Evaluation of a Middle School Comprehensive Sexual Health Media Literacy Education Program (MASH)

Innovation Research & Training

Status: Completed

Conditions: Safe Sex

Treatments: Behavioral: Media Aware-Sexual Health

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other; NIH

Identifiers

NCT02359422

2R44HD061193-02 (U.S. NIH Grant/Contract)

iRT-2R44HD061193-02-RCT

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this study is to conduct a randomized controlled trial of a media literacy education program for middle school students with the goal of enhancing decision-making skills to prevent early and risky sexual behavior and teen pregnancy, and encourage healthy relationships.

Enrollment: 1,017 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 10 to 15 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Must be able to read and write in English

Exclusion criteria

• None

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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1,017 participants in 2 patient groups

Media Aware-Sexual Health

Experimental group

Description:

10-lesson middle school, comprehensive sexual health program developed based upon the Message Interpretation Processing model designed to increase critical thinking skills about media messages and reduce risky sexual behaviors.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Media Aware-Sexual Health

Wait-list control

No Intervention group