Papers by Michelle Miller-Day
Journal of Family Communication, 2010
Objective—Characterize the process of family vegetable selection (especially cruciferous, deep or... more Objective—Characterize the process of family vegetable selection (especially cruciferous, deep orange, and dark green leafy vegetables); demonstrate the usefulness of Exchange Theory (how family norms and past experiences interact with rewards and costs) for interpreting the data. Design—Eight focus groups, two with each segment (men/women vegetable-likers/dislikers based on a screening form). Participants completed a vegetable intake form. Setting—Rural Appalachian Pennsylvania. Participants—61 low-income, married/cohabiting men (n=28) and women (n=33). Analysis—Thematic analysis within Exchange Theory framework for qualitative data. Descriptive analysis, t-tests and chi-square tests for quantitative data. Results—Exchange Theory proved useful for understanding that regardless of sex or vegetable liker/ disliker status, meal preparers see more costs than rewards to serving vegetables. Past experience plus expectations of food preparer role and of deference to family member preferen...
Journal of Family Communication, 2017
... Lynne Brown 5. Working It Out Together: The Role of Family Support in the Management of Postp... more ... Lynne Brown 5. Working It Out Together: The Role of Family Support in the Management of Postpartum Depression 135 LaKesha Anderson Dearmen Part 2. Stigma 6. Stigma and Politeness: Challenging Family Health Discussions 165 Kelly Rossetto Rachel Smith Barbara ...
This chapter argues for culturally grounding research efforts as a way to reflect cultural divers... more This chapter argues for culturally grounding research efforts as a way to reflect cultural diversity and enhance representativeness of samples; describes relevant definitions and characteristics important to consider in conducting health disparities research; and provides methodological suggestions for culturally grounding research efforts to reduce disparities.https://digitalcommons.chapman.edu/communication_books/1010/thumbnail.jp
Journal of General Internal Medicine, 2013
Journal of Family Communication, 2002
This study extends current research on family communication and suicide risk in 2 ways. First, it... more This study extends current research on family communication and suicide risk in 2 ways. First, it examines variables that reflect communication patterns found in gener-ally well-functioning families, as opposed to more commonly specified pathological factors, to assess the ...
Journal of Applied Communication Research, 2011
Adolescent Relationships and Drug Use, 2014
Health communication, Jan 20, 2018
The present study seeks to understand how parents as prevention agents approach substance use pre... more The present study seeks to understand how parents as prevention agents approach substance use prevention messages during the period of early adolescence. Students (N = 410) in a drug prevention trial completed surveys from 7th to 9th grade. Using longitudinal data, a series of latent transition analyses was conducted to identify major trends of parent-adolescent drug talk styles (i.e., never talked, situated direct, ongoing direct, situated indirect, and ongoing indirect) in control and treatment conditions. Findings demonstrate a developmental trend in drug talk styles toward a situated style of talk as youth transitioned from 7th grade to 9th grade. Findings also show that even though the drug prevention trial did not specifically target parental communication, parents in the treatment condition provide more ongoing substance use prevention messages to their adolescent children than do parents in the control condition. The present study discusses relevant developmental issues, pot...
Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Communication, 2017
Adolescent substance use and abuse has long been the target of public health prevention messages.... more Adolescent substance use and abuse has long been the target of public health prevention messages. These messages have adopted a variety of communication strategies, including fear appeals, information campaigns, and social marketing/branding strategies. A case history of keepin’ it REAL, a narrative-based substance abuse prevention intervention that exemplifies a translational research approach, involves theory development testing, formative and evaluation research, dissemination, and assessment of how the intervention is being used in the field by practitioners. The project, which started as an attempt to test the notion that the performance of personal narratives was an effective intervention strategy, has since produced two theories, an approach to implementation science that focused on communication processes, and, of course, a school-based curriculum that is now the most widely disseminated drug prevention program in the world.At the core of the keepin’ it REAL program are the ...
Two primary forms of qualitative data collection in the health and social sciences include self-r... more Two primary forms of qualitative data collection in the health and social sciences include self-report interviews and direct observations. This study compared these two methods in the context of weight management for people who had varying degrees of success with weight loss (n 20).
Commons, and the Public Health Education and Promotion Commons This Article is brought to you for... more Commons, and the Public Health Education and Promotion Commons This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Communication Studies at Chapman University Digital Commons. It has been accepted for inclusion in Communication Studies Faculty Articles and Research by an authorized administrator of Chapman University Digital Commons. For more information, please contact
Adolescent Relationships and Drug Use
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