Yan Liu

Shanghai University | SHU · School of Journalism and Commmunication

本书从健康传播的视角出发，结合新媒体的媒介特点，提供了丰富的研究案例和第一手的实证材料。

健康传播基本理论

This paper aims to describe how videos affect human behavior, especially teenagers and other major human beings. Given the large number of young adults who use short video social media (e.g., TikTok, Douyin, and Kuaishou) in rural China, understanding how the use of such platforms affects their subjective wellbeing is crucial. This study examines t...

BACKGROUND Smartphone-based digital health applications (“apps”) are increasingly used to support behavior change and prevent relapse among those with substance use disorders (SUDs). These systems also collect a wealth of data from participants, including the content of messages exchanged in peer-to-peer support forums. The ways individuals self-di...

Background Smartphone-based apps are increasingly used to prevent relapse among those with substance use disorders (SUDs). These systems collect a wealth of data from participants, including the content of messages exchanged in peer-to-peer support forums. How individuals self-disclose and exchange social support in these forums may provide insight...

Social networking site smartphone applications have been widely used among Chinese young adults. However, less is known about their effects on emotional health and the mechanisms through which they function. This study analyzes the relationship between college students’ smartphone social networking service use patterns, social gratification, social...

Young people are increasingly using social networking site (SNS) smartphone applications (apps), necessitating research on the effects of such use on the users’ emotional health. The present study recruited 360 college students across mainland China and recorded their smartphone usage for one week using an automatic tracking app. Surveys assessing...

Background Clinical decision aids may support shared decision-making for screening mammography. To inform shared decision-making between patients and their providers, this study examines how patterns of using an EHR-integrated decision aid and accompanying verbal patient-provider communication predict decision-making satisfaction. Methods For 51 p...

Aim: To investigate eHealth literacy about COVID-19 among older adults during the pandemic. Background: The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic promoted the development of online healthcare. Higher demand for accessing information from the Internet was seen. Methods: This was a sequential explanatory mixed-method study, involving a su...

This study applies social network analysis and quantitative content analysis to messages exchanged within an online support forum of caregivers of children with chronic asthma to examine how peer-to-peer network positions and personal communication styles (seeking and providing support) impact the reception of social support. Content analysis is us...

Objective: Individuals in recovery for substance use disorders (SUDs) increasingly use online social support forums, necessitating research on how communicating through these forums can affect recovery. This study examines how giving and receiving support within an SUDs recovery forum predict substance use, and considers whether effects vary accor...

Background: Obtaining adequate social support presents a challenge for many in addiction recovery. Increasingly, individuals in recovery use online forums to exchange support with peers, yet it is unclear which help-seeking strategies most effectively recruit peer support, and which forms of support are most valued by recipients. Methods: This s...