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Understanding Disclosure of Health Information to Workplace Friends
The purpose of this study was to learn about the process of disclosing health information to a coworker friend using the lens of Communication Privacy Management Theory. The study explores emerging themes regarding health information disclosure and predicts associations between privacy, social suppo...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9598753/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36285924 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/bs12100355 |
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author | Kingsley Westerman, Catherine Y. Haverkamp, Emily M. Zeng, Cheng |
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description | The purpose of this study was to learn about the process of disclosing health information to a coworker friend using the lens of Communication Privacy Management Theory. The study explores emerging themes regarding health information disclosure and predicts associations between privacy, social support, risk, stigma, and the willingness to disclose health information to a friend at work. Employees were asked to recall a time they shared health information with a coworker friend and report about the interaction via open-ended items and scales on a survey. The study found that as emotional support, instrumental support, perceived risk, and stigma of the information increased, so did the tendency to disclose to a coworker friend. Increased privacy of the information was associated with a decrease in the tendency to disclose. A thematic analysis of the open-ended results also revealed that employees shared information associated with personal on-going health problems to seek support, to relate to their coworker friends, and to maintain their friendship. The findings also indicated that employees were likely to receive social support from their coworker friends even if they were not seeking it. |
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spelling | pubmed-95987532022-10-27 Understanding Disclosure of Health Information to Workplace Friends Kingsley Westerman, Catherine Y. Haverkamp, Emily M. Zeng, Cheng Behav Sci (Basel) Article The purpose of this study was to learn about the process of disclosing health information to a coworker friend using the lens of Communication Privacy Management Theory. The study explores emerging themes regarding health information disclosure and predicts associations between privacy, social support, risk, stigma, and the willingness to disclose health information to a friend at work. Employees were asked to recall a time they shared health information with a coworker friend and report about the interaction via open-ended items and scales on a survey. The study found that as emotional support, instrumental support, perceived risk, and stigma of the information increased, so did the tendency to disclose to a coworker friend. Increased privacy of the information was associated with a decrease in the tendency to disclose. A thematic analysis of the open-ended results also revealed that employees shared information associated with personal on-going health problems to seek support, to relate to their coworker friends, and to maintain their friendship. The findings also indicated that employees were likely to receive social support from their coworker friends even if they were not seeking it. MDPI 2022-09-23 /pmc/articles/PMC9598753/ /pubmed/36285924 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/bs12100355 Text en © 2022 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Article Kingsley Westerman, Catherine Y. Haverkamp, Emily M. Zeng, Cheng Understanding Disclosure of Health Information to Workplace Friends |
title | Understanding Disclosure of Health Information to Workplace Friends |
title_full | Understanding Disclosure of Health Information to Workplace Friends |
title_fullStr | Understanding Disclosure of Health Information to Workplace Friends |
title_full_unstemmed | Understanding Disclosure of Health Information to Workplace Friends |
title_short | Understanding Disclosure of Health Information to Workplace Friends |
title_sort | understanding disclosure of health information to workplace friends |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9598753/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36285924 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/bs12100355 |
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