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Social marketing risk-framing approaches for dental sealants in rural American Indian children
Objective: To compare three variants of a culturally relevant and theoretically based message to determine the most influential risk-framing approach for improving intention to place dental sealants for preschool children.
Design and Sample: A convenience sample of adult, American Indian participants (n = 89) attending a community health fair were assigned to view a gain-framed, loss-framed, or mix-framed dental sealant message.
Measures: We compared participants' scores on a 46-item survey to determine the relative effect of the frame assignment on seven indices of behavior change.