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

Innovation Research & Training

Status: Completed

Conditions: Tobacco Smoking; Alcohol Drinking

Treatments: Behavioral: Media Detective

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01060852

R44DA016044

Details and patient eligibility

About

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.

Full description

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.

Enrollment: 679 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 7 to 12 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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679 participants in 1 patient group

Media Detective

Experimental group

Description:

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.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Media Detective