Evaluation of the Media Detective Program for Elementary School-Aged Children to Prevention Substance Use

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Basic Information

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Recruitment Status

COMPLETED

Clinical Phase

NA

Total Enrollment

679 participants

Study Classification

INTERVENTIONAL

Study Start Date

2006-03-31

Study Completion Date

2007-06-30

Brief Summary

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The purpose of this study was to determine whether a media literacy education program taught be teacher to late elementary school students (grades 3-5) positively affected students' critical thinking skills and substance use-related health outcomes.

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Detailed Description

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Media Detective is a 10-lesson elementary school, substance abuse prevention program developed based upon the Message Interpretation Processing model designed to increase children's critical thinking skills about media messages and reduce intent to use tobacco and alcohol products. The purpose of this study was to conduct a short-term randomized controlled trial study to evaluate the effectiveness of Media Detective for achieving these goals.

Conditions

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Alcohol Drinking Tobacco Smoking

Study Design

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Allocation Method

RANDOMIZED

Intervention Model

PARALLEL

Primary Study Purpose

PREVENTION

Blinding Strategy

NONE

Study Groups

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Media Detective

10-lesson elementary school, substance use prevention program developed based upon the Message Interpretation Processing model designed to increase children's critical thinking skills about media messages and reduce intent to use tobacco and alcohol products.

Group Type EXPERIMENTAL

Media Detective

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

10-lesson elementary school, media literacy education, substance use prevention program. Each lesson takes approximately 45 minutes to teach and was taught every school day for 2 weeks.

Interventions

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Media Detective

10-lesson elementary school, media literacy education, substance use prevention program. Each lesson takes approximately 45 minutes to teach and was taught every school day for 2 weeks.

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL