Type of Document	Dissertation
Author	Smith, Scott Alan
Author's Email Address	sas08e@fsu.edu
URN	etd-07112011-164718
Title	College Students' Willingness to be Honest and Initiate Discussion With Healthcare Providers About Their Past Sexual Behaviors
Degree	Doctor of Philosophy
Department	Communication, School of; Communication Science and Disorders, School of; and the Library and Inform
Advisory Committee	Advisor Name Title Gary Heald Committee Chair Juliann Cortese Committee Member Mia Liza A. Lustria Committee Member Stephen McDowell Committee Member Thomas McCaleb University Representative
Keywords	std initiation honesty college deception sex patient communication communication student lying
Date of Defense	2011-05-11
Availability	unrestricted
Abstract This dissertation discusses and evaluates various cognitive measures to predict college students’ intentions to either initiate a discussion about sex or lie about past sexual behaviors to a primary healthcare provider. The following chapters explore stigma, concerns of providers’ judgments, and shame, as well as variables of the Protection Motivation Theory. Results suggest that self-efficacy to initiate a discussion or lie to a provider about sex is the strongest independent predictor of college students’ behavioral intentions. The dissertation concludes with the limitations to the study and an overview of the future research aimed at improving application of the Protection Motivation Theory to provider-patient communication about sex.
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