• “I was a little surprised”: Qualitative Insights from Patients Enrolled in a 12-Month Trial Comparing Opioids to Non-Opioid Medications for Chronic Musculoskeletal Pain 

  Matthias, Marianne S.; Donaldson, Melvin T.; Jensen, Agnes C.; Krebs, Erin E. (Elsevier, 2018)

  Chronic musculoskeletal pain is a major public health problem. Although opioid prescribing for chronic pain has increased dramatically since the 1990s, this practice has come under scrutiny because of increases in ...
• Making Sense of Science: Applied Improvisation for Public Communication of Science, Technology, and Health 

  Rossing, Jonathan P.; Hoffmann-Longtin, Krista (Methuen Drama, 2018)
• Twelve tips for using applied improvisation in medical education 

  Hoffmann-Longtin, Krista; Rossing, Jonathan; Weinstein, Elizabeth (Taylor & Francis, 2017)

  Future physicians will practice medicine in a more complex environment than ever, where skills of interpersonal communication, collaboration and adaptability to change are critical. Applied improvisation (or AI) is an ...
• Vaccine hesitancy communication: What counts as evidence 

  Parrish-Sproul, John (Elsevier, 2018)

  The evidence base for vaccine hesitancy communication is generally confined to research focused on the content of the message rather than the process of communication. This has important consequences, because shifting focus ...
• Development of the Chronic Pain Coding System (CPCS) for Characterizing Patient-Clinician Discussions About Chronic Pain and Opioids 

  Henry, Stephen G.; Chen, Meng; Matthias, Marianne S.; Bell, Robert A.; Kravitz, Richard L. (Oxford Academic, 2016-10)

  Objective. To describe the development and initial application of the Chronic Pain Coding System., Design. Secondary analysis of data from a randomized clinical trial., Setting. Six primary care clinics in northern ...
• Understanding Organizations: Interpreting Organizational Communication Cultures 

  Bantz, Charles R.; Pepper, Gerald L. (University of South Carolina Press, 1993-05-01)

  The organizational communication culture method has been used in more than 200 analyses of "real-world" organizations (e.g., a legal services office, a cooperative food store, an engineering unit of a major corporation, a ...
• Emancipatory Racial Humor as Critical Public Pedagogy: Subverting Hegemonic Racism 

  Rossing, Jonathan P. (Wiley, 2016-12)

  This essay identifies emancipatory racial humor as a disarming critical public pedagogy that confronts racial hegemony. Acknowledging the interpretive quandaries of humor and the possibilities of racist humor, this essay ...
• Barriers to guideline-concordant antibiotic use among inpatient physicians: A case vignette qualitative study 

  Livorsi, D.; Comer, A.R.; Matthias, M.S.; Perencevich, E.N.; Bair, M.J. (Wiley, 2016-03)

  BACKGROUND: Greater adherence to antibiotic-prescribing guidelines may promote more judicious antibiotic use, which could benefit individual patients and society at large. OBJECTIVE: To assess physician knowledge ...
• Exploring Parental Influence on the Progression of Alcohol Use in Mexican-Heritage Youth: a Latent Transition Analysis 

  Shin, YoungJu; Lee, Jeong-Kyu; Lu, Yu; Hecht, Michael (Springer, 2016-02)

  Mexican-heritage youth are members of the fastest growing minority group and are at particular risk for substance use including alcohol consumption. Youth face numerous risk factors including positive descriptions of ...
• The Health-Related Uses and Gratifications of YouTube: Motive, Cognitive Involvement, Online Activity, and Sense of Empowerment 

  Park, Daniel Y.; Goering, Elizabeth M. (Taylor & Francis, 2016)

  To better understand the utility of YouTube as a health communication medium, this study utilizes Uses and Gratifications Theory to examine a relationship among motives for health-related YouTube use, cognitive involvement ...
• The Spockian Mother: Images of the “Good” Mother in Dr. Spock’s The Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care, 1946-1992 

  Dobris, Catherine A.; White-Mills, Kim; Davidson, Rachel D.; Wellbrook, Toula V. (Taylor & Francis, 2017)

  Dr. Spock’s, The Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care, one of the best-selling self-help texts of all-time, “second only to the Bible in popularity” (Meakin & Tattersall, 2004) was one of the most influential childcare ...
• Facilitators and Barriers to Participation in a Peer Support Intervention for Veterans With Chronic Pain 

  Matthias, Marianne S.; Kukla, Marina; McGuire, Alan B.; Damush, Teresa M.; Gill, Nabiha; Bair, Matthew J. (Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer) - Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2016-06)

  OBJECTIVE: To understand facilitators and barriers to participation in a peer support intervention for self-management of chronic pain. METHODS: After completing a pilot intervention study, peer coaches and their veteran ...
• Typology of delivery quality: latent profile analysis of teacher engagement and delivery techniques in a school-based prevention intervention, keepin' it REAL curriculum 

  Shin, YoungJu; Miller-Day, Michelle; Pettigrew, Jonathan; Hecht, Michael L.; Krieger, Janice L. (Oxford University Press, 2014-12)

  Enhancing the delivery quality of school-based, evidence-based prevention programs is one key to ensuring uniform program effects on student outcomes. Program evaluations often focus on content dosage when implementing ...
• Informing or Exploiting? Public Reponses to Giuliana Rancic’s Health Narrative 

  Bute, Jennifer J.; Quinlan, Margaret M.; Quandt, Lindsay K. (Taylor & Francis, 2016)

  Popular entertainment journalist Giuliana Rancic has shared her struggles with pregnancy loss, infertility, and breast cancer in an array of public forums. In this study, we analyzed online comments responding to public ...
• Influenza vaccines really work? Keeping apart the true from the false 

  Nguyen-Van-Tam, Jonathan; Gross, Diane; Sturkenboom, Miriam; Parrish-Sprowl, John (Elsevier, 2016-12)
• Visual Fragments and the Politics of Place: Feminist Advocacy in Czech Public Culture 

  Sheeler, Kristina Horn (Taylor and Francis, 2015-07)

  This article analyzes how Forum 50%'s visual “argumentative fragments” respond to and make visible the gendered norms of Czech political culture and advocate for women's increased levels of participation, representation, ...
• Surrogate Decision Makers and Proxy Ownership: Challenges of Privacy Management in Health Care Decision Making 

  Bute, Jennifer J.; Petronio, Sandra; Torke, Alexia M. (Taylor and Francis, 2015-08)

  This study explored the communicative experiences of surrogates who served as decision makers for patients who were unable to convey health information and choices about treatment options. Drawing on assumptions from ...
• A Brief Peer Support Intervention for Veterans with Chronic Musculoskeletal Pain: A Pilot Study of Feasibility and Effectiveness 

  Matthias, Marianne S.; McGuire, Alan B.; Kukla, Marina; Daggy, Joanne; Myers, Laura J.; Bair, Matthew J. (Wiley, 2015-01)

  Objective The aim of this study was to pilot test a peer support intervention, involving peer delivery of pain self-management strategies, for veterans with chronic musculoskeletal pain. Design Pretest/posttest with ...
• Building a “Better Life”: The Transformative Effects of Adolescent Pregnancy and Parenting 

  Cherry, Colleen O'Brien; Chumbler, Neale; Bute, Jennifer; Huff, Amber (Sage, 2015-01)

  Adolescent pregnancy is often described as a major concern in public health and is associated with negative outcomes for educational and career attainment. Our objective was to compare the future aspirations of pregnant ...
• Critical Intersections and Comic Possibilities: Extending Racialized Critical Rhetorical Scholarship 

  Rossing, Jonathan P. (2010)

  Communication scholars conducting work on race must engage work from complementary critical communities to bolster their own critiques and further advance progressive racial coalitions. Critical, rhetorical scholarship and ...

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