Rajiv N. Rimal - Publications

Affiliations: 
Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 
Area:
Public Health, Epidemiology

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2021 Holroyd TA, Limaye RJ, Gerber JE, Rimal RN, Musci RJ, Brewer J, Sutherland A, Blunt M, Geller G, Salmon DA. Development of a Scale to Measure Trust in Public Health Authorities: Prevalence of Trust and Association with Vaccination. Journal of Health Communication. 1-9. PMID 33998402 DOI: 10.1080/10810730.2021.1927259  0.558
2019 Sedlander E, Rimal RN. Beyond Individual-Level Theorizing in Social Norms Research: How Collective Norms and Media Access Affect Adolescents' Use of Contraception. The Journal of Adolescent Health : Official Publication of the Society For Adolescent Medicine. 64: S31-S36. PMID 30914165 DOI: 10.1016/J.Jadohealth.2018.12.020  0.309
2019 Bieniek-Tobasco A, McCormick S, Rimal RN, Harrington CB, Shafer M, Shaikh H. Communicating climate change through documentary film: imagery, emotion, and efficacy Climatic Change. 154: 1-18. DOI: 10.1007/S10584-019-02408-7  0.304
2018 Sedlander E, Bingenheimer JB, Thiongo M, Gichangi P, Rimal RN, Edberg M, Munar W. "They Destroy the Reproductive System": Exploring the Belief that Modern Contraceptive Use Causes Infertility. Studies in Family Planning. PMID 30411794 DOI: 10.1111/Sifp.12076  0.348
2018 Sedlander E, Bingenheimer JB, Edberg MC, Rimal RN, Shaikh H, Munar W. Understanding modern contraception uptake in one Ethiopian community: a case study. Reproductive Health. 15: 111. PMID 29925395 DOI: 10.1186/S12978-018-0550-3  0.345
2017 Juon HS, Rimal RN, Klassen A, Lee S. Social Norm, Family Communication, and HBV Screening among Asian Americans. Journal of Health Communication. 22: 981-989. PMID 29173103 DOI: 10.1080/10810730.2017.1388454  0.304
2017 Ranjit YS, Snyder LB, Hamilton MA, Rimal RN. Self-Determination Theory and Risk Behavior in a Collectivistic Society: Preventing Reckless Driving in Urban Nepal. Journal of Health Communication. 1-10. PMID 28753075 DOI: 10.1080/10810730.2017.1341569  0.363
2017 Juon H, Rimal R, Lee S. Abstract C72: Social norms, family communication, and hepatitis B screening among Asian Americans Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention. 26. DOI: 10.1158/1538-7755.Disp16-C72  0.328
2016 Thatte N, Bingenheimer JB, Ndiaye K, Rimal RN. Unpacking the Barriers to Reproductive Health Services in Ghana: HIV/STI Testing, Abortion and Contraception. African Journal of Reproductive Health. 20: 53-61. PMID 29553164 DOI: 10.29063/Ajrh2016/V20I2.6  0.373
2016 Kaufman MR, Mooney A, Gebretsadik LA, Sudhakar MN, Rieder R, Limaye RJ, Girma E, Rimal RN. The Differential Effects of an Opt-Out HIV Testing Policy for Pregnant Women in Ethiopia When Accounting for Stigma: Secondary Analysis of DHS Data. Prevention Science : the Official Journal of the Society For Prevention Research. PMID 27981447 DOI: 10.1007/S11121-016-0740-6  0.668
2016 Padon AA, Rimal RN, Jernigan D, Siegel M, Dejong W. Tapping Into Motivations for Drinking Among Youth: Normative Beliefs About Alcohol Use Among Underage Drinkers in the United States. Journal of Health Communication. 1-9. PMID 27668832 DOI: 10.1080/10810730.2016.1222030  0.323
2016 Borsky AE, McDonnell K, Turner MM, Rimal R. Raising a Red Flag on Dating Violence: Evaluation of a Low-Resource, College-Based Bystander Behavior Intervention Program. Journal of Interpersonal Violence. PMID 26965908 DOI: 10.1177/0886260516635322  0.369
2016 Borsky AE, McDonnell K, Rimal RN, Turner M. Assessing Bystander Behavior Intentions Toward Friends to Prevent Dating Violence: Development of the Bystander Behavior Intentions-Friends Scale Through Concept Mapping and Exploratory Factor Analysis. Violence and Victims. PMID 26822267 DOI: 10.1891/0886-6708.Vv-D-13-00196  0.36
2015 Limaye RJ, Rimal RN, Mkandawire G, Kamath V. Tapping Into Traditional Norms for Preventing HIV and Unintended Pregnancy: Harnessing the Influence of Grandmothers (Agogos) in Malawi. International Quarterly of Community Health Education. 36: 53-70. PMID 26608074 DOI: 10.1177/0272684X15615446  0.654
2015 Roter DL, Erby LH, Rimal RN, Smith KC, Larson S, Bennett IM, Cole KW, Guan Y, Molloy M, Bienstock J. Empowering Women's Prenatal Communication: Does Literacy Matter? Journal of Health Communication. 20: 60-8. PMID 26513032 DOI: 10.1080/10810730.2015.1080330  0.301
2015 Rimal RN, Sripad P, Speizer IS, Calhoun LM. Interpersonal communication as an agent of normative influence: a mixed method study among the urban poor in India. Reproductive Health. 12: 71. PMID 26265221 DOI: 10.1186/S12978-015-0061-4  0.324
2015 Chung AH, Rimal RN. Applying Choice Architecture Principles to Understand HIV Testing: Findings From Malawi and Zimbabwe. Aids Education and Prevention : Official Publication of the International Society For Aids Education. 27: 362-72. PMID 26241385 DOI: 10.1521/Aeap.2015.27.4.362  0.465
2015 Chung AH, Rimal RN. Revisiting the importance of knowledge: from namibia, a case for promoting knowledge by campaigns to reduce stigma. Health Education & Behavior : the Official Publication of the Society For Public Health Education. 42: 249-56. PMID 25288490 DOI: 10.1177/1090198114550824  0.473
2015 Rimal RN, Chung AH, Dhungana N. Media as Educator, Media as Disruptor: Conceptualizing the Role of Social Context in Media Effects Journal of Communication. 65: 863-887. DOI: 10.1111/Jcom.12175  0.418
2015 Rimal RN, Lapinski MK. A Re-Explication of Social Norms, Ten Years Later Communication Theory. 25: 393-409. DOI: 10.1111/Comt.12080  0.324
2014 Mead EL, Rimal RN, Ferrence R, Cohen JE. Understanding the sources of normative influence on behavior: the example of tobacco. Social Science & Medicine (1982). 115: 139-43. PMID 24910005 DOI: 10.1016/J.Socscimed.2014.05.030  0.332
2014 Kaufman MR, Rimal RN, Carrasco M, Fajobi O, Soko A, Limaye R, Mkandawire G. Using social and behavior change communication to increase HIV testing and condom use: the Malawi BRIDGE Project. Aids Care. 26: S46-9. PMID 24735337 DOI: 10.1080/09540121.2014.906741  0.716
2014 Limaye RJ, Rutkow L, Rimal RN, Jernigan DH. Informal alcohol in Malawi: stakeholder perceptions and policy recommendations. Journal of Public Health Policy. 35: 119-31. PMID 24257631 DOI: 10.1057/Jphp.2013.43  0.603
2014 Girma E, Gebretsadik LA, Kaufman MR, Rimal RN, Morankar SN, Limaye RJ. Stigma against people with HIV/AIDS in rural Ethiopia, 2005 to 2011: signs and predictors of improvement. Aids and Behavior. 18: 1046-53. PMID 24072513 DOI: 10.1007/S10461-013-0611-0  0.675
2014 Borzekowski D, Clearfield E, Rimal R, Gielen A. Young children's perceptions of fire-safety messages: do framing and parental mediation matter? Journal of Burn Care & Research : Official Publication of the American Burn Association. 35: 303-12. PMID 23877137 DOI: 10.1097/Bcr.0B013E31829Afe6C  0.306
2014 Woolf J, Rimal RN, Sripad P. Understanding the influence of proximal networks on high school athletes' intentions to use androgenic anabolic steroids Journal of Sport Management. 28: 8-20. DOI: 10.1123/Jsm.2013-0046  0.307
2013 Rimal RN, Mollen S. The role of issue familiarity and social norms: findings on new college students' alcohol use intentions. Journal of Public Health Research. 2: 31-7. PMID 25170478 DOI: 10.4081/Jphr.2013.E7  0.365
2013 Mollen S, Rimal RN, Ruiter RA, Jang SA, Kok G. Intervening or interfering? The influence of injunctive and descriptive norms on intervention behaviours in alcohol consumption contexts. Psychology & Health. 28: 561-78. PMID 23289490 DOI: 10.1080/08870446.2012.752827  0.343
2013 Jang SA, Rimal RN, Cho N. Normative influences and alcohol consumption: the role of drinking refusal self-efficacy. Health Communication. 28: 443-51. PMID 22809467 DOI: 10.1080/10410236.2012.691455  0.337
2013 Jang SA, Rimal RN, Cho NA. Exploring Parental Influences in the Theory of Normative Social Behavior: Findings From a Korean High School Sample Communication Research. 40: 52-72. DOI: 10.1177/0093650211407061  0.312
2013 Rimal RN, Limaye RJ, Roberts P, Brown J, Mkandawire G. The Role of Interpersonal Communication in Reducing Structural Disparities and Psychosocial Deficiencies: Experience From the Malawi BRIDGE Project Journal of Communication. 63: 51-71. DOI: 10.1111/Jcom.12000  0.689
2013 Marfani F, Rimal RN, Juon HS. Understanding Immigrant Women's Information Needs: Role of Acculturation in Breast Cancer Prevention among Immigrant Asian Indian Women Journal of Applied Communication Research. 41: 126-140. DOI: 10.1080/00909882.2012.754485  0.306
2012 Limaye RJ, Rimal RN, Mkandawire G, Roberts P, Dothi W, Brown J. Talking About Sex in Malawi: Toward a Better Understanding of Interpersonal Communication for HIV Prevention. Journal of Public Health Research. 1: 117-25. PMID 25170453 DOI: 10.4081/Jphr.2012.E17  0.644
2012 Mead E, Roser-Renouf C, Rimal RN, Flora JA, Maibach EW, Leiserowitz A. Information Seeking about Global Climate Change among Adolescents: The Role of Risk Perceptions, Efficacy Beliefs and Parental Influences. Atlantic Journal of Communication. 20: 31-52. PMID 22866024 DOI: 10.1080/15456870.2012.637027  0.35
2012 Nambiar D, Rimal RN. Duty and destiny: psychometric properties and correlates of HIV-related stigma among youth NGO workers in Delhi, India. Aids Care. 24: 1384-91. PMID 22292453 DOI: 10.1080/09540121.2011.648597  0.67
2011 Creel AH, Rimal RN, Mkandawire G, Böse K, Brown JW. Effects of a mass media intervention on HIV-related stigma: 'Radio Diaries' program in Malawi. Health Education Research. 26: 456-65. PMID 21393376 DOI: 10.1093/Her/Cyr012  0.759
2011 Creel AH, Rimal RN. Factors related to HIV-testing behavior and interest in testing in Namibia. Aids Care. 23: 901-7. PMID 21390881 DOI: 10.1080/09540121.2010.540227  0.768
2011 Berendes S, Rimal RN. Addressing the slow uptake of HIV testing in Malawi: the role of stigma, self-efficacy, and knowledge in the Malawi BRIDGE Project. The Journal of the Association of Nurses in Aids Care : Janac. 22: 215-28. PMID 21185751 DOI: 10.1016/j.jana.2010.08.005  0.373
2010 Rimal RN, Juon HS. Use of the risk perception attitude framework for promoting breast cancer prevention Journal of Applied Social Psychology. 40: 287-310. DOI: 10.1111/J.1559-1816.2009.00574.X  0.306
2009 Rimal RN, Brown J, Mkandawire G, Folda L, Böse K, Creel AH. Audience segmentation as a social-marketing tool in health promotion: use of the risk perception attitude framework in HIV prevention in Malawi. American Journal of Public Health. 99: 2224-9. PMID 19833992 DOI: 10.2105/Ajph.2008.155234  0.759
2009 Rimal RN, Lapinski MK. Why health communication is important in public health. Bulletin of the World Health Organization. 87: 247-247a. PMID 19551226 DOI: 10.2471/Blt.08.056713  0.368
2009 Rimal RN, Bose K, Brown J, Mkandawire G, Folda L. Extending the purview of the risk perception attitude framework: findings from HIV/AIDS prevention research in Malawi. Health Communication. 24: 210-8. PMID 19415553 DOI: 10.1080/10410230902804109  0.454
2009 Lapinski MK, Rimal RN, Klein KA, Shulman HC. Risk perceptions of people living with HIV/AIDS: how similarity affects optimistic bias. Journal of Health Psychology. 14: 251-7. PMID 19237492 DOI: 10.1177/1359105308100209  0.457
2008 Smith RA, Rimal R. The impact of social capital on HIV-related actions as mediated by personal and proxy efficacies in Namibia. Aids and Behavior. 13: 133-44. PMID 18941884 DOI: 10.1007/S10461-008-9476-Z  0.461
2008 Rimal RN, Creel AH. Applying social marketing principles to understand the effects of the radio diaries program in reducing HIV/AIDS stigma in Malawi. Health Marketing Quarterly. 25: 119-46. PMID 18935882 DOI: 10.1080/07359680802126186  0.763
2008 Ho LS, Gittelsohn J, Rimal R, Treuth MS, Sharma S, Rosecrans A, Harris SB. An integrated multi-institutional diabetes prevention program improves knowledge and healthy food acquisition in northwestern Ontario First Nations. Health Education & Behavior : the Official Publication of the Society For Public Health Education. 35: 561-73. PMID 18456866 DOI: 10.1177/1090198108315367  0.337
2008 Rimal RN. Modeling the relationship between descriptive norms and behaviors: a test and extension of the theory of normative social behavior (TNSB). Health Communication. 23: 103-16. PMID 18443998 DOI: 10.1080/10410230801967791  0.361
2007 Real K, Rimal RN. Friends talk to friends about drinking: exploring the role of peer communication in the theory of normative social behavior. Health Communication. 22: 169-80. PMID 17668996 DOI: 10.1080/10410230701454254  0.356
2007 Lapinski MK, Rimal RN, Devries R, Lee EL. The role of group orientation and descriptive norms on water conservation attitudes and behaviors. Health Communication. 22: 133-42. PMID 17668993 DOI: 10.1080/10410230701454049  0.339
2006 Turner MM, Rimal RN, Morrison D, Kim H. The role of anxiety in seeking and retaining risk information: Testing the risk perception attitude framework in two studies Human Communication Research. 32: 130-156. DOI: 10.1111/J.1468-2958.2006.00006.X  0.347
2006 Yanovitzky I, Rimal RN. Communication and normative influence: An introduction to the special issue Communication Theory. 16: 1-6. DOI: 10.1111/J.1468-2885.2006.00002.X  0.349
2005 Rimal RN, Lapinski MK, Cook RJ, Real K. Moving toward a theory of normative influences: how perceived benefits and similarity moderate the impact of descriptive norms on behaviors. Journal of Health Communication. 10: 433-50. PMID 16199387 DOI: 10.1080/10810730591009880  0.343
2005 Rimal RN, Real K. How behaviors are influenced by perceived norms a test of the theory of normative social behavior Communication Research. 32: 389-414. DOI: 10.1177/0093650205275385  0.366
2005 Lapinski MK, Rimal RN. An explication of social norms Communication Theory. 15: 127-147. DOI: 10.1111/J.1468-2885.2005.Tb00329.X  0.361
2004 Stephens KK, Rimal RN, Flora JA. Expanding the reach of health campaigns: community organizations as meta-channels for the dissemination of health information. Journal of Health Communication. 9: 97-111. PMID 14960406 DOI: 10.1080/10810730490271557  0.322
2003 Rimal RN. Intergenerational transmission of health: the role of intrapersonal, interpersonal, and communicative factors. Health Education & Behavior : the Official Publication of the Society For Public Health Education. 30: 10-28. PMID 12564665 DOI: 10.1177/1090198102239256  0.329
2003 Rimal RN, Real K. Perceived risk and efficacy beliefs as motivators of change: Use of the risk perception attitude (RPA) framework to understand health behaviors Human Communication Research. 29: 370-399. DOI: 10.1111/J.1468-2958.2003.Tb00844.X  0.348
2003 Rimal RN, Real K. Understanding the influence of perceived norms on behaviors Communication Theory. 13: 184-203. DOI: 10.1111/J.1468-2885.2003.Tb00288.X  0.33
2001 Rimal RN. Perceived risk and self-efficacy as motivators: Understanding individuals' long-term use of health information Journal of Communication. 51: 633-654. DOI: 10.1111/J.1460-2466.2001.Tb02900.X  0.336
2000 Rimal RN. Closing the knowledge-behavior gap in health promotion: the mediating role of self-efficacy Health Communication. 12: 219-237. PMID 10938914 DOI: 10.1207/S15327027Hc1203_01  0.308
1999 Rimal RN, Flora JA, Schooler C. Achieving improvements in overall health orientation: Effects of campaign exposure, information seeking, and health media use Communication Research. 26: 322-348. DOI: 10.1177/009365099026003003  0.344
1998 Rimal RN, Flora JA. Bidirectional familial influences in dietary behavior: Test of a model of campaign influences Human Communication Research. 24: 610-637. DOI: 10.1111/J.1468-2958.1998.Tb00433.X  0.323
1997 Rimal RN, Ratzan SC, Arntson P, Freimuth VS. Reconceptualizing the "Patient": Health Care Promotion as Increasing Citizens' Decision-Making Competencies Health Communication. 9: 61-74. DOI: 10.1207/S15327027Hc0901_5  0.3
1997 Flora JA, Saphir MN, Schooler C, Rimal RN. Toward a framework for intervention channels: Reach, involvement, and impact Annals of Epidemiology. 7. DOI: 10.1016/S1047-2797(97)80013-0  0.336
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