Study Design In a two-group randomized controlled trial with 160 tobacco smokers,
Tweet2Quit was combined with a web guide (smokefree. gov) and nicotine patch. The …

African American women (AAW) experience higher burdens of disease and have the highest
rate of heart disease, cancer, stroke, and diabetes when compared to females of other ethnic …

British Medical Association Book Award Winner-President's Award of the Year 2018 From
the author of the bestselling introduction to evidence-based medicine, this brand new title …

Vaccine hesitancy (delay in obtaining a vaccine, despite availability) represents a significant
hurdle to managing the COVID-19 pandemic. Vaccine hesitancy is in part related to the …

Misinformation can influence personal and societal decisions in detrimental ways. Not only
is misinformation challenging to correct, but even when individuals accept corrective …

Latina/o Americans are at high risk for sexually transmitted infections and adolescent
pregnancies. Needed urgently are innovative health promotion approaches that are …

Violence against women (VAW) is widespread in East Africa, with almost half of married
women experiencing physical abuse. Those seeking to address this issue confront two …

2 International Journal of Social Psychiatry 00 (0) effects, and psychiatrists should be
portrayed as the active, talented, and empathic physicians that they are. This may require …

Narratives are pervasive in video games and have been found to increase physical activity
in active video games. However, the effect of incorporating narrative elements has seldom …

Previous studies indicated that narrative health messages are more effective than non-
narrative messages in influencing health outcomes. However, this body of evidence does …