Call for abstracts - CDC Health Comm Conference

The CDC is soliciting abstracts for their 2nd Annual National Conference on Health Communication, Marketing and Media. The conference will be held on August 12-14, 2008, in Atlanta. Abstract submission deadline is April 18. Visit their Web site for more info:

http://www.cdc.gov/HealthMarketing/conference2008-abstracts.htm

Next mtg April 1: Attention to news & alcohol-control policy support

Our next meeting will be held Tuesday, April 1, from 12:30-1:30 in Derby 3116. First-year master's student Dana Eisenberg will present a paper that she co-authored with Mike Slater entitled "Examining the Roles of Exposure and Attention to News Media on Adolescent Support for Alcohol-Control Policies." Their paper was accepted to the Kentucky Conference on Health Communication, which will take place later in April. Congrats, Dana!

Next mtg 4/4 - Tailored Web sites to enhance substance abuse treatment

Please join us at the last meeting of the quarter on Tuesday, March 4, 12:30-1:30, in Derby 3116. Dr. Bill Gardner (Professor of Pediatrics, Psychology, & Psychiatry at OSU) will be presenting on "Using Messaging to Support Substance Abuse Treatment in Adolescents and Young Adults." He's interested in using tailored Web sites, and possibly avatars, to enhance primary-care-based treatment. He's submitting a proposal and would like feedback from communications and new-media perspectives. Hope to see you there!

Presentation at College of Public Health: "Health and International Humanitarian Assistance: 30 Years of Evolution"

This presentation may be of interest to members....

The OSU College of Public Health and the OSU Center for African Studies are pleased to sponsor a presentation on

"Health and International Humanitarian Assistance: 30 Years of Evolution"
Dr. Ron Waldman, MD, MPH
Columbia University, Mailman School of Public Health
USAID, Team Leader, Pandemic Planning/Humanitarian Response

Wednesday, March 5, 2008
3:30 - 5:00
Younkin Success Center, Room 150
1640 Neil Avenue (across from the OSU Medical Center)

Dr.Waldman will discuss the evolution of humanitarian assistance over the past 30 years, with a strong emphasis on the health and nutrition sectors. He will cover aspects of the complex emergencies in Somalia, Sudan and Mozambique. Lessons learned from events surrounding the genocide in Rwanda will be highlighted. The role of the United Nations, bilateral donors, and non-governmental organizations and their ability to work in the face of extensive human rights abuses will form the basis for discussion.

After receiving his medical degree from the University of Geneva, Dr. Waldman began his career as a volunteer in the World Health Organization's Global Smallpox Eradication Program in Bangladesh. He joined the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in 1977 and, during his 25 years there, helped develop the epidemiology of refugee health by working in crises in Somalia, the Democratic Republic of Congo, and Eastern Europe. He also served as a regional epidemiologist, based in West Africa, for the Combatting Communicable Diseases of Childhood Program, as Secretary of WHO's Task Force on Cholera Control, and as Technical Director of the global child survival project, BASICS.

He is the founder of the Program on Forced Migration and Health at the Mailman School of Public Health of Columbia University where he is Professor of Clinical Population and Public Health. Dr. Waldman serves on the Board of Overseers of the International Rescue Committee, the Board of Directors of Physicians for Human Rights, and has published extensively on complex emergencies and on child health in developing countries.

Free and open to the public. For more information contact cas@osu.edu or 292-8169.

Matthew Kreuter talk 2/27

Mike wants to encourage everyone to attend a presentation next week by Matthew Kreuter, who's speaking next week at the OSU Comprehensive Cancer Center.

Wednesday, February 27
12:00 noon
Rm 518 of the James Cancer Hospital

Speaker:
Matthew W. Kreuter, PhD, MPH
Professor, Department of Community Health
Director, Health Communication Research Laboratory
St. Louis University School of Public Health

Presentation:
Communication-Based Strategies to Eliminate Cancer Disparities

Lunch available at 11:45 a.m. RSVP: katie.trego@osumc.edu

Next meeting Feb 19 - video to promote cancer screening

At our next meeting, Dr. Mira Katz from the College of Public Health will discuss the development of a video to improve patient knowledge and communication with healthcare providers about colorectal cancer screening.

Next meeting Feb 5 - Hayes talk on moderation/mediation

Please join us at our next meeting on Tues, Feb 5, 12:30-1:30, in Derby 3116. Dr. Andrew Hayes will discuss mediation, moderated mediation, and related issues. He'll also discuss SPSS & SAS macros he and his associates have developed to assess hypotheses involving those mechanisms. You can check out his macros on his Web site: http://www.comm.ohio-state.edu/ahayes/.

Also, we are still in need of presenters on Mar 4, Apr 15, and Apr 29. Please let me or Mike Slater know if you're interested!

New Goodall & Roberto publication on teaching health communication

Congrats to Catherine Goodall and Tony Roberto for their recent publication in Communication Teacher entitled “An Inconvenient Truth: An application of the extended parallel process model.” Communication Teacher is the field’s only peer-reviewed teaching publication. Published by the National Communication Association, Communication Teacher publishes exemplary and original “ideas and strategies for the classroom.” You can email Catherine if you’d like a copy of the manuscript/activity.

$3 million NIDA grant to Dr. Raup-Krieger and colleagues!

Please join me in congratulating Janice Raup-Krieger, who (with her colleagues from Penn State University) received a five-year $3,272,367 grant from the National Institute on Drug Abuse. The grant will allow the researchers to study how their federally-recognized "keepin' it REAL" drug-prevention curriculum is adapted when used by rural middle schools in PA and OH. Congratulations, Janice!

Next meeting Jan 22 - physician-patient communication

* Quick reminder that we're meeting next Tuesday, January 22, at noon in Derby 3116. PhD student Parul Jain will be presenting some research on physician-patient communication. Her talk will focus on the communicative challenges that international medical graduates face in the US and how those challenges could impact the health outcomes/health related quality of life in their patients.

* If you have not presented yet this quarter, please sign up for a date! The available dates are Mar 4, Apr 15, Apr 29, and May 13. Completed research, research-in-progress, proposals, etc., are all welcome. Please e-mail Nori Comello or Mike Slater if you have questions.

Next meeting Jan 8 - Cancer patient blogs

Happy New Year! Please join us at our next brown-bag meeting on Tuesday, Jan 8, 12:30-1:30, in Derby 3116. Second-year PhD student Jatin Srivastava will discuss a study he'd like to conduct on cancer patient blogs and would like feedback from the group. Hope to see you there!

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!