Exploring audience segmentation: investigating adopter categories to diffuse an innovation to prevent famine in rural Mozambique.

Audience segmentation is a useful tool for designing effective campaigns. Further, the efficiency promised in diffusion science rests to some degree on the existence of adopter categories that can be identified and used to strategically disseminate prevention innovations. This study investigates the...

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Publicado en:Journal of Health Communication Vol. 18; no. 1; pp. 6 - 20
Autores principales: Smith RA, Findeis JL, Smith, Rachel A, Findeis, Jill L
Formato: research Journal Article
Publicado: Taylor & Francis Ltd Jan2013
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        affil: Department of Communication Arts and Sciences and the Center for Infectious Disease Dynamics, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania 16802, USA
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          Diffusion of Innovation
          Health Promotion Methods
          Rural Population
          Starvation Prevention and Control
          Adolescence
          Adult
          Aged
          Legumes Supply and Distribution
          Female
          Food Supply
          Human
          Middle Age
          Mozambique
          Qualitative Studies
          Young Adult
          Adolescent: 13-18 years
          Adult: 19-44 years
          Aged: 65+ years
          Middle Aged: 45-64 years
          Female
      ab: Audience segmentation is a useful tool for designing effective campaigns. Further, the efficiency promised in diffusion science rests to some degree on the existence of adopter categories that can be identified and used to strategically disseminate prevention innovations. This study investigates the potential to identify adopter categories in potential recipients (n = 127) of an innovation to prevent food shortages in Mozambique. A 5-class model was found using latent class analysis, but it showed important differences from existing descriptions of adopter categories. Implications for theory and practice are discussed.
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