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BIBLIOGRAPHY CATEGORIES

Publication Type | Focus | Communicator | Audience Role | Audience Ethnicity | Audience Gender | Setting | Channels of Risk Communication | Content Of Risk Message | Form Of Risk Information | Outcomes | Hazard | Methodological Issues |

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PUBLICATION TYPE
[If multiple codes apply, the code assigned is the highest that describesthe publication.]
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1. Discussion
2. Review
3. Case study
4. Empirical
5. Intervention
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FOCUS
[The code assigned indicates the coder's judgment as to the issue or issues most emphasized. Sometimes several of these topics receive detailed attention in an article. A maximum of three focus codeswere assigned to each article. If more than three topics received emphasis the code "11.Multiple" was used.]
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1. Communicator
2. Audience
3. Setting
4. Channel
5. Content
6. Format
7. Outcome
8. Measurement/evaluation
9. Risk perception/comprehension
10. Decision aid
11. Multiple
12. General
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COMMUNICATOR

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0. Communicator (general)
1. Authority figure (non-expert)
2.Business/corporation/commercial
3. Celebrity
4. Expert/researcher/scientist
5. Governmental organization (e.g., NCI)
6. Investigator/experimenter
7. Health professional/worker in health care setting
8. Non-governmental organization(e.g. Am. Lung Assoc.)
9. Parent
10. Patient/peer/community member (affected)
11. Peer/community member (not affected)
12. Unspecified
13. Other
14. Media
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AUDIENCE ROLE

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0. Audience role (general)
1. Health/safety professional
2. Child/Pre-teen
3. Teen
4. College student/Graduate student
5. Adult
6. Parent or prospective parent
7. Senior citizen
8. At risk/exposed-child or teen
9. At risk/exposed-adult
10. At risk/exposed-parent of child
11. At risk/ exposed-senior citizen
12. Ill-child
13. Ill-adult
14. Ill-parent of ill child
15. Ill-senior citizen
16. General public
17. Other
20. Patient (general)
21. Other professionals and experts
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AUDIENCE ETHNICITY

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1. African-American
2. Asian
3. Caucasian
4. Hispanic
5. Native American
6. Mixed/varied/multiple
7. Other
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AUDIENCE GENDER

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1. Female
2. Male
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SETTING

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0. Setting (general)
1. Armed Forces
2. community meeting/community group
3. Focus group/small group
4. General community
5. Health care setting
6. Laboratory
7. Prison
8. Educational setting: school or university
9. Workplace
10. Other
11. Home
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CHANNELS OF RISK COMMUNICATION

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0. Channels (general)
1. Computer program (non-internet)
2. Internet (listserves, web pages)
3. Lecture
4. One-on-one (face-to-face)
5. Pamphlets, newsletters, fact sheets, handouts, or questionnaires
6. Print media (newspaper or magazine)
7. Radio
8. Small groups/focus groups
9. Telephone
10. TV
11. Video
12. Other
21. Letter
22. Community meetings/community groups
23. Audiotape
24. Product label/packaging
26. Media-general
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CONTENT OF RISK MESSAGE

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0. Content (general)
1. Cause/source/communicability of risk/mode of transmission
2. Communication style
3. Definition of hazard
4. Expense of hazard
5. Likelihood-absolute
6. Likelihood-comparative (across people or hazards)
7. Possible health outcomes
8. Possible psychosocial outcomes
9. Preventability of hazard/personal control
10. Risk factors (exposure levels, blood pressure, genetic risk)
11. Severity of outcome
12. Time course of hazard
13. Treatability of hazard consequences
14. Other
15. Costs/barriers/losses
16. Benefits/gains
17. Skill building/instructions
18. Reminder
19. General information about hazard
20. General information about recommended action
21. Test results
22. Personalized information
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FORM OF RISK INFORMATION

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0. Format (general)
1. Decision aid
2. Graphical display
3. Interactive
4. Text-numerical
5. Text-verbal
6. Other
7. Oral/spoken
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OUTCOMES

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0. Outcomes (general)
1. Attitude
2. Comprehension of message
3. Knowledge
4. Communicator-Audience relationship (e.g., trust)
5. Psychological distress/ affect/concern/preoccupation
6. Recall of message
7. Risk perception-likelihood
8. Risk perception-severity
9. Risk perception-other attribute of risk
10. Satisfaction/communication appraisal
11. Actual information seeking behavior
12. Actual preventive health behavior/risky behavior
13. Actual testing/screening
14. Actual treatment behavior
15. Actual other behavior (e.g., activism)
16. Intended information seeking behavior
17. Intended preventive health behavior/risky behavior
18. Intended testing/screening
19. Intended treatment behavior
20. Intended other behavior (e.g., activism)
21. Other
22. Perceptions of recommended action/treatment
23. Perceptions of efficacy/control
24. Community or public response
25. Policy/regulation changes
26. Corporate response
27. Information processing/decision-making process
28. Information/communication preferences
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HAZARD

[Note: If a specific type of caner was coded, the general cancer code 6.0 was also assigned to the publication.]
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0. Hazard (general)
1. Alcohol
2. Arthritis
3. Asthma/Emphysema/Chronic lung disease
4. Automobile safety
5. Birth defects
6. 1 Breast cancer
6. 2 Cervical cancer
6. 3 Ovarian cancer
6. 4 Prostate cancer
6. 5 Skin cancer
6. 9 Lung cancer
6.10 Pancreatic cancer
6.11 Bladder cancer
6.12 Colon cancer
6.13 Other cancer
7. Diabetes
8. Drug abuse
9. Pollutants/chemical exposure
10. Other environmental (flooding, climate change/not pollutants)
11. HIV/AIDS/STDs
12. Other infectious diseases (e.g., Lyme disease)
13. Hypertension/heart disease/stroke
14. Hypothetical risk
15. Injury/safety (non-auto)
16. Radiation (radon, sun exposure, x-ray)
17. Smoking
18. Multiple (greater than 5)
19. General, unspecified
20. Other
21. Dental issues
22. Treatment related risks
23. Food related risks
24. Menopause
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METHODOLOGICAL ISSUES

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1. Evaluation criteria (how to determine effectiveness of risk communication)
2. Measurement (studies of different response formats)
3. Other
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