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A Media Literacy Education Approach to High School Sexual Health Education: Immediate Effects of Media Aware on Adolescents’ Media, Sexual Health, and Communication Outcomes
Journal of Youth and Adolescence ( IF 5.625 ) Pub Date : 2022-02-03 , DOI: 10.1007/s10964-021-01567-0
Tracy M Scull 1 , Christina V Dodson 1 , Jacob G Geller 1 , Liz C Reeder 1 , Kathryn N Stump 1
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Media may function as sex educators for adolescents; unfortunately, media messages often glamorize risky sexual behaviors and unhealthy relationships and neglect sexual health behaviors and communication. Media Aware is a web-based comprehensive sexual health program for high school students that uses a media literacy education approach. It is designed to improve adolescents’ critical thinking about media messages and provide medically-accurate information and skills building related to sexual health and communication. A randomized controlled trial was conducted in 2019-2020 with students (grades 9 and 10; n = 590) from 17 high schools across the United States. The sample was 53% female, 58% white/Caucasian; and 13% Hispanic/Latinx. One high school teacher per school and all of their 9th and 10th grade students were randomly assigned to either the intervention or delayed-intervention (control) condition. The study assessed the immediate (posttest) and short-term (3-month) effects of Media Aware on adolescents’ media, sexual health, and communication outcomes. For 9 of the 17 schools, students were home from school due to the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic during the time of their 3-month data collection, which left the short-term analyses underpowered. However, several impacts of the program were found in the immediate posttest analyses. Media Aware was found to improve sexual health knowledge and redress inaccurate normative beliefs about the frequency of risky teen sex. Media Aware also improved critical thinking about media messages with demonstrated improvements in media message deconstruction skills and decreases in the perceived realism of media messages. Moderator analyses found some differential immediate effects of the program attributable to gender. Media Aware reduced girls’ normative beliefs about teen sex, generally, and increased their sexual health communication with parents as well as reduced boys’ acceptance of dating violence. Students gave positive feedback about Media Aware, especially related to the online format of the program. The results from this study provide evidence that Media Aware is an effective web-based program for positively enhancing high school students’ media, sexual health, and sexual health communication outcomes.



中文翻译:

高中性健康教育的媒体素养教育方法:媒体意识对青少年媒体、性健康和沟通结果的直接影响

媒体可以充当青少年的性教育者;不幸的是,媒体信息往往美化危险的性行为和不健康的关系,而忽视性健康行为和交流。Media Aware是一个基于网络的综合性健康计划,适用于使用媒体素养教育方法的高中生。它旨在提高青少年对媒体信息的批判性思维,并提供与性健康和交流相关的医学上准确的信息和技能建设。2019-2020 年对学生(9 年级和 10 年级;n = 590) 来自全美 17 所高中。样本为 53% 的女性,58% 的白人/高加索人;和 13% 西班牙裔/拉丁裔。每所学校的一名高中教师及其所有 9 年级和 10 年级的学生被随机分配到干预或延迟干预(控制)条件。该研究评估了媒体意识对青少年媒体、性健康和交流结果的直接(后测)和短期(3 个月)影响。对于 17 所学校中的 9 所,学生在 3 个月的数据收集期间由于 COVID-19 大流行的开始而放学回家,这使得短期分析的能力不足。然而,在即时的后测分析中发现了该计划的几个影响。媒体意识被发现可以提高性健康知识并纠正对青少年危险性行为频率的不准确规范信念。Media Aware还改进了对媒体信息的批判性思维,媒体信息解构技能得到了提高,媒体信息的感知真实性降低。主持人分析发现该计划的一些不同的直接影响归因于性别。Media Aware总体上降低了女孩对青少年性行为的规范信念,并增加了她们与父母的性健康沟通,并降低了男孩对约会暴力的接受程度。学生们对Media Aware给予了积极的反馈,特别是与该计划的在线格式有关。这项研究的结果提供了证据表明Media Aware是一个有效的基于网络的计划,用于积极提高高中生的媒体、性健康和性健康交流成果。

更新日期:2022-02-04
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