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

Alcohol Drinking Clinical Trial

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Official title:

Randomized Controlled Trial Efficacy Study of a Media Literacy Education Substance Use Prevention Program for Elementary School-Aged Children

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT01060852
• Other study ID #: R44DA016044
• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• First received: January 29, 2010
• Last updated: April 10, 2014
• Start date: March 2006
• Est. completion date: June 2007

Study information

• Verified date: April 2014
• Source: Innovation Research & Training
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Health authority: United States: Institutional Review Board
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

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.

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.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Enrollment: 679
• Est. completion date: June 2007
• Est. primary completion date: June 2007
• Accepts healthy volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers
• Gender: Both
• Age group: 7 Years to 12 Years

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• Must be able to read and write in English

Exclusion Criteria:

Study Design

Allocation: Randomized, Endpoint Classification: Efficacy Study, Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment, Masking: Open Label, Primary Purpose: Prevention

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Alcohol Drinking
• Tobacco Smoking

Intervention

Behavioral:
• Media Detective
10-lesson elementary school, media literacy education, substance use prevention program. Each lesson takes approximately 45 minutes to teach and was taught every school day for 2 weeks.

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
United States	innovation Research & Training	Durham	North Carolina

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
Innovation Research & Training

Country where clinical trial is conducted

United States, 

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	Intent to alcohol or tobacco products		2 weeks: pretest and posttest	No
Secondary	Understanding of the persuasive intent of advertising		2 weeks: pretest and posttest	No
Secondary	Media deconstruction skills		2 weeks: pretest and posttest	No
Secondary	Interest in alcohol-branded merchandise		2 weeks: pretest and posttest	No
Secondary	Self-efficacy to refuse offers to use alcohol or tobacco products		2 weeks: pretest and posttest	No

External Links

•   innovation Research & Training company website