Media-Smart Youth Program Evaluation Study

NCT00340795 | Completed

• 2 other identifiers: 99990519705-CH-N197
• Study Type: observational
• Target: N/A
• Locations: 1 country
• Sites: 1

Brief Summary

This study will evaluate the impact of a Media-Smart Youth (MSY) curriculum on adolescent knowledge and behavioral intent regarding media messages, nutrition, and physical activity. The study is part of the U.S. Government's efforts to fight obesity and increase physical activity among American youth. The MSY program seeks to empower adolescents to make healthful choices about nutrition and physical activity by helping them understand how media can influence their lives. This is important because it is estimated that young people view as many as 40,000 commercial messages a year on television alone, many of which promote unhealthy snack foods and beverages. Youth between 11 and 13 years of age who are participating in selected after-school programs in the Washington, D.C., metropolitan area may be eligible for this study. Participants are randomly assigned to either receive the MSY curriculum or serve as controls. Youth in the MSY group participate in a workshop consisting of 10 lessons and a creative project to create a media message for their peers on the topic of nutrition and physical activity. During the sessions, the young people receive information on nutrition and physical activity and learn about media production and how to critically examine the media. Youth in the control group participate in after-school programs unrelated to MSY. All participants fill out questionnaires measuring their knowledge, skills, and behavioral intent related to media analysis, nutrition and physical activity both at the start of the study and at its completion.

Conditions

Adolescent

Keywords

Media Analysis; Nutrition; Physical Activity; After-School; Exercise

Eligibility Criteria

• Age: 11 Years - 13 Years
• Sex: all
• Healthy Volunteers: Yes
• Age Groups: Child (0-17)

You may qualify if:

• Youth aged 11-13 are the primary participants in this study.
• All youth identified in either the treatment or control groups will be
• included in the study.
• At no point during the program implementation, including the data
• collection, will any participant be excluded from the group
• membership or activities.

You may not qualify if:

• Treatment subjects who have participated in less than seven lessons will be excluded from the treatment group for the purpose of analyzing program effects.
• They will, however, be included in intent-to-treat analyses to check for biases from excluding these participants.

Sponsors & Collaborators

• Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD): lead

Study Sites (1)

Academy for Education Development

Washington D.C., District of Columbia, United States

Location

Related Publications (1)

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  PMID: 9699231 BACKGROUND

MeSH Terms

Conditions

Motor Activity

Condition Hierarchy (Ancestors)

Behavior

Study Design

• Study Type: observational
• Sponsor Type: NIH

Study Record Dates

• First Submitted: June 19, 2006
• First Posted: June 21, 2006
• Study Start: August 4, 2005
• Study Completion: March 7, 2007
• Last Updated: July 2, 2017

Record last verified: 2007-03-07

Locations

US (1)