Television news coverage about cervical cancer: impact on female viewers' vulnerability perceptions and fear

Abstract

These results suggest that television news may be an effective means for health education.

Turkish Social Attitudes towards to Cancer Prevention: a Health Belief Model Study

“…Arguably, lack of awareness and knowledge about established risk factors may influence one's personal risk perception and comprehension (Honda and Neugut, 2004). Lemal and Van den Bulck, (2010) reported that onethird of the respondents (33.3%) said they were moderately afraid and 26.9% reported to being very afraid of getting cervical cancer. Keeney et al (2010) reported that participants were stated that was "my risk of getting cancer was low".…”

“…Marike et al reported that such efforts might increase the effectiveness of television news as a means for health education. Research indicates that news media play an important role in disseminating health information (Lemal and Van den Bulck, 2010). In another study, it was found that it was more important to obtain information from a doctor, and that written material could be used as motivation (Austin et al, 2002).…”

Moderating Effects of Media Exposure on Associations between Socioeconomic Position and Cancer Worry

“…The messages conveyed via the media can impact health behavior change (Wakefield, Loken, and Hornik, 2010) as well as generate emotional arousal (Lemal and Van den Bulck, 2009). Research has generally shown that exposure to disease-related information on the media is likely to induce greater risk perception and emotions (Lemal and Van den Bulck, 2010). Evidence has demonstrated that risk perception and emotions such as fear or worry may influence protection motivations and health actions including sun protection (Cameron, 2008) and vaccination (Brewer et al, 2007) for example.…”

Knowledge Levels of Turkish Nurses Related to Prevention and Early Diagnosis of Cancer

“…Other studies conducted report that that news media play an important role in disseminating health information (Kwon et al, 2006;Lemal and Van den Bulck, 2010). In this study conducted on nurses, we discovered that more than half of the nurses included in the study obtained their knowledge regarding cancer prevention from the media.…”