Gall Myrick paper looks at health information seeking
Assistant professor Jessica Gall Myrick has co-authored a paper that has been accepted for publication in the Journal of Health Communication.
“Does Context Matter? Examining PRISM as a Guiding Framework for Context-specific Health Risk Information Seeking Among Young Adults,” looks at how motivation to find health risk information varies through a survey of more than 1,000 young adults.
Gall Myrick worked on the paper with Jessica Fitts Willoughby of the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill.
They concluded that there were important contextual factors that contributed to why survey respondents did or did not seek out risk information, and they say their findings can help health practitioners determine how to convince people to learn about risks on their own.