Are media literacy interventions effective at changing attitudes and intentions towards risky health behaviors in adolescents? A meta-analytic review

Social influences and ‘new media’ may contribute to students participating in risky health be-haviors. An evidence-based, digital media literacy curriculum was delivered by members of a communitysubstance abuse prevention coalition to upper elementary-aged students in a local afterschool program.Written pre-post assessments of perceived media influence on their health risk behaviors were completedby participants. Mean pre-test scores for ‘Influence of the Internet’ were significantly (p<.01) higher thanpost-test scores. Results reflect participants reporting the internet had less influence on their health choicespost-program than pre-program. Media literacy interventions can be effective when used in the afterschoolsetting.

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Could There Be an Alternative Method of Media Literacy in Promoting Health in Children and Adolescents?

Handbook of Research on Representing Health and Medicine in Modern Media - Advances in Linguistics and Communication Studies ◽

10.4018/978-1-7998-6825-5.ch013 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 191-199

Author(s):

Funda Aslan

Keyword(s):

Health Promotion ◽

Health Behaviors ◽

Children And Adolescents ◽

Media Literacy ◽

Educational Methods ◽

Alternative Method ◽

The Media

It is stated that the media is the most influential social tool on creation/shaping of health behaviors of children and adolescents. Most of the individuals that pose into the media tools are misinformed about numerous facts that are either wrong or manipulated about health, and this information adversely affects the health behaviors. In this study, a compilation was conducted with the aim of both raising the awareness of media literacy approach in health promotion concept and emphasizing that the usage of educational methods implemented in the media literacy might also be used by nurses.

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Risky Health Behaviors

Health Psychology ◽

10.4324/9781315512297-5 ◽

2017 ◽

pp. 128-167

Author(s):

Deborah Fish Ragin

Keyword(s):

Health Behaviors ◽

Risky Health Behaviors

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Media Literacy Interventions to Facilitate Positive Body Image and Embodiment

Handbook of Positive Body Image and Embodiment ◽

10.1093/med-psych/9780190841874.003.0035 ◽

2019 ◽

pp. 374-384

Author(s):

Simon Wilksch

Keyword(s):

Body Image ◽

Eating Disorder ◽

Media Literacy ◽

Social Power ◽

Developmental Theory ◽

Eating Disorder Risk ◽

Literacy Interventions ◽

Positive Body Image ◽

The Media ◽

Disorder Risk

This chapter explores the media literacy approach to body image and eating disorder risk reduction through a positive body image and embodiment lens. While most media literacy research in the field to date has focused on reducing eating disorder risk factors, available evidence is discussed for how media literacy programs can impact the physical, mental, and social power domains relevant to the developmental theory of embodiment. The media literacy approach appears well suited to investigations of positive body image and embodiment. While media literacy primarily focuses on reducing the perceived importance of appearance and weight, the mechanism by which this is achieved needs further exploration where it is likely that such “positive” features play an important part.

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The Willingness to Change Risky Health Behaviors among Chinese Rural Residents: What We Learned from a Population-Based Esophageal Cancer Cohort Study

PLoS ONE ◽

10.1371/journal.pone.0161999 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 11 (8) ◽

pp. e0161999 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Mengfei Liu ◽

Chanyuan Zhang ◽

Hong Cai ◽

Fangfang Liu ◽

Ying Liu ◽

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Keyword(s):

Esophageal Cancer ◽

Cohort Study ◽

Health Behaviors ◽

Population Based ◽

Rural Residents ◽

Risky Health Behaviors ◽

Willingness To Change

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Is there a relationship between schooling and risky health behaviors in Colombia?

Cuadernos de Economía ◽

10.15446/cuad.econ.v38n77.65556 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 38 (77) ◽

pp. 365-397

Author(s):

Ana María Iregui-Bohórquez ◽

Ligia Alba Melo-Becerra ◽

María Teresa Ramírez-Giraldo

Keyword(s):

Sexual Behavior ◽

Health Behaviors ◽

Sexual Behaviors ◽

Heavy Drinking ◽

National Health Survey ◽

Cultural Factors ◽

Risky Health Behaviors ◽

Unsafe Sexual Behaviors ◽

Social And Cultural Factors ◽

The Relationship

This paper uses the National Health Survey to analyze the relationship between education and risky health behaviors, namely smoking, heavy drinking, obesity, and unsafe sexual behavior, by estimating the education gradient. We also provide evidence on the effect of education, socio-economic and knowledge variables on these health behaviors by gender and area of residence. The results indicate that there is a negative and significant effect of years of schooling on the probability of smoking, whereas the probability of heavy drinking and unsafe sexual behaviors increase with education, highlighting the importance of social and cultural factors.

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