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Promoting folic acid to Spanish-speaking Hispanic women: evaluating existing campaigns to guide new developmentMichael Mackert
The University of Texas at Austin, Department of Advertising, College of Communication, Austin, Texas 78712, USA
Women Health 50:376-95. 2010..Such strategies may necessitate targeting younger audiences, including teenagers...
Health literacy awareness training for healthcare workers: improving knowledge and intentions to use clear communication techniquesMichael Mackert
Department of Advertising, The University of Texas, Austin, TX, USA
Patient Educ Couns 85:e225-8. 2011....
Older adolescents' perceptions and intentions regarding Do-It-Yourself Genetic Assessment servicesMichael Mackert
Department of Advertising, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, USA
J Spec Pediatr Nurs 17:159-67. 2012..The purpose of this research was to investigate older adolescents' perceptions of Do-It-Yourself Genetic Assessment (DIYGA) services online and factors that influence their intentions to utilize DIYGA services...
Health literacy as controversy: an online community's discussion of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration acetaminophen recommendationsMichael Mackert
Department of Advertising, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas 78712 0116, USA
Qual Health Res 21:1607-17. 2011..Recommendations for future research into public perceptions of health literacy are discussed...
Cluster analysis identifies subpopulations for health promotion campaign designMichael Mackert
Department of Advertising, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, USA
Public Health Nurs 28:451-7. 2011..The implications of cluster analysis, from guiding additional formative research to development of health communication strategies, are discussed...
Undermining of nutrition and exercise decisions: experiencing negative social influenceMichael Mackert
Department of Advertising, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas 78712 0116, USA
Public Health Nurs 28:402-10. 2011..The objective of this research was to assess social undermining (negative interpersonal influence) on health behaviors in a large sample of Internet users...
Educational content and health literacy issues in direct-to-consumer advertising of pharmaceuticalsMichael Mackert
Department of Advertising, The University of Texas at Austin, 1 University Station A1200, Austin, TX 78712 0116, USA
Health Mark Q 28:205-18. 2011..g., other strategies for dealing with conditions). Issues likely to be barriers to low health literate consumers, such as nonstandard text formatting, are common...
Health literacy knowledge among direct-to-consumer pharmaceutical advertising professionalsMichael Mackert
Department of Advertising, The University of Texas, Austin, TX 78712, USA
Health Commun 26:525-33. 2011..Directions for future research are considered, as more investigation of this understudied group is necessary to enrich the DTC prescription drug advertising debate...
Journalism as health education: media coverage of a nonbranded pharma web siteMichael Mackert
Department of Advertising, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas 78712 0116, USA
Telemed J E Health 17:88-94. 2011....
Designing e-health interventions for low-health-literate culturally diverse parents: addressing the obesity epidemicMichael Mackert
Department of Advertising, The University of Texas at Austin, TX 78712, USA
Telemed J E Health 15:672-7. 2009..E-health can be used to educate low-health-literate audiences, but interventions designed for these users must be layered in terms of content and usability to meet varying levels of functional and media literacy...
Successful adoption of a school-based telemedicine systemMichael Mackert
Department of Advertising, The University of Texas at Austin, 1 University Station A1200, Austin, TX 78712 0116, USA
J Sch Health 77:327-30. 2007..TeleKidcare makes use of interactive television systems located in the school health office to let school nurses interact with KUMC physicians to provide consultations for sick children...
Ensuring children eat a healthy diet: a theory-driven focus group study to inform communication aimed at parentsLeeAnn Kahlor
Department of Advertising and Public Relations, 1 University Station, University of Texas at Austin, TX, USA
J Pediatr Nurs 26:13-24. 2011..The results showed the particular salience of factors related to the TPB concepts of perceived norms and control. Approaches to building theory-driven nursing interventions are suggested...
A systematic review of literature about the genetic testing of adolescentsLynn Rew
The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, USA
J Spec Pediatr Nurs 14:284-94. 2009..Mapping of the human genome raises interest in and concern about the genetic testing of adolescents. Our purpose was to determine the attitudes and knowledge adolescents and their parents have about genetic testing...
Memory performance, health literacy, and instrumental activities of daily living of community residing older adultsGraham J McDougall
School of Nursing, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX 78701 1499, USA
Nurs Res 61:70-5. 2012....
Health literacy issues among women with visual impairmentsTracie C Harrison
School of Nursing, The University of Texas at Austin, 1700 Red River, Austin, TX 78701, USA
Res Gerontol Nurs 3:49-60. 2010....
Perceptions of infertility information and support sources among female patients who access the InternetLeeAnn Kahlor
Center for Women s and Gender Studies, Department of Advertising and Public Relations, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas 78712 1092, USA
Fertil Steril 91:83-90. 2009..To evaluate perceived helpfulness of and reliance on infertility information and support sources and correlates of online information and support seeking among infertile women...
Systematic review of psychosocial benefits and harms of genetic testingLynn Rew
University of Texas at Austin, School of Nursing, Austin, Texas 78701, USA
Issues Ment Health Nurs 31:631-45. 2010..As technologies increase, genetic testing will expand and psychiatric mental health nurses must be prepared to meet the challenges of psychosocial disorders that may develop in response to genetic testing...
Cool, but is it credible? Adolescents' and parents' approaches to genetic testingLynn Rew
University of Texas at Austin, TX, USA
West J Nurs Res 32:610-27. 2010..These findings have implications for developing interventions and public health policy highlighted by the need for improved education about the benefits and harms of genetic testing...
An investigation of exercise and the placebo effectDixie Stanforth
The University of Texas at Austin, Kinesiology and Health Education, USA
Am J Health Behav 35:257-68. 2011..To replicate previous research that concluded exercise affects health via a placebo effect: simply telling workers with physically active jobs that their "work is exercise" improves health...
Expanding the theoretical foundations of telemedicineMichael Mackert
J Telemed Telecare 12:49-50. 2006
Telehospice carries end-of-life care over the linesPamela Whitten
Telecommunications Department, Michigan State University, USA
Nurs Manage 34:36-9. 2003..Outline the positive and negative predictors of telehospice use, namely its impact on organizational and management issues...
