Literature DB >> 21347947

Including limitations in news coverage of cancer research: effects of news hedging on fatalism, medical skepticism, patient trust, and backlash.

Jakob D Jensen1, Nick Carcioppolo, Andy J King, Jennifer K Bernat, LaShara Davis, Robert Yale, Jessica Smith.   

Abstract

Past research has demonstrated that news coverage of cancer research, and scientific research generally, rarely contains discourse-based hedging, including caveats, limitations, and uncertainties. In a multiple message experiment (k = 4 news stories, N = 1082), the authors examined whether hedging shaped the perceptions of news consumers. The results revealed that participants were significantly less fatalistic about cancer (p = .039) and marginally less prone to nutritional backlash (p = .056) after exposure to hedged articles. Participants exposed to articles mentioning a second researcher (unaffiliated with the present study) exhibited greater trust in medical professions (p = .001). The findings provide additional support for the inclusion of discourse-based hedging in cancer news coverage and suggest that news consumers will use scientific uncertainty in illness representations.

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Year:  2011        PMID： 21347947      PMCID： PMC9426780          DOI： 10.1080/10810730.2010.546491

Source DB:  PubMed          Journal:  J Health Commun        ISSN： 1081-0730


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