Is public communication about end-of-life care helping to inform all?
The African American news media sampled are less likely than mainstream news media to portray negative cancer outcomes and end-of-life care. Given media's segmented audiences, these findings raise concerns that not all audiences are being informed equally well. Because media content is modifiable, there may be opportunities to improve public cancer communication.
The results may reflect a difference in the modulation of phasic arousal between the disorders. They may also express an impaired between-session habituation or contextual sensitization in PTSD.