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

NCT01060852 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 679

Last updated 2014-04-11

No results posted yet for this study

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.

Conditions

  • Alcohol Drinking
  • Tobacco Smoking

Interventions

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.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Innovation Research & Training

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Janis B Kupersmidt, PhD · Innovation Research & Training

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
PREVENTION
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
7 Years
Max Age
12 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2006-03-31
Primary Completion
2007-06-30
Completion
2007-06-30

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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