Setting the agenda for health communication research: topics and methodologies

TY - JOUR

T1 - Setting the agenda for health communication research

T2 - topics and methodologies

AU - Finset, Arnstein

AU - Papageorgiou, Alexia

AU - Menichetti, Julia

AU - Sterie, Anca-Cristina

AU - Yuan, Siyang

AU - van Vliet, Liesbeth

PY - 2023/1

Y1 - 2023/1

N2 - The research field of health communication has grown significantly in the last decades. This has shaped changes in how clinicians and patients interact with each other to achieve better health outcomes. Yet, given the complexity and significance of clinician-patient communication, it is essential to have an overview of the research landscape of health communication to navigate the future direction in terms of research topics and methods. As part of the Research Committee of EACH (rEACH) activities, rEACH members (ACS, SY, JM) were asked to organize a rEACH symposium during the recent International Conference on Communication in Healthcare: ICCH 2022 in Glasgow (6th–9th September 2022). Three speakers from various stages of their research career (AF, AP, LV) were invited to share their understanding and visions of health communication research in terms of topics and methods. The aim was to stimulate thinking and encourage a dialog on the future directions to prioritize, and to set an agenda for health communication research. With these pages, we summarize the key future directions for our field that emerged during the symposium, divided between topics and methods.

AB - The research field of health communication has grown significantly in the last decades. This has shaped changes in how clinicians and patients interact with each other to achieve better health outcomes. Yet, given the complexity and significance of clinician-patient communication, it is essential to have an overview of the research landscape of health communication to navigate the future direction in terms of research topics and methods. As part of the Research Committee of EACH (rEACH) activities, rEACH members (ACS, SY, JM) were asked to organize a rEACH symposium during the recent International Conference on Communication in Healthcare: ICCH 2022 in Glasgow (6th–9th September 2022). Three speakers from various stages of their research career (AF, AP, LV) were invited to share their understanding and visions of health communication research in terms of topics and methods. The aim was to stimulate thinking and encourage a dialog on the future directions to prioritize, and to set an agenda for health communication research. With these pages, we summarize the key future directions for our field that emerged during the symposium, divided between topics and methods.

U2 - 10.1016/j.pec.2022.10.349

DO - 10.1016/j.pec.2022.10.349

M3 - Article

SN - 0738-3991

VL - 106

SP - 208

EP - 209

JO - Patient Education and Counseling

JF - Patient Education and Counseling

ER -