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Health‐related Content of Selected Sunday Comic Strips
Author(s) -
Sofalvi Alan J.,
Drolet Judy C.
Publication year - 1986
Publication title -
journal of school health
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.851
H-Index - 86
eISSN - 1746-1561
pISSN - 0022-4391
DOI - 10.1111/j.1746-1561.1986.tb01190.x
Subject(s) - comic strip , comics , strips , demographics , globe , psychology , medicine , sociology , demography , computer science , literature , art , artificial intelligence , neuroscience
The appearance of health‐related topics in selected comic strips, how often they appeared, and in which comic strips health‐related topics appeared most often were examined in this study. Sunday comic strips from the 1956, 1968, 1972, and 1980 editions of the St. Louis Globe‐Democrat and St. Louis Post‐Dispatch comprised the study data base. Data recorded from the comic strips included name of strip, author, frequency and percentage of health‐related categories, comic strip type, demographics of comic strip characters, and setting and situation of health‐related topics. A total of 9,871 comic strips was analyzed. The Illness, Gender Roles, and Safety categories contained the most comic strips with health‐related topics. Male characters appeared twice as often as females. Adults appeared more often than teens and children; the home was the most common setting.