Trial reportJournal of youth and adolescence2022
A Media Literacy Education Approach to High School Sexual Health Education: Immediate Effects of Media Aware on Adolescents' Media, Sexual Health, and Communication Outcomes.
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- Web-based sexual and reproductive health education for adolescents aged 10-17 years: a systematic review and meta-analysis.BMJ paediatrics open · 2025Pooled it
- Effectiveness of digital interventions to reduce school-age adolescent sexual risks: A systematic review.Journal of nursing scholarship : an official publication of Sigma Theta Tau International Honor Society of Nursing · 2025Pooled it
- Effect of a web-based intervention on family sex education for preschool children's parents: a cluster randomized trial.Frontiers in public health · 2026Trial
- Looking Through a Cultural Perspective: Autistic Young Adults' Experiences and Expectations in Sexuality and Relationship Education in the U.S.Journal of autism and developmental disorders · 2026Article
- Research trends in educational interventions for digital sexual media literacy among adolescents: a scoping review (2015-2025).Women's health nursing (Seoul, Korea) · 2026Article
- A healthy dose of skepticism: The relationship between young adolescents' sexual media exposure and sexual intentions, and the moderating role of media skepticism.Psychology of popular media · 2026Article
- Prevalence of sexual and reproductive health issues among school-going adolescents in Hulu Langat District, Malaysia: Findings from the Borang Saringan Status Kesihatan Remaja - A cross-sectional study.Malaysian family physician : the official journal of the Academy of Family Physicians of Malaysia · 2026Article
- Social media's effect on sexual literacy and healthy life skills in young adults.BMC public health · 2025Article
- Parent-Teen Sexual Health Communication and Teens' Health Information and Service Seeking.JAMA network open · 2025Article
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- Adolescents' Sexual Health During the COVID-19 Outbreak: A Systematic Review.Health science reports · 2025Review
- Media literacy interventions: meta-analytic review of 40 years of research.Human communication research · 2025Article
- Interventions to Improve Sexual and Reproductive Health Related Knowledge and Attitudes Among the Adolescents: Scoping Review.Risk management and healthcare policy · 2025Review
- Magnitude of sexual and reproductive health communication between parents and their adolescents: Evidence from Osun State, Nigeria.PLOS global public health · 2025Article
- Promoting Comprehensive Sexuality Education in Pakistan Using a Cocreated Social Media Intervention: Development and Pilot Testing Study.JMIR formative research · 2024Article
- Acceptability and fidelity of a media literacy education-based, comprehensive sexual health program for college students: A multi-method student-centered evaluation.American journal of sexuality education · 2024Article
- Conceptions of Consensual versus Non-Consensual Sexual Activity among Young People from Colombia.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- The Media and Sexual Violence Among Adolescents: Findings from a Qualitative Study of Educators Across Vietnam.Archives of sexual behavior · 2024Article
- Integrating digital and interactive approaches in adolescent health literacy: a comprehensive review.Frontiers in public health · 2024Review
- Critical media attitudes as a buffer against the harmful effects of pornography on beliefs about sexual and dating violence.Sex education · 2024Article
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Abstract
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.
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