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NCT Number: NCT01060852

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

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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Key information

Conditions

Alcohol Drinking Behavior Drinking Behavior Smoking Tobacco Smoking Tobacco Use

Age range

7 year–12 year

Sex eligibility

All sexes

Study type

Interventional

Phase

Not applicable

Primary location

innovation Research & Training

Durham, North Carolina, 27707, United States

About this study

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.

Who can participate

Healthy volunteers accepted: Yes

Only the study team can determine whether someone qualifies for participation.

Inclusion criteria

  • Must be able to read and write in English

Exclusion criteria

  • None

Treatment and study plan

Media Detective

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.

Other names: Media literacy education

Primary outcomes

  1. Intent to alcohol or tobacco products

    Time frame: 2 weeks: pretest and posttest

Secondary outcomes

  1. Understanding of the persuasive intent of advertising

    Time frame: 2 weeks: pretest and posttest

  2. Media deconstruction skills

    Time frame: 2 weeks: pretest and posttest

  3. Interest in alcohol-branded merchandise

    Time frame: 2 weeks: pretest and posttest

  4. Self-efficacy to refuse offers to use alcohol or tobacco products

    Time frame: 2 weeks: pretest and posttest

Sponsors and collaborators

Lead sponsor

Innovation Research & Training

Other

Registry information

Official study title

Randomized Controlled Trial Efficacy Study of a Media Literacy Education Substance Use Prevention Program for Elementary School-Aged Children

Acronym: MD

Important dates

Study start
2006
Primary completion
2007
Study completion
2007
First posted
Feb 2, 2010
Registry last updated
Apr 11, 2014

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