{"id":3988,"date":"2020-12-10T16:58:38","date_gmt":"2020-12-10T16:58:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/irtinc.us\/?post_type=avada_portfolio&#038;p=3988"},"modified":"2020-12-28T23:17:07","modified_gmt":"2020-12-28T23:17:07","slug":"efficacy-trial-of-media-aware-for-middle-school","status":"publish","type":"avada_portfolio","link":"https:\/\/irtinc.us\/es\/avada_portfolio\/efficacy-trial-of-media-aware-for-middle-school\/","title":{"rendered":"Efficacy Trial of Media Aware for Middle School"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"fusion-fullwidth fullwidth-box fusion-builder-row-1 fusion-flex-container nonhundred-percent-fullwidth non-hundred-percent-height-scrolling\" style=\"--awb-background-position:left top;--awb-border-sizes-top:0px;--awb-border-sizes-bottom:0px;--awb-border-sizes-left:0px;--awb-border-sizes-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-top-left:0px;--awb-border-radius-top-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-left:0px;--awb-padding-top:70px;--awb-padding-bottom:40px;--awb-flex-wrap:wrap;\" ><div class=\"fusion-builder-row fusion-row fusion-flex-align-items-flex-start fusion-flex-content-wrap\" style=\"max-width:calc( 1280px + 0px );margin-left: calc(-0px \/ 2 );margin-right: calc(-0px \/ 2 );\"><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-0 fusion_builder_column_1_1 1_1 fusion-flex-column fusion-flex-align-self-flex-start fusion-column-no-min-height\" style=\"--awb-bg-size:cover;--awb-width-large:100%;--awb-margin-top-large:2%;--awb-spacing-right-large:0px;--awb-margin-bottom-large:20px;--awb-spacing-left-large:0px;--awb-width-medium:100%;--awb-spacing-right-medium:0px;--awb-spacing-left-medium:0px;--awb-width-small:100%;--awb-spacing-right-small:0px;--awb-spacing-left-small:0px;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-flex-justify-content-flex-start fusion-content-layout-column\"><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-1\"><h2 class=\"heading-title\">Using media literacy education for adolescent sexual health promotion in middle school: Randomized control trial of Media Aware<\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Scull, T. M., Kupersmidt, J. B., Malik, C. V., &amp; Morgan-Lopez, A. A. (2018). Using media literacy education for adolescent sexual health promotion in middle school: Randomized control trial of Media Aware. <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Journal of Health Communication<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, 23(12), 1051-1063. doi:10.1080\/10810730.2018.<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/30468408\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">1548669<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<h2>Abstract<\/h2>\n<p><strong class=\"sub-title\">Objectives: <\/strong><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Examine the short-term efficacy of <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Media Aware<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, a middle school classroom-based media literacy education (MLE) program for improving adolescents\u2019 sexual health outcomes<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p><strong class=\"sub-title\">Methods: <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In a randomized control trial, schools were randomly assigned to the intervention (N = 5 schools) or health promotion control (N = 4 schools) group. Students completed questionnaires at pretest (N = 880 students) and immediate posttest (N = 926 students).<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong class=\"sub-title\">Results: <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Media Aware<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> program had a significant favorable impact on adolescent outcomes related to sexual health, including increased self-efficacy and intentions to use contraception, if they were to engage in sexual activity; enhanced positive attitudes, self-efficacy, and intentions to communicate about sexual health; decreased acceptance of dating violence and strict gender roles; and increased sexual health knowledge. Program effects were also found for media-related outcomes, including enhanced media deconstruction skills and increased media skepticism<\/span><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong class=\"sub-title\">Conclusions: <\/strong><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Media Aware<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> resulted in several favorable adolescent sexual health- and media-related outcomes and demonstrates that MLE can be an effective approach to sexual health education.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":3493,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"portfolio_category":[206,210],"portfolio_skills":[],"portfolio_tags":[],"class_list":["post-3988","avada_portfolio","type-avada_portfolio","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","portfolio_category-media-lit-pub","portfolio_category-sexual-relationship-pub"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/irtinc.us\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/avada_portfolio\/3988","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/irtinc.us\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/avada_portfolio"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/irtinc.us\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/avada_portfolio"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irtinc.us\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irtinc.us\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3988"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/irtinc.us\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/avada_portfolio\/3988\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5344,"href":"https:\/\/irtinc.us\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/avada_portfolio\/3988\/revisions\/5344"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irtinc.us\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3493"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/irtinc.us\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"portfolio_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irtinc.us\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/portfolio_category?post=3988"},{"taxonomy":"portfolio_skills","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irtinc.us\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/portfolio_skills?post=3988"},{"taxonomy":"portfolio_tags","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irtinc.us\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/portfolio_tags?post=3988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}