Increasing Information Seeking About Antibiotic Risks: Testing a Clinical Intervention Message Using the Risk Information Seeking and Processing Model. Issue 2 (April 2020)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Brinker, David L.; Zhou, Yanmengqian; Acevedo Callejas, Michelle L.; MacGeorge, Erina L.
• Is Part Of: Science communication. Volume 42:Issue 2(2020)
• Page Start: 218
• Page End: 243
• Publication Date: 2020-04
• Subjects: information insufficiency -- information seeking -- RISP model -- antibiotic stewardship -- risk communication; Social sciences -- Periodicals; Knowledge, Sociology of -- Periodicals; Communication in science -- Periodicals; Communication of technical information -- Periodicals; Communication in medicine -- Periodicals; Information scientifique -- Périodiques; Information technique -- Périodiques; Communication en sciences sociales -- Périodiques; Communication en médecine -- Périodiques; 300.14
• DOI: 10.1177/1075547020914610
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1075-5470

Abstract

We employed the risk information seeking and processing (RISP) model to inform the design of antibiotic stewardship messages aiming at influencing intentions to seek or avoid antibiotic risk information. College-age respondents ( N = 400) from a national sample viewed one of three versions of a RISP-informed message or no message (control group). Relative to the control group, all RISP-informed messages increased perceptions of information insufficiency. The most complete version of the RISP-informed message increased severity perceptions and information seeking intention and decreased information avoidance intention. Approaches to designing antibiotic stewardship messages are recommended accordingly.