Measuring media‐related health and mental health information acquisition among Latino adults in the United States

• Published in: International journal of methods in psychiatric research Vol. 32; no. 4; pp. e1967 - n/a
• Main Authors: DuPont‐Reyes, Melissa J., Villatoro, Alice, Gama, Giovanni, Tang, Lu
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States John Wiley & Sons, Inc 01.12.2023; Wiley
• Subjects: Acculturation; Adult; Audiences; Censuses; Communication; Contrast media; English language; Gender; Gift cards & certificates; Health disparities; Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice; Hispanic Americans; Hispanic or Latino; Humans; Information Seeking Behavior; Language; Latino populations; media; Mental disorders; Mental Health; mental health communication; Minority & ethnic groups; Multiculturalism & pluralism; Population; public mental health; Reproducibility of Results; Social networks; Spanish language; Standard deviation; Stigma; Subscriptions; United States; United States; United States > US; Latin America; Spain; stigma; mental health communication; media; Latino populations; public mental health

Objectives We developed and evaluated new media‐related health information acquisition measures for U.S.‐based Latino populations. Methods In 2021, a sample of U.S.‐based Latino adults (N = 1574) self‐completed a 20‐min survey of health information acquisition measures across three language/cultural...