotoras: Empowerment and Social Support In Community Health Networks
Robbin Crabtree, New Mexico State University
Leigh Arden Ford, New Mexico State University
Moderator/Summarizer: Gary Kreps, Hofstra University
| COMPETITIVE
PAPERS: TOP THREE PAPERS IN HEALTH COMMUNICATION |
Sunday, February
15th
1:00-2:20pm
Salon A |
Chair: Leigh Arden Ford, New Mexico State University
-
Effects of Culture, Role Expectations, and Relational Messages on Assessments
of University Health Care Providers
Claudia Ladeira McCalman, University of Texas - Pan American
Daniel J. Canary, Pennsylvania State University
-
Breast Cancer Screening Among Low-Income African-American Women: A Tailored
Computer Assisted Instruction Approach
Jeff Springston, Indiana University - Indianapolis
-
From Organs to Blood:Using an Extension of the Theory of Reasoned Action
to Predict Intent to Donate
Jennifer Kopfman, University of Toledo
Mary L. Brown, University of Arizona
Respondent: Gust A. Yep, San Francisco State
University
| COMPETITIVE
PAPERS: MEDIA, POLITICS, AND MEANING:
THE FRAMING
OF CONTROVERSIAL HEALTH ISSUES |
Sunday, February 15th
4:00-5:20pm
Salon A |
Chair: Christie Vargas, New Mexico State University
-
A Culture of Fear: Attempting to Navigate Our Way Through AIDS
Orthodoxy
G. Nigel Brookes, San Diego State University
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Conflict Over Contraception: Newspaper Coverage of Norplant
Beth Gallovic, University of Maryland
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The AIDS Walk as a Communication Campaign: An Analysis of Persuasion
Strategies in a Community Awareness Event Campaign
Elizabeth Dickinson, New Mexico State University
Respondent: Jennifer Kopfman, University of Toledo
| COMPETITIVE
PAPERS: SUPPORTIVE
CONNECTIONS AND COMMUNICATION IN THE MANAGEMENT
OF STRESSORS |
Sunday, February
15th
4:00-5:20pm
Matty Silks |
Chair: Denise W. Cecil, University of New Mexico
-
Persons Without a Voice: An Exploratory Study of Communication
by Laryngectomees
Al Weitzel, San Diego State University
-
The College Tradition of "Drink til You Drop": The Relationship Between
Students' Social Networks and Engaging in Risky Behaviors
Alicia A. Marshall, Texas A & M University
Clifford W. Scherer, Cornell University
Kevin Real, Texas A & M University
-
Coping With Cadavers: Emotion Management in Medical School
Andrea Roth, University of Montana
Respondent: Scott Moore, California State University,
Fresno
| CASE
STUDIES IN OBTAINING AND PERFORMING FUNDED
RESEARCH IN HEALTH COMMUNICATION |
Monday, February
16
8:30-9:50am
Salon A |
This panel showcases five programs of health communication
research that have been funded by university, private, and government sources.
Audience members are encouraged to come prepared to discuss their ideas
for health communication research. After presenting their own case
studies, the audience members will present their ideas; then the panelists
and audience members will engage in brainstorming designed to identify
possible sources of funding for these ideas.
Chair: Sandi W. Smith, Michigan State University
-
A Test of Inconsistent Nurturing as Control Theory: A FIRST(First
Independent Research Support and Transition) Award from NIDA (National
Institute of Drug Abuse)
Beth A. Le Poire, University of California at Santa Barbara
-
Obtaining Funding to Study End-of-Life Communication
Stephen C. Hines, West Virginia University
-
A Patchwork Approach to Funded Research in Health Communication
Leigh Arden Ford, New Mexico State University
Robbin D. Crabtree, New Mexico State University
-
Studying Audience Responses to Televised Liquor Advertising
Charles K. Atkin, Michigan State University
Sandi W. Smith, Michigan State University
-
The Politics of Funding Controversial Research: The Case of Transgender
Commercial Sex Workers
Gust A. Yep, San Francisco State University
|
WOMEN'S
VOICES IN HEALTH COMMUNICATION: A
DIALOGUE "BETWEEN" AND "WITHIN" OURSELVES
|
Monday, February
16
10:00-11:20am
Salon A |
Efforts to redress the marginalization of women and
to emphasize women's health issues in communication research present great
challenges to researchers. For this panel several women conducting communication
research on women's health issues engage in dialogue among themselves and
with the audience about these challenges. The discussants will use
examples from their own work to illustrate issues such as (1) the nature
of the relationship between the researcher and the participants, (2) the
ethical, moral, and legal obligations of such studies, (3) the selection
of methods and the meaning of those methods for the researcher and the
female participants, (4) the intended and unintended consequences of this
research for the participants and for the researcher, and (5) the theoretical
implications of this work for communication research.