Journal article
Nutrition Information In Community Newspapers: Goal Framing, Story Origins, and Topics
Health communication, Vol.30(10), pp.1013-1021
10/03/2015
DOI: 10.1080/10410236.2014.914620
PMID: 25256633
Abstract
Obesity rates are high in the rural United States. Because small communities often have few health care practitioners, nutrition news in community newspapers may be a useful source of information. This content analysis of a random sample of 164 nutrition stories from 10 community newspapers in the rural West North Central Midwest was guided by concepts from goal-framing theory. Locally generated stories comprised nearly half of the sample, suggesting that nutrition is a salient topic in many rural communities. Hedonic frames related to food enjoyment were twice as frequent as health improvement frames. Results suggest food promotion was the most common topic of nutrition stories, with guidelines for a healthy diet appearing about half as often. Stories about a healthy diet and food promotion were most often written locally. Findings are discussed with recommendations for improvement of community news coverage of nutrition.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Nutrition Information In Community Newspapers: Goal Framing, Story Origins, and Topics
- Creators
- Julie L. Andsager - University of Tennessee at KnoxvilleLi Chen - University of IowaStephanie Miles - University of IowaChristina C. Smith - Univ Iowa, Sch Journalism & Mass Commun, Iowa City, IA 52242 USAFaryle Nothwehr - University of Iowa
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Health communication, Vol.30(10), pp.1013-1021
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis
- DOI
- 10.1080/10410236.2014.914620
- PMID
- 25256633
- ISSN
- 1041-0236
- eISSN
- 1532-7027
- Number of pages
- 9
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 10/03/2015
- Academic Unit
- Community and Behavioral Health
- Record Identifier
- 9984363573102771
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