OPEN CALL - Issue 41 Health Communication for Behavior Change in the Digital Context
https://revistas.ulima.edu.pe/index.php/contratexto/announcement/view/47
GUEST EDITORS:
The main theme of issue 41 of Contratexto will be devoted to health communication, specifically to communication for health behavior change in the digital context. The issue will bring together studies that will focus on the design, implementation or effect of messages, interventions or campaigns on people's health behavior, or on one or more of its determinants, that include a digital component within. The issue will show theory-driven studies with different methodological designs, whether observational or experimental, in any region of the world, with specific or general populations, and from any theoretical approach.
Understanding the mechanisms of influence and the conditions under which communication has a greater or lesser effect is a main objective of researchers in health communication, since the effectiveness of communication strategies depends on advances in knowledge about these aspects. This issue will show studies that advance our knowledge of health behavior change in the digital environment, in any of the following areas, without being an exhaustive list:
- Promotion of healthy lifestyles
- Behaviors to prevent or treat chronic diseases and cancer
- Communication in mental health
- Tobacco, alcohol or drug use
- Health disparities
- Misinformation
- Studies among diverse populations, such as male or female children, adolescents, women, the elderly, minorities, migrants, inmates.
- Formative evaluation, including the design of messages or communication pieces
- Implementation of communication interventions
- Evaluation of intervention outcomes
Manuscripts will be received in Spanish, Portuguese or English.
For this call, authors are invited, first, to submit abstracts of up to 500 words (excluding tables, figures or references), which should include a description of the problem under study, research questions or hypotheses, methodology, results and conclusions. Subsequently, authors, whose abstracts are preselected by the guest-editors, will be invited to submit full manuscripts, which will be blind peer reviewed. Manuscripts should follow the general guidelines of the journal: https://revistas.ulima.edu.pe/index.php/contratexto/normpub
Thus, the dates of the process are presented below:
- CFP: end of May 2023
- Abstract submission: late September 2023
- Selection of abstracts: mid October 2023
- Manuscript submission: mid December 2023
- Review process (including revisions): December 2023 – March 2024
- Final selection: April 2024
The editors are Peter Busse, PhD, associate professor of the Faculty of Communication at Universidad de Lima; Macarena Peña y Lillo, PhD, associate professor of the Faculty of Communication and Letters at Universidad Diego Portales; Robin Stevens, PhD, associate professor of the Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism at the University of Southern California; and Susana Ramírez, associate professor of Public Health in the School of Social Sciences, Humanities and Arts at the University of California, Merced.
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Peter Busse
Associate Professor
Universidad de Lima
Lima
Peru
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