The Relationship between Emotional and Esteem Social Support Messages and Health
| Autor: | Jeanine Warisse Turner, Alan Neustadtl, Betty A. Levine, James D. Robinson, Yan Tian, Seong K. Mun |
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| Rok vydání: | 2017 |
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Blood Glucose
Telemedicine Health (social science) Optimal matching media_common.quotation_subject Emotions Self-concept MEDLINE 050801 communication & media studies Affect (psychology) 03 medical and health sciences Social support 0508 media and communications Perception Diabetes Mellitus Humans Prospective Studies Health communication media_common Physician-Patient Relations 030505 public health Communication 05 social sciences Social Support Self Concept Health Communication 0305 other medical science Psychology Social psychology Clinical psychology |
| Zdroj: | Health communication. 34(2) |
| ISSN: | 1532-7027 |
| Popis: | The purpose of this investigation is to determine the relative contribution of five types of social support to improved patient health. This analysis suggests that emotional and esteem social support messages are associated with improved patient health as measured by a decrease in average blood glucose levels among diabetic patients. In addition, when two system feature variables, two system use variables, two measures of learning, one measure of self-efficacy, and one measure of affect toward their HCP were added to the baseline model, a third significant factor emerged. Perceptions about learning about diabetes from reading the digital messages sent by their HCP also predicted improved patient health. Cognitive-Emotional Theory of Esteem Support Messages suggests a combination of esteem social support and emotional social support messages enhanced our ability to predict improved patient health by change in patient hemoglobin A1c (HbA1c) scores. While a nonrandomized prospective study, this investigation provides support for the notion that provider-patient interaction is related to improved patient health and that both emotional and esteem social support messages play a role in that process. Finally, the study suggests some types of social support are and other types are not associated with improved patient health; this is consistent with the optimal matching hypothesis. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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