1999 Convention Program

3213 TEACHING THE HEALTH COMMUNICATION COURSE: ISSUES AND APPROACHES

8:30-9:50, Sunday, February 21, Brighton

Presented by Health Communication Interest Group

This program examines instruction of the health communication course at five different institutions. The panelists will present the goals/objectives, syllabi, and assignments and activities of their respective courses. In addition, the politics and pragmatics of teaching this course as part of the communication curriculum will be discussed. Following a brief description of each participant's course, a roundtable will ensue. Audience members are encouraged to participate.

Panelists: Leigh Ford, New Mexico State University
Madeline Keaveny, California State University, Chico
Sandra Ragan, University of Oklahoma
Bryan Whaley, University of San Francisco
Gust A. Yep, San Francisco State University

3413 SERVICE LEARNING IN THE HEALTH COMMUNICATION COURSE: REFLECTIONS ON FOUR CASE STUDIES

11:30-12:50, Sunday, February 21, Brighton

Presented by Health Communication Interest Group

As a follow-up session to the panel on teaching the health communication course, this panel features the work of four students who participated in service learning experiences as a part of such a course. Following a brief presentation by each participant of her work with the community, a roundtable discussion will ensue focusing on the benefits and drawbacks of such assignments in the health communication course. Audience members are encouraged to participate.

Chair: Leigh Arden Ford, New Mexico State University

Communicating about Health to Adolescents in a High School Wellness Center
Jennifer Anderson, New Mexico State University

Worksite Health Promotion: Communication and Staff Wellness at a Senior High School
Michelle Dixon, New Mexico State University

Assessing Communication Practices in an Alternative Health Clinic
Paige Johnson, New Mexico State University

Assessing Social Support and Health Communication in a Teen Parent Residence
Sandra S. Deerman, New Mexico State University

3513 COMMUNICATION IN HEALTH CARE SETTINGS: QUALITATIVE AND QUANTITATIVE APPROACHES

1:00-2:20, Sunday, February 21 Regency Centre

Presented by Health Communication Interest Group

Chair: Nikki Townsley, Purdue University

Key Issues Impacting Assisted Suicide Narratives
Renee Maday, Arizona State University

Following Doctors' Orders: Registered Nurses' Representations of Nurse-Doctor Communication
Scott T. Paynton, Humboldt State University

Patient Satisfaction as a Predictor to Patient Attitudes and Propensity toward Change: Gender Differences
Connie J. Conlee, California State University, Fresno
Scott D. Moore, California State University, Fresno

Respondent: Jenifer E. Kopfman, University of Toledo

3613 THE ECOLOGY OF HIV IN AN URBAN MULTICULTURAL UNIVERSITY: CROSS-CULTURAL COMMUNICATION ABOUT HIV THROUGH COMMUNITY SPECIFIC FOCUS GROUPS

2:30-3:50, Sunday, February 21 Regency Centre

Presented by Health Communication Interest Group

The Student Focus Group Project (SFGP) was created to gather, exchange, and disseminate peer-designed and developed HIV/AIDS educational curriculum among young adults in a diverse urban setting that characterizes the San Francisco Bay Area and other West Coast cities. This panel is comprised of peer experts from various cultural, sexual, (dis)ability, and gender constituencies who are coming together in this roundtable discussion to share and exchange information collected through the SFGP in San Francisco.

Panelists:

Sam "Eveni" Levi, San Francisco State University
Ismeni Kiriaze, San Francisco State University
Keith Manglona, San Francisco State University
Diana Sisneros, San Francisco State University
Ricky Anaya, San Francisco State University
Marilyn Ascuncion, San Francisco State University

3713 TOP PAPERS IN HEALTH COMMUNICATION

4:00-5:20, Sunday, February 21 Oxford

Presented by Health Communication Interest Group

Chair: Gust A. Yep, San Francisco State University

Persuasive Health Communication: A Comparison of Stage-Matched Strategies and Traditional Tactics of Lifestyle Change in Cardiac Rehabilitation
Robert Scales, University of New Mexico
Kenneth Frandsen, University of New Mexico

Communicating Efficacy in HIV Prevention Pamphlets: Using Fear Appeal Theory to Promote Self-Efficacy and Response-Efficacy Messages over Threat Messages
Marifran Mattson, Purdue University
Melanie Taylor, Purdue University

Respondent: Christina S. Beck, Ohio University

4213 WOMEN'S VOICES IN HEALTH COMMUNICATION: A DIALOGUE "BETWEEN" AND "WITHIN" OURSELVES (PART II)

10:00-11:20, Monday, February 22, Lord Byron

Presented by Health Communication Interest Group

Efforts to redress the marginalization of women and to emphasize women's health issues in communication research present great challenges to researchers. At last year's WSCA conference we began a dialogue on these challenges and this year we wish to continue and extend our conversation. 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 selection of methods and the meaning of those methods for the researcher and the female participants, (3) the intended and unintended consequences of this research for the participants and for the researcher, and (4) the theoretical implications of this work for communication research. Audience participation in the conversation is encouraged.

Chair: Leigh Arden Ford, New Mexico State University

Prescription for Life, Inscription of Pain: Medical Discourse Writes the Body
S. Renee Gillespe, University of Colorado-Boulder

Latin Women's Voices on AIDS Prevention: Unique Problems of Mexican-American Women in South Texas
Claudia McCalman, Indiana University-Purdue University, Fort Wayne

Parallel Lives and Intersecting Identities: Commonalities and Contrasts in Women's Stories about Coping
Leigh Arden Ford, New Mexico State University

Visible Scars: Developing a Public Rhetoric of Breast Cancer
Barbara Sharf, Texas A & M University

The Challenges of Research in Gynecologic Health Care Communication
Sandra Ragan, University of Oklahoma

Re-presenting Crises: Making Choices, Negotiating Authority, and Giving Voice to Victims of Sexual Harassment
Patricia Geist, San Diego State University
Nikki Townsley, Purdue University

4513 REFLECTING AND RECLAIMING CONTRADICTIONS: CHALLENGING SOCIETAL MESSAGES AND RE-COMPOSING OUR LIFE STORIES

3:40-5:00, Monday, February 22 Oxford

Presented by Health Communication Interest Group

This panel challenges the science of appropriateness so prevalent in current health messages. The papers critically analyze the mixed, often contradictory patterns of communication surrounding misdiagnoses, terminal illness, death, rape, and breast augmentation. In doing so, the authors confront and challenge the social construction of grief, health and beauty, violence, silence, and loss. Even more so, they evoke the powers of our life stories to initiate and facilitate the processes of healing.

Chair: Patricia Geist, San Diego State University

"I Don't Know What to Say to You": Coping with Terminal Illness
Jennifer Ott, San Diego State University

The Silent Language of Grief: One Family's Stories of Loss and Love
Angelica R. Nino, San Diego State University

"Why I Want Them": The Enticement of Silicone Breasts Implants
Marva Leigh Smith, San Diego State University

The Internal Rage, the External Consequence: Discoveries of People with Graves' Disease
Kate Dale, San Diego State University

Unleashing the Silenced Voice: Rewriting our Lived Experiences
Maggie Z. Miller, San Diego State University

Respondent: Nikki C. Townsley, Purdue University