Michigan Center for Health Communications Research II

自20世纪90年代初以来，针对健康相关行为和决策的量身定制研究急剧增加。大量随机试验的结果表明，针对癌症预防和控制的量身定制的沟通比一刀切的方法对行为和决策结果的影响更大。然而，直到最近，我们对为什么量身定制的沟通会影响行为，或者这些沟通的哪些组成部分是有效的知之甚少。CECCR1的资金帮助我们组织了一项协调一致的跨学科努力，以打开卫生传播干预措施的“黑箱”，从而确定了与卫生行为改变和决策有关的广泛的社会心理和传播组成部分。我们还确定了减缓卫生传播信息影响的重要个人特征。其中几项研究的结果已经发表，并正在导致大量新的研究经费和新一代卫生传播调查人员。此外，CECCR1的结果也被采用

Research on tailoring for health-related behaviors and decision-making has increased dramatically since the early 1990's. Results from numerous randomized trials suggest that tailored communications for cancer prevention and control have a greater influence on behavioral and decision making outcomes than one-size-fits-all approaches. Until recently, however, we had little understanding of why tailored communications influenced behavior, or which components of these communications were effective. CECCR1 funding helped us to organize a concerted interdisciplinary effort to open the "black box" of health communications interventions, which led to identifying a broad array of psychosocial and communications components relevant to health behavior change and decision making. We also identified important individual characteristics that moderate the impact of health communications messages. Results from several of these studies have already been published, and are leading to significant new research funding and a new generation of health communications investigators. Moreover, CECCR1 results are also being adopted in health care, employer, pharmaceutical, and government settings of the U.S. and other parts of the world. The overarching aims of CECCR2 are to: (1) Extend our tailoring research beyond the prevention area to the broader cancer care continuum, including early detection, treatment, and long-term survival; (2) Extend our tailoring research to new clinical and post-treatment settings; (3) Deepen our understanding of the key psychosocial and communications components identified in CECCR1, including motivation, ethnic identity, risk perception, and cognitive processing; (4) Explore methods of tailoring to patient preferences for shared decision making; (5) Develop new social and cognitive neuroscience strategies for identifying immediate impact and mechanisms of health communications messages; (6) Develop new interdisciplinary collaborations with scientists and research institutions; (7) Train a new generation of health communications scientists and practitioners; and (8) Disseminate both the scientific and practical results of our research efforts. Woven through CECCR2 research are crosscutting interests related to: tailoring and relevant communications channels; reaching underserved populations through more relevant and easier-to-process content; physiological mechanisms of communication effect; and methodological issues of design, data collection, and measurement. CECCR2 involves four primary research sites and networks, and collaborations with 34 research investigators from 13 institutions. Because of the ambitious scope of our proposed studies, we have obtained over $10 million in matched funding from other sources to help us carry out the proposed research.