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🏝️I'm beachside in #Cyprus presenting #research about how #AI chats, #visualAids, and other scalable communication tools can improve #health and reduce #drugResistance or #AMR. I'll post below about the other #EHPS2026 sessions I catch. Kudos to the @ehps.bsky.social for allowing remote presenters!

What predicts being more or less intent to seek lung #cancer screening? Andriana Theodoropoulou (below) shared insights about eligible adults with #EHPS2026 from a new paper: doi.org/10.1093/abm/... 🔓 💬 In addition to standard #surveyMethods, they coded thought lists to enable multiple regression.

What about colorectal #cancer screening? Dr. Marcella Bianchi shared results from #Campania, which has outstandingly low #adherence. At least three psychological profiles emerged from non-adherers (photo 2). Follow Dr. Bianchi and the broader #MIRIADE project: www.researchgate.net/publication/...

Back to our session on #Health #Communication and #AntibioticStewardship: First, @schneali.bsky.social shared results from a new #openAccess paper. 🫣 When providers could *choose* to ignore diagnostically relevant info, many did...and also prescribed more #antibiotics? WILLFUL ignorance? 👇Thread

What else drives overprescription of #antibiotics? @kevinroche.bsky.social asked Irish GPs. As in many nations, the doctors blamed time pressure, patient expectations, and diagnostic uncertainty. But they also proposed a few solutions! You can follow Kevin at www.researchgate.net/profile/Kevi...

Then @miroslavsirota.bsky.social shared cross-cultural "terminology effects" on correct answering to questions about #antibiotics. "Infection" was more potent than "Resistance". "drug-" or "antibiotic-resistant INFECTIONS" often caused more benefit than "anti-microbial/biotic RESISTANCE" #MedEd

And @robertboehm.bsky.social closed with reflections on - the multi-factorial, multi-party nature of health problems like #antibiotic resistance. - a growing need for our #research to refine policies, practices, and norms. Interested? Join @abc-network.bsky.social: www.a-bc.network/involved.html

David Haag et al found #AI generated behavior change techniques were rated better than those from #healthcare professionals (doi.org/10.1145/3706...). So will such #LLMs perform even better if they generate THEORY-concordant recommendations? A small experiment didn't detect an advantage of theory.

The US CDC changed its website's claims about #Autism and #Vaccines on November 19 2025. A high-powered experiment found the change caused differences in the perceived #risk and uncertainty about vaccination, trust in CDC, and reliance on #logicalFallacies (but not vaccination intention). 👇 Thread

Maybe it's unsurprising that #trust in institutions like the #CDC is decreasing in the #USA, but what about other countries? Well @gerrymolloy.bsky.social and colleagues found a similar trend in #Ireland (Figure 1 via Kevin below) and #Canada. #publicHealth #Science #medSky #SciComm #EHPS2026 #edu

Poolside coffee + fruit breaks are the way! Thanks for choosing this venue for #EHPS2026, @ehpsconference.bsky.social!