Feasibility Study of the Online High School Media Aware Program

NCT03855033 | Completed

• 1 other identifier: iRT-Media Aware HS-Phase I
• Study Type: interventional
• Target: 367
• Locations: 1 country
• Sites: 1

Brief Summary

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.

Conditions

Sexual Behavior

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcomes (4)

• Change in willingness to engage in unprotected sex

  4-point Likert scale (strongly disagree; disagree; agree; strongly agree) assessing the degree to which one is willing to engage in unprotected sex (Suppose you were with a boyfriend/girlfriend. He/she wants to have sex, but neither of you have any form of protection. In this situation, how willing would you be to go ahead and hook-up anyway?).

  pretest and posttest (approximately one week after pretest)

• Change in willingness to hook up against own wishes

  4-point Likert scale (strongly disagree; disagree; agree; strongly agree) assessing the degree to which one is willing to hook up with someone even if they are not sure that they really want to. (Suppose you were with a boyfriend/girlfriend. He/she wants to hook-up, but you are not sure that you want to. In this situation, how willing would you be to go ahead and hook-up anyway?).

  pretest and posttest (approximately one week after pretest)

• Change in intentions to use contraception/protection

  4-point Likert scale (not at all likely; unlikely; likely; extremely likely) assessing intentions to use contraception (e.g., if you were to have vaginal or anal sex, how likely would you be to use a condom?).

  pretest and posttest (approximately one week after pretest)

• Change in intentions to engage in sexual activity

  4-point Likert scale (not at all likely; unlikely; likely; extremely likely) assessing participants intentions to engage in sex in the next year (How likely is that you will have any type of sexual contact with another person (oral sex, anal sex, vaginal sex, or genital-to-genital contact) in the next year?).

  pretest and posttest (approximately one week after pretest)

Secondary Outcomes (15)

• Efficacy to refuse sexual activity

  pretest and posttest (approximately one week after pretest)

• Efficacy to communicate before sex

  pretest and posttest (approximately one week after pretest)

• Efficacy to use contraception/protection

  pretest and posttest (approximately one week after pretest)

• Intentions to communicate before sex

  pretest and posttest (approximately one week after pretest)

• Sexual health knowledge

  pretest and posttest (approximately one week after pretest)

Other Outcomes (5)

• Intent to intervene as bystander

  pretest and posttest (approximately one week after pretest)

• Efficacy to intervene as bystander

  pretest and posttest (approximately one week after pretest)

• Belief in rape myths

  pretest and posttest (approximately one week after pretest)

Study Arms (2)

Media Aware Sexual Health - High School

EXPERIMENTAL

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

Behavioral: Media Aware Sexual Health - High School

Typical Health Education Programming

NO INTERVENTION

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

Interventions

Media Aware Sexual Health - High School BEHAVIORAL

Media Aware Sexual Health is a web-based comprehensive sexual health education program for high school students that uses a media literacy approach.

Also known as: Media Aware

Media Aware Sexual Health - High School

Eligibility Criteria

• Age: 12 Years - 17 Years
• Sex: all
• Healthy Volunteers: Yes
• Age Groups: Child (0-17)

You may qualify if:

• Students must be in grades 9 or 10 in participating classrooms at participating schools.
• Students must be able to speak and read English because the study materials (e.g., questionnaires) and the program are in English.
• Students must have appropriate permissions to receive sex education per school districts' policy (i.e., opt-in policy or opt-out policy).

Sponsors & Collaborators

• Innovation Research & Training: lead

Study Sites (1)

innovation Research & Training

Durham, North Carolina, 27707, United States

Location

MeSH Terms

Conditions

Sexual Behavior

Condition Hierarchy (Ancestors)

Behavior

Study Design

• Study Type: interventional
• Phase: not applicable
• Allocation: RANDOMIZED
• Masking: NONE
• Purpose: PREVENTION
• Intervention Model: PARALLEL
• Sponsor Type: OTHER
• Responsible Party: SPONSOR

Study Record Dates

• First Submitted: February 21, 2019
• First Posted: February 26, 2019
• Study Start: January 24, 2018
• Primary Completion: March 12, 2018
• Study Completion: March 12, 2018
• Last Updated: February 26, 2019

Record last verified: 2019-02

Data Sharing

• IPD Sharing: Will not share

Locations

US (1)