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Nichole Egbert

Nichole Egbert

Professor
Contact Information
Email:
negbert@kent.edu
Phone:
330-672-3314

Biography

Nichole currently teaches courses in Health Communication, Relational Communication and Foundations of Communication. Her research interests include social support and health, health literacy and spirituality/religiosity in health contexts.

Scholarly, Creative & Professional Activities

Publications

  • Katila, S., Meehan R, Egbert, N., Guan, Q., Kumari, M. and Davidson, J. (2023). Going the Shortest Distance: Designing research frameworks for reducing translation time in a multicultural, language tool in Proceedings of the 18th Annual UCDA Design Education Summit, May 2023 
  • Bihn-Coss, G., & Egbert, N. (2023). Supporting in solidarity: An examination of social support, advocacy, and barriers among birthing doulas. Communication Quarterly. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/01463373.2022.2164737.
  • Zhu, Y., Beam, M., Ming, Y., Egbert, N., & Smith, T. (2022). A social cognitive theory approach to understanding parental attitudes and intentions to vaccine children during the COVID-19 pandemic. Vaccines. 10(11), 1876. https://doi.org/10.3390/vaccines10111876
  • Egbert, N., Zhu, Y., Choi, M., Beam, M., & Smith, T. (2022). Family communication patterns and parents’ intentions to vaccinate their child against COVID-19. Health Communication. DOI: 10.1080/10410236.2022.2114768
  • Meehan, R., Kumari, M., Guan, Q., Katila, S., Davidson, J., & Egbert, N. (2022). STREAM: Prototype development of a digital language identifier. Proceedings of the International Conference on Health Informatics.
  • Egbert, N., Wright, K. B., & Zhang, X. (2021; published online ahead of print). Motivated and able: When is Facebook used to seek friendship and social support? Journal of American College Health.
  • Lee, S., Goodall, C., Egbert, N., & Chung, D. (2021). The moderating role of self-construal on culturally reflected fear appeals. Journal of Health Communication, 26, 65-75.
  • Egbert, N., Goodall, C., McCullough, J., & Smith, T. (2020). Headlines and hashtags: Communicating science during an outbreak. Microbes and Infection, 22, 508-519. 
  • Egbert, N., Child, J. T., Lin, M-C, Savery, C., & Bosley, T. (2017). How older adults and their families perceive family talk about aging-related issues: A dialectical analysis. Behavioral Sciences, 7, 21. DOI: doi:10.3390/bs7020021
  • Egbert, N. Daggs, J. L., & Reed, P. R. (in press). Students’ perceptions and misperceptions of the communication major: Opportunities and challenges of reputation. Journal of the Association for Communication Administration.
  • Egbert, N., & Reed, P. R. (2016). Self-efficacy. In J. Dearing and D. K. Kim (Eds.), Health communication measures (pp. 203-211). New York: Peter Lang Publishing
  • Egbert. N., & Reed, P. (2015). Towards comprehensive health literacy assessment for online health information: Assessing falls prevention websites designed for older adults and their caregivers. Journal of Physical Therapy and Health Promotion, 3(2), 20-27.
  • Egbert, N. (2015). Hospice care and communication. In J. Nussbaum and H. Giles (Eds.), Communication at the end of life (pp. 158-173).  New York: Peter Lang Publishing.
  • Egbert, N. (2014). Integrating intergenerational family caregiving research across discipline and culture: Identity, attribution, and relationship. In E. Cohen (Ed.), Communication Yearbook (Volume 13, pp. 307-336). New York: Routledge.
  • Egbert, N., Miraldi, L., & Murniadi, K. (2013). Friends don’t let friends suffer from depression: How threat, efficacy, knowledge, and empathy relate to college students’ intentions to intervene on behalf of a depressed friend. Journal of Health Communication, (ahead of print) 1-18.
  • Polk, D., & Egbert, N. (2013). Speaking the language of love: On whether Chapman’s (1992) claims stand up to empirical testing. The Open Communication Journal, 7, 1-11.
  • Egbert N. (2013). Religion, fatalism, and health locus of control: Persuading African American women to obtain mammography screenings. In C. Lieberman (Ed.), Casing persuasive communication. Dubuque, IA: Kendall Hunt.
  • Egbert, N., & Hall, S. R. (2012). Health communication and religion. In S. Croucher and T. Harris (Eds.), Religion and communication: An anthology of extensions in theory, research, and method. New York, NY: Peter Lang Publishing.
  • Wright, K. B., Rosenberg, J., Egbert, N., Ploeger, N., & Bernard, D. (2012). Communication competence, social support, and depression among college students: A model of Facebook and face-to-face support network influence. Journal of Health Communication, 18, 41-57.
  • Smith, G. C., Egbert, N., Dellman-Jenkins, M., Nanna, K., & Palmieri, P. (2012). Reducing depression in stroke survivors and informal caregivers: A randomized clinical trial. Rehabilitation Psychology, 57, 196-206.
  • Egbert, N., & Belcher, J. D. (2012). Reality bites: An investigation of the genre of reality television and its relationship to viewers' body image. Mass Communication & Society, 15, 407-431.
  • Goodall, C., Sabo, J., Cline, R. W., & Egbert, N. (2012). Threat, efficacy, and uncertainty in the first five months of national print and electronic news coverage of the H1N1 virus. Journal of Health Communication, 17, 338-355.
  • Egbert, N. Query, J. L., Jr., Quinlan, M. M., Savery, C. A., & Martinez, A. R. (2011). (Re) Viewing health communication and related interdisciplinary curricula: Towards a transdisciplinary perspective. In T. L., Thompson, J. Nussbaum, & R. L. Parrott (Eds.), Handbook of Health Communication (2nded., pp. 610-631).  New York: Taylor & Francis.Rosenberg, J., & Egbert, N. (2011). Online impression management: Personality traits and concern for secondary goals as predictors of self-presentation tactics on Facebook. Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, 17, 1-18.
Convention Papers
  • Egbert, N., Hassler, D., & Meier, T. (2024, November). Expressing experience through poetry therapy: The global vaccine poetry project. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the National Communication Association, New Orleans, LA. 
  • Meehan, R. Katila, S., Egbert, N., Guan, Q., & Davidson, J. (2023, July). Reducing refugee health disparities through a digital language identifier: A user study among first responders. Poster presented at the 2023 North American Refugee Health Conference, Calgary, Canada. 
  • Katila, S., Meehan, R., Egbert, N., & Guan, Q. (2023, May). Going the shortest distance: Designing research frameworks for reducing translation time in a multicultural, language tool. Paper to be presented at the 2023 UCDA Design Education Summit: SAME / DIFFERENCE, Bowling Green, OH. 
  • Egbert, N., Noi, S., Rindfleish, M.& Zhang, X. (2023, April). Uncertain poets describe their reactions to the COVID-19 vaccines. Poster to be presented at the 2023 DC Health Communication Conference, Washington DC. 
  • Craig, M., Hassan, T., Egbert, N., & Morris, G. (2023, April). The impact of political ideology on self-perceived risk, self-efficacy, and social distancing during the COVID-19 pandemic. Paper to be presented at the annual meeting of the Central States Communication Association, St. Loui