Fabio Lucidi|Luca Mallia|Fabio Alivernini|Andrea Chirico|Sara Manganelli|Federica Galli|Valeria Biasi|Arnaldo Zelli
The Effectiveness of a New School-Based Media Literacy Intervention on Adolescents’ Doping Attitudes and Supplements Use
Sapienza University of Rome|Foro Italico University of Rome|Italian National Agency for the Evaluation of Universities and Research Institutes|Sapienza University of Rome|Italian National Agency for the Evaluation of Universities and Research Institutes|Sapienza University of Rome|Roma Tre University|Foro Italico University of Rome
aim study evaluate effectiveness media literacy intervention targeting first time specific topic performance appearance enhancing substances paess use highschool students overall 389 students 52 male aged 13 19 years mean 1656 year sd 126 participated media literacy intervention ie intervention group 103 students aged 14 19 year mean 1610 year sd 138 considered control group ie control group two separate occasions course six consecutive months students groups filled set questionnaires included measures socialcognitive beliefs ie attitudes subjective norms intentions selfreported measure retrospective use doping yesno supplements yesno compared students control group mean time1 196 sd time1 085 mean time2 209 sd time2 094 intervention students average expressed relatively stronger attitudes doping use time mean time1 22 sd time1 085 mean time2 205 sd time2 082 students latter group also showed statistically significant decrease selfreported supplement use use time1 67 use time2 38 p 005 mcnemar test interestingly albeit marginally significant students control group showed relative increment selfreported use supplements time use time1 49 use time2 87 p 022 mcnemar test overall media literacy intervention investigated present study effective decreasing adolescent students positive attitudes toward doping use reducing use legal paes findings supported generalizability usefulness media literacy approach specific field paes