Clinical trial NCT03855033: Feasibility Study of the Online High School Media Aware Program
Official title: Web-based High School Media Literacy for Healthy Relationships,
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: COMPLETED
Phase: NA
Conditions: Sexual Behavior
Lead sponsor: Innovation Research & Training
Sponsor class: OTHER
First posted: 2019-02-26
Enrollment: 367
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 12
Maximum age (years): 17
Standard ages: CHILD
Accepts healthy volunteers: yes
Allocation: RANDOMIZED
Intervention model: PARALLEL
Primary purpose: PREVENTION

Brief summary: This is a pretest-posttest feasibility study of Media Aware Sexual Health - High School, an interactive web-based comprehensive sexual health media literacy education program for high school students. The program is designed to develop students' critical thinking skills and promote sexual health. It is hypothesized that this program will enhance adolescents' media literacy skills, sexual health knowledge, cognitions (i.e., attitudes, self-efficacy, and norms), and behaviors regarding healthy sexual decision-making.


Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

1. Students must be in grades 9 or 10 in participating classrooms at participating schools.
2. Students must be able to speak and read English because the study materials (e.g., questionnaires) and the program are in English.
3. Students must have appropriate permissions to receive sex education per school districts' policy (i.e., opt-in policy or opt-out policy).

Primary outcomes:
measure: Change in willingness to engage in unprotected sex
timeFrame: pretest and posttest (approximately one week after pretest)
measure: Change in willingness to hook up against own wishes
timeFrame: pretest and posttest (approximately one week after pretest)
measure: Change in intentions to use contraception/protection
timeFrame: pretest and posttest (approximately one week after pretest)
measure: Change in intentions to engage in sexual activity
timeFrame: pretest and posttest (approximately one week after pretest)
Secondary outcomes:
measure: Efficacy to refuse sexual activity
timeFrame: pretest and posttest (approximately one week after pretest)
measure: Efficacy to communicate before sex
timeFrame: pretest and posttest (approximately one week after pretest)
measure: Efficacy to use contraception/protection
timeFrame: pretest and posttest (approximately one week after pretest)
measure: Intentions to communicate before sex
timeFrame: pretest and posttest (approximately one week after pretest)
measure: Sexual health knowledge
timeFrame: pretest and posttest (approximately one week after pretest)
measure: Norms - Frequency of teen risky sexual activity (%)
timeFrame: pretest and posttest (approximately one week after pretest)
measure: Norms - teen sexual activity (%)
timeFrame: pretest and posttest (approximately one week after pretest)
measure: Perceived realism of media messages
timeFrame: pretest and posttest (approximately one week after pretest)
measure: Perceived similarity to media messages
timeFrame: pretest and posttest (approximately one week after pretest)
measure: Cognitive elaboration of advertisement
timeFrame: pretest and posttest (approximately one week after pretest)
measure: Media Skepticism
timeFrame: pretest and posttest (approximately one week after pretest)
measure: Teen Sex Attitudes
timeFrame: pretest and posttest (approximately one week after pretest)
measure: Risky Teen Sex Attitudes
timeFrame: pretest and posttest (approximately one week after pretest)
measure: Teen Contraception Use Attitudes
timeFrame: pretest and posttest (approximately one week after pretest)
measure: Teen Sexual Communication Attitudes
timeFrame: pretest and posttest (approximately one week after pretest)
Other outcomes:
measure: Intent to intervene as bystander
timeFrame: pretest and posttest (approximately one week after pretest)
measure: Efficacy to intervene as bystander
timeFrame: pretest and posttest (approximately one week after pretest)
measure: Belief in rape myths
timeFrame: pretest and posttest (approximately one week after pretest)
measure: Acceptance of strict gender role stereotypes
timeFrame: pretest and posttest (approximately one week after pretest)
measure: Acceptance of dating violence
timeFrame: pretest and posttest (approximately one week after pretest)
Locations:
city: Durham
country: United States
facility: innovation Research & Training
state: North Carolina
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