Feasibility Study of the Online High School Media Aware Program (FS-OHSMAP)

Innovation Research & Training

Status: Completed

Conditions: Sexual Behavior

Treatments: Behavioral: Media Aware Sexual Health - High School

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03855033

iRT-Media Aware HS-Phase I

Details and patient eligibility

About

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.

Enrollment: 367 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 12 to 17 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion and exclusion 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).

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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367 participants in 2 patient groups

Media Aware Sexual Health - High School

Experimental group

Description:

Students received the web-based Media Aware Sexual Health - High School program.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Media Aware Sexual Health - High School

Typical Health Education Programming

No Intervention group

Description:

Students received their regular health education programming not related to sexual health education.