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Sergio Fernando Juárez; C. Kyle Rudick – Communication Education, 2024
Health campaigns have long been viewed from a transmissive lens. That is, typically campaigns assume that medical experts, government officials, and nonprofit organizations have information about some form of care, prevention, or cure, which is then disseminated to those in need of their direction. Health communication scholars have started to…
Descriptors: Health Education, Communications, Health Promotion, Cultural Context
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Bromme, Rainer; Brummernhenrich, Benjamin; Becker, Bettina-Maria; Jucks, Regina – Communication Education, 2012
Tutors often fail to address learners' misconceptions. Although this may indicate a failure to grasp these misconceptions, it may simply be due to a wish to be polite and save the learner's face. In this study we examined whether instructing tutors about the pitfalls of politeness could increase the clarity and precision of their tutorial…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Communication Research, Medical Students, Tutors