Matthew W. Kreuter|Melanie C. Green|Joseph N. Cappella|Michael D. Slater|Meg Wise|D. Storey|Eddie M. Clark|Daniel J. O’Keefe|Deborah O. Erwin|Kathleen Holmes|Leslie Hinyard|Thomas K. Houston|Sabra F Woolley
Narrative communication in cancer prevention and control: A framework to guide research and application
UCLouvain Saint-Louis Brussels|University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill|University of Pennsylvania|The Ohio State University|Oklahoma State University Center for Health Sciences|University of Wisconsin–Madison|Johns Hopkins University|Saint Louis University|Northwestern University|Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center|UCLouvain Saint-Louis Brussels|UCLouvain Saint-Louis Brussels|University of Alabama at Birmingham|Birmingham VA Medical Center|National Cancer Institute
narrative forms communicationincluding entertainment education journalism literature testimonials storytellingare emerging important tools cancer prevention control stimulate critical thinking role narrative cancer communication promote focused systematic program research understand effects propose typology narrative application cancer control assert narrative four distinctive capabilities overcoming resistance facilitating information processing providing surrogate social connections addressing emotional existential issues assert different capabilities applicable different outcomes across cancer control continuum eg prevention detection diagnosis treatment survivorship article describes empirical evidence theoretical rationale supporting propositions typology identifies variables likely moderate narrative effects raises ethical issues addressed using narrative communication cancer prevention control efforts discusses potential limitations using narrative way future research needs based propositions outlined encouraged