Next meeting Nov 27: International health comm

Please join us at our last brown-bag meeting of the quarter on Tuesday, Nov 27, 12:30-1:30pm in Derby 3116. Our theme is international health communication. School of Communication alum Emily Burkhart and faculty members Tony Roberto and Janice Raup-Krieger will be presenting on their experiences working on health issues abroad.

Emily will talk about her trip this past summer to Uganda, where she visited many sites (from public/private hospitals, clinics, and NGO offices), interviewed health professionals, and gained insight on a variety of issues. Janice and Tony will be presenting on the initial stages of a research project they are conducting in Bangladesh in collaboration with the International Breast Cancer Foundation (IBCRF). The project will develop a culturally appropriate intervention to increase awareness among Bangladeshi women and their families of free, walk-in breast problem clinics that have been developed by the IBCRF and Amader Gram (a non-profit organization focused on social issues in rural Bangladesh).

Hope to see you there!

Next meeting Nov 13: Discussion of journal articles

Please join us at our next meeting on Nov 13, 12:30-1:30pm, in Derby 3116. We're going to try something different at this meeting -- instead of having a presentation, we'll be discussing a couple of articles that address potential mechanisms behind persuasive message effects. Both articles have implications for health and other persuasive comm research.

Both of the articles are available in full text on Ken DeMarree's Web site: http://www.psy.ohio-state.edu/gap/demarree/

Wheeler, S. C., DeMarree, K. G., & Petty, R. E. (2007). Understanding the role of the self in prime-to-behavior effects: The Active-Self account. Personality and Social Psychology Review, 11, 234-261.

Petty, R. E., Briñol, P., & DeMarree, K. G. (in press). The Meta-Cognitive Model (MCM) of attitudes: Implications for attitude measurement, change, and strength. Social Cognition.

Hope to see you there!

Next meeting Oct 30

Please join us at our next meeting on Tuesday, October 30, 12:30 - 1:30 pm, in Derby 3116. Faculty members Anthony Roberto and Janice Raup-Krieger will present on "Using targeting and tailoring to enhance prevention messages for Hispanics." Hope to see you there!

New data analysis sourcebook from Hayes & Slater

Our own Andrew Hayes and Michael Slater have a new book coming out in November called The SAGE Sourcebook of Advanced Data Analysis Methods for Communication Research. This is a must-have resource for students and faculty who want to learn more about statistical topics such as assessing mediation, latent growth modeling, multilevel modeling, propensity scoring, or time series analysis. Here's a link to the table of contents.
http://www.sagepub.com/booksProdTOC.nav?prodId=Book228339&currTree=Courses&level1=Course10

Andrew and Michael are co-editors of and contributors to this text. Also, as many of you know, Andrew has another statistics textbook, the famous Statistical Methods for Communication Science.
http://www.comm.ohio-state.edu/ahayes/SMCS/default.htm

And Michael has had years of experience as principal investigator of NIDA funded randomized community trials -- in terms of evaluation design and analysis, one of the toughest challenges.

How lucky we are to have this level of expertise in HCRG and the School of Communication!

NIH Submission Process Workshop & Panel Discussion

For those of you interested in learning how to apply for NIH funding, OSU will be holding a workshop Wednesday, Oct. 31 from 10:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. at the Biomedical Research Tower, room 115.

This workshop will examine specific areas of the National Institutes of Health's (NIH) grant submission process. Staff from NIH will provide detailed information on the Pathway Independence Awards and a brief description of the new Exceptional, Unconventional Research Enabling Knowledge Acceleration (EUREKA) program. There will also be a panel of investigators who have received funding from NIH that will share their experiences working with this sponsor throughout proposal development and submission and project management.

**Lunch will be provided.

Contact rees.1@osu.edu for more information. Registration required at: http://rf.osu.edu/inf/e-cal.cfm#186

Next meeting Oct 16

Please join us at our next brown-bag meeting on Tuesday, Oct 16, 12:30-1:30 p.m., in Derby 3116. I'll be taking a turn at presenting; the title is "Examining Self-Concepts and Prototypes as Formative Research for Marijuana Prevention Campaigns."

We'll also devote some time at this meeting to organizational issues. Please be prepared to discuss ideas for presenting your research and for other activities you'd like to see throughout the year.

Thanks, and see you there!

Survey Research Colloquium - Dr. David to present

HCRG member Dr. Prabu David will be presenting his research on the use of mobile devices in health contexts at a Survey Research Colloquium on Wednesday, Oct 17, 12:30-1:30 p.m., in Derby 1039. The talk is sponsored by the Graduate Interdisciplinary Specialization in Survey Research.
http://www.sbs.ohio-state.edu/sbs/gissr.php

Please consider attending to support a fellow HCRG member!

Implicit Attitudes - Links to more info

Thanks to everyone who came to our first meeting, and to Cat Goodall for presenting! Given the interest/questions on implicit attitudes generated by Cat's presentation, I'm posting some resources that you might want to check out:

Implicit Association Test:
https://implicit.harvard.edu/implicit/
Includes a cool demonstration and a chance to participate in actual research using this measure.

Affect Misattribution Procedure:
http://www.unc.edu/~bkpayne/publications/Payne_2005_An-Inkblot-for-Attitudes.pdf
Article describing the use of ambiguous stimuli in projective tests. The Chinese character Cat used is an example of such a stimulus.

Lexical Decision Task:
http://www.essex.ac.uk/psychology/experiments/lexical.html
Another online demonstration. This one involves decisions as to whether letter strings are words or not. We didn't discuss this type of measure at the meeting, and this demo doesn't get at how primes can make it easier to recognize words related to the primed construct. But it does demonstrate the basic recognition task.

First meeting & call for presentations

Welcome to another academic year!

* Please come to our first meeting scheduled for October 2, Tuesday, 12:30-1:30pm, Derby Hall 3116. Third-yearPhD student Cat Goodall will present her research on the effects of alcohol advertising on implicit attitudes about alcohol and on willingness and intentions to engage in risky behavior. We plan to meet on alternate Tuesdays this year, so please mark your calendars!

* If you have any research you would like to present, please let me (Nori Comello) or Dr. Mike Slater know. Last year, members presented research-in-progress, completed research, and research proposals for discussion and feedback from the group. Available dates for Autumn quarter meetings are Oct 16, Oct 30, Nov 13 (tentative due to NCA conference), and Nov 27.

We welcome your contributions and suggestions. Hope to see you at our first meeting!

And yet more OSU Health Comm top papers

The string continues...

Congratulations to Tony Roberto (with Cat Goodall as a co-author) and Janice Krieger for snagging two of the top 3 faculty papers in Health Communication at NCA 2007!

That’s at least three years in a row where an OSU health communication faculty has had a Top Three Paper at a ICA or NCA conference (I had one at ICA with Nori Comello in 2007, Prabu David had one at ICA in 2006, Don Cegala had one at NCA in 2005, and Tony Roberto had one at both NCA and ICA in 2005). We’ve also had a nice record of Top Student Papers in Health Com (Kellie Carlyle got a Top Student Paper at ICA in 2005, and Catherine Goodall received the Top Student-lead paper at ICA in 2006 – coauthored with Dr. Osei Appiah).

Krippendorf's alpha macro

Andrew Hayes's discussion of the Krippendorf alpha macro is available from his web site:
http://www.comm.ohio-state.edu/ahayes/ (under SPSS and SAS macros).

Catherine Goodall wins 2007 Outstanding Researcher Award!

Catherine Goodall was recipient of the Emery Award for Outstanding Researcher at the School of Communication's 2007 Comm Day ceremony (which comes with a very nice plaque and $1,000). This award goes to a M.A. or Ph.D. student with the best research record in the School that is not entering their final year of the program. There were several excellent candidates for this award, but Catherine ultimately won because even though she is only in her second year of graduate school, she already has three publications (including a first authored publication in Health Communication -- a highly regarded top-tier journal), and two top paper awards (including a top student-lead paper in the Health Communication division of ICA). Please join me in congratulating Catherine for winning this prestigious award, and her excellent work over the past two years.

Final Meeting Monday May 14th!

Our final meeting of the year will be held this Monday, May 14^th from 12 to 1 p.m. in 3116 Derby Hall. Dr. Andrew Hayes will be presenting on various content-analysis issues, including his recommendations—and SPSS macros—for assessing inter-coder reliability. Please also bring ideas for next year’s meetings.

We will be celebrating a successful first year of the group with a pizza lunch from Donatos, including vegetarian (i.e., healthy!) options. Water will be provided.

See you there!

Upcoming psych colloquia

Hi everyone:

There are three colloquia in the psych department in May that you might be interested in.

* Tobacco prevention research interests? On May 10 @ 2pm, Dr. Gary Berntson from the Behavioral Neuroscience Program will speak on "Tobacco Woes & the Miracle of Marlboro: A Case Study in the Conflation of Science and Industry (or Science and Reality)." Location: 035 Psych Bldg.

* Using perceived norms as a variable and/or wanna hear someone who's been, well, influential in the field of influence? On May 10 @ 4pm, Dr. Robert Cialdini will give a talk on injunctive and descriptive norms. He'll be talking about applications in environmental research, but the distinction between these types of norms has been important in health comm/prevention research, too. Location: 035 Psych Bldg. http://sbig.org.ohio-state.edu/06-07/Cialdini.html

* Identity or social comparison research interests? On May 17 @ 4pm, Dr. Marilyn Brewer will give a talk with the intriguing title "The Human Dilemma: Being the Same and Different at the Same Time." Location: Wexner Center Film/Video Theater. This is one in a series of University Distinguished Lectures, so there will be a reception to follow.

You can check out the pscyh department's Web site for more information, although I have to say that there isn't one place that lists everything (since they're put on by different research groups). http://www.psy.ohio-state.edu/

Nori

New grant competition

As posted on the OSU COPS blog... might be of interest to HCRG members.

SPECIAL CALL DEADLINE: July 1st, 2007

ATTENTION ALL SOCIAL SCIENTISTS AND PUBLIC HEALTH RESEARCHERS:
NEW OPPORTUNITIES FOR ORIGINAL DATA COLLECTION VIA TESS!

The National Science Foundation, in cooperation with the Department of Homeland Security, is funding opportunities for original data collection for research that has potential relevance to the concerns of DHS. Three broad substantive areas have been identified as relevant and likely avenues for research:

1. Risk communication and its effects on disaster preparedness
2. Government and individual attributions of responsibility and perceived responsiveness; and
3. Inter-group threat and cooperation

Other areas of research with relevance to terrorism, disaster preparedness, or related public health and medical issues will also be considered.

Data collection for these projects will be paid for and conducted with the assistance of Time-sharing Experiments for the Social Sciences (TESS). As with other TESS applications, only a short, 5 page proposal is required.

TESS offers researchers opportunities to test their experimental ideas on large, diverse, randomly selected subject populations, or on specific subsamples of the population (based on geographic location, demographics, or other criteria). For more information on this special call or on TESS opportunities more generally, and for examples of TESS studies completed in the past, please visit our home page at www.ExperimentCentral.org.

PLEASE NOTE: For those with other areas of interest, TESS continues to fund data collection for survey-experimental work in all areas of the social sciences, and for graduate student and faculty investigators in all disciplines. These proposals are accepted on a rolling basis, and we will continue accepting new proposals as our funding allows.

4/30 meeting canceled

Because of the School's external review on Monday, 4/30, the HCRG meeting is canceled. Please check back for announcements on the next meeting's schedule.

Call for presentations 4/30

There is an opening for a presentation from any HCRG member at our next meeting April 30th. Please email hoffman.405@osu.edu or slater.59@osu.edu if you are interested!

Our next meeting, Monday 4/16

Our next HCRG meeting will be Monday, April 16 from 12 to 1 p.m. in 3116 Derby Hall. The first half-hour will be open discussion, and Dr. Robert Agunga will present from 12:30 to 1 p.m. Below is a description of his presentation.

Dr. Robert Agunga, Associate Professor in Agricultural Communication with a courtesy associate professor appointment in the School of Communication, a member of the Health Communication Group, and a 2007/8 Fulbright Scholar will present his research on "Communication and poverty reduction in Africa."

As a Fulbright Scholar, Dr. Agunga will spend a year at the University of Malawi, Bunda College of Agriculture, in southern Africa where he will assist in developing a graduate curriculum in development communication and conduct field research on communication for poverty reduction toward a book on Communication for development in Africa that will focus on the role of communication in achieving the United Nations Millennium Development Goals.

Welcome to PhD student Parul Jain

Parul Jain, who received her masters degree from Wake Forest and who is transferring from Texas A&M, will be joining us at OSU this fall. Welcome to Parul!

HCRG Welcomes Dana Eisenberg to OSU

Dana Eisenberg just informed me that she will be joining our M.A. program in the fall. Dana is graduating from The College of New Jersey this Spring, and will be coming to OSU with a number of impressive credentials already under her belt (including multiple conference papers and even a top paper award at NCA). Please join me in Welcoming Dana to OSU!

New health communication web sites

As in the past, the Coalition for Health Communication has provided a thorough list of healch communication web sites categorized by topic. Go to http://www.healthcommunication.net/Online_Resources.html
to see the full list.

Next meeting April 2nd

Have a great spring break! Our next meeting will be April 2nd in Derby Hall, Room 3116 as usual.

Janice, Tony, Mira receive Population and Health Seed Grant Won!

Congratulations are in order.
Anthony Roberto, Janice Raup Krieger, and Mira Katz (Public Health) have been awarded $59,510 through the Population and Health Targeted Investment in Excellence initiative with funds provided by the Provost's Office for their proposal, Development of a Community-based Intervention to Improve Acceptance of the Human Papillomavirus Vaccine in Appalachia.
This is a really exciting opportunity to develop a major funded line of research on this timely topic with a population with unduly high cervical cancer rates.
And I can say (as a member of the review team--recused of course from review of their proposal) that this seed money competition involved many senior scholars and sophisticated proposals from around campus; this award meant that a diverse review group including representation from economics, psychology, and public health all found the proposal exciting and well-conceived.

Mike Slater and Nori Commello Receive Top Paper Award at ICA

Congratulations to Mike Slater (SBS Distinguished Professor) and Nori Commello (Ph.D. student) for their Top Three Paper in the Health Communication Division at ICA this year. Their paper is entitled “Issue Concern and Risk Judgments as Mediators of News Influence on Support for Alcohol Control Policies.”

Note: That’s at least three years in a row where an OSU health communication faculty has had a Top Three Paper at a national or international conference (Prabu David had one at ICA in 2006, Don Cegala had one at NCA in 2005, and I had one at both NCA and ICA in 2005). We’ve also had a nice streak of Top Student Papers in Health Com (Kellie Carlyle got a Top Student Paper at ICA in 2005, and Catherine Goodall received the Top Student-lead paper at ICA in 2006 – coauthored with Dr. Osei Appiah). Great work everyone! And thanks to Mike and Nori for continuing this impressive streak!

Putting Your (Health Comm) Money Where Your Mouth Is: Bangladesh's One Taka Coin

Greetings everyone, At today’s HCRG meeting I passed out one taka coins (the taka is the monetary unit in Bangladesh). I think these coins represent an excellent example of how a country is (literally) putting its money where its mouth is when it comes to a health communication campaign (overpopulation and hunger are still very real problems in Bangladesh -- and the visual and written message on the one taka coin is aimed at preventing both of these problems).

If you didn’t get a coin today, I have lots left (so feel free to stop by my office to get a couple). I’ve also included an image of the coin with this post in case you want to use it as an example in class, etc.. Note: The slogan on the coin reads: “Planned Family – Food For All.” Hope you find this as interesting as I do. Cordially, Tony Roberto

congrats to Kellie Carlyle accepting ASU job

Join me in congratulating PhD candidate Kellie Carlyle, who has accepted a tenure-track assistant professor position at Arizona State University starting next fall. She had several other exciting opportunities, but ASU looks like a great fit for her work on mediated and interpersonal communication approaches to preventing and addressing intimate partner violence.

Next HCRG meeting: March 5

Lindsay Hoffman will be presenting a research proposal on effects of media presentations of menopause. As usual, please come to 3116 Derby Hall at 12 noon and feel free to bring a lunch or snack. Nori Comello will also be presenting on some of her research. We will also discuss the next quarter's meeting schedule, as this is the last meeting of Winter quarter.

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Recent grad publishes book based on her dissertation

An OSU School of Communication graduate has a forthcoming book from Cambria Press that is based on her dissertation. Juliann Cortese (Ph.D., 2005) was an advisee of Chip Eveland and her book, "Internet Learning and the Building of Knowledge," looks at how design elements such as pop-up windows and hyperlinks influence knowledge structure density as well as definitional and factual knowledge. The book is a great example of one of our former students' successes, but is also relevant to any HCRG members working on new technology, learning, and health information seeking.

You can order the book from Amazon or directly from Cambria Press.

Next HCRG meeting: Feb 5

Our next meeting is scheduled for Monday Feb. 5th at 12 noon. Dr. Mira Katz from the School of Public Health and Dr. Janice Raup-Krieger from the School of Communication are presenting about a content analysis of newspaper articles about the HPV vaccine.

Hope to see you there!

Next meeting, Jan 22nd

Our next Health Communication Research Group meeting will be in 3116 Derby Hall Monday, Jan 22nd at 12 noon. Jason Reineke, a doctoral student in the School of Communication, will be presenting.

As always, feel free to bring lunch or a snack (and it doesn't have to be healthy!). See you then.