Psychiatry related information on Mass Media

• This questionnaire is also a self-assessment tool for COPD screening among the elderly in order to encourage them to seek for early medical attention and it is recommended that this should be publicized via the mass media [1].

High impact information on Mass Media

• Both intensive instruction and the mass-media campaigns led to significant reductions (20-40%) in cholesterol and saturated fat consumption in both men and women, with intensively instructed men tending to outperform men exposed to mass-media alone [2].
• Action was preceded by the dissemination of information on the causes and symptoms of COPD in the local mass media [3].
• The Australian National Asthma Campaign: effects of public education activities based on mass media [4].
• Still others receive help from mass-media campaigns, such as the Great American Smokeout, or community programs [5].
• The primary message of the campaign was "Talk to your kids about sex. Everyone else is." METHODS: Thirty-two of the 100 counties in North Carolina were chosen to evaluate the mass media campaign [6].

Associations of Mass Media with chemical compounds

• Folic acid use can be promoted effectively by mass media campaigns, certainly in a large group of women with no prior knowledge of the health benefits associated with periconceptional folic acid use [7].
• Exposure to mass media and nutritional, intellectual, socioeconomic, sociocultural, familial, demographic, and educational factors, including approximately 2000 variables, were measured in a representative and proportional sample of 4509 school-age children from elementary and high schools in Chile's Metropolitan Region [8].
• In 1987 two lethal adult cases of accidental ethylene glycol poisoning were given spectacular attention in the Swedish mass media [9].
• The results show that the use of local mass media is effective in raising the prevalence of iodized salt use [10].
• Mass media representations as drug information for patients: the prozac phenomenon [11].

Gene context of Mass Media

• APS/AAAS mass media science and engineering fellow recounts experience [12].
• Although similar in outward appearance to mass media, programs delivered through the Internet, CD-ROM, and computer kiosks offer the potential for vastly improved efficacy in communicating risk [13].
• This is not surprising given the fact that teachers were most likely to identify the mass media as the most commonly used source of information regarding homosexuality [14].
• Several contextual factors are thought to have contributed to the effect of the guidelines, including pre-existing professional concern about the value of surgery, the introduction of an internal market into the NHS, and growing apprehension among parents fuelled by scepticism in the mass media [15].
• For those receiving ART, physician input, CD4 count, and possible side effects were more important than friends, family or mass media in deciding to start ART [16].

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