Online Parent Media Literacy Program to Promote Preadolescent Health

摘要 青春期前是一个关键的发展窗口，在此期间，信仰和行为与性别角色有关， 外貌理想、恋爱关系和性行为会影响近端和远端的健康 结果。父母在塑造孩子的信仰和行为方面具有影响力，而优质的父母- 儿童交流可以作为一个保护因素，改善青年的健康结果。然而，家长们 经常很难有效地与孩子就这些话题进行沟通，特别是在 青春期年龄下降的背景。对于青春期前来说，媒体是性别和性社交的媒介， 他们收到的关于外表、性别角色、人际关系和性的信息往往是刻板印象的， 不切实际，也不准确。父母可以减少媒体对孩子的潜在有害影响 通过父母媒体调解和使用媒体识字教育(MLE)的育儿方案 显示出对青年健康结果有利的影响。这个项目的第一个目标是创建地图-吐温，一个网络- 旨在为青春期前儿童的父母提供媒体调解技能、有关 青春期前发展，以及在青春期和青春期高质量亲子沟通中的实践 性发展、性别刻板印象、人际关系和性。计划开发将通过以下方式加强 由家长、青少年前、主要利益攸关方(例如，学校、社区)组成的多样化咨询小组 组织)和专家顾问。这项计划的第二个目标是进行地图可行性研究- 一对不同的亲子对样本(9-12岁的青少年及其父母/监护人； N=300)被随机分配到干预组(接收MAP-Tween)或活动对照 小组(审查关于青春期前发育的医学准确信息的在线PDF)。家长和 Tweens将完成岗位前评估，这将为以下项目的有效性提供初步测试 对结果产生积极影响。据推测，这一计划将加强父母媒体的调解和 亲子沟通的频率和质量，进而对青春期前的健康产生积极影响 结果。该项目改变了预防模式，将重点放在性和性功能障碍的早期前驱因素上 关系健康和性暴力，填补了针对儿童父母的循证计划的空白 帮助他们与孩子就这些重要的问题进行高质量的沟通 主题。Map-Tween将是唯一一个基于证据的父母项目，明确解决了 关于青春期前健康的媒体。该程序使用高度交互的基于Web的功能，允许 定制的用户体验，包括让家长能够选择特定的节目内容并将其发布到 计划的一部分，让他们的孩子访问和制定定制的家庭媒体计划。这个项目 将评估MAP-Tween的初步有效性和可行性，并确定未来是否会有更大规模的 有必要对调解人和主持人的分析进行研究，并进行长期跟踪。

Abstract Preadolescence is a critical window of development during which beliefs and behaviors related to gender roles, appearance ideals, romantic relationships, and sex are adopted, impacting proximal and distal health outcomes. Parents are influential in shaping their children’s beliefs and behaviors, and high-quality parent- child communication can serve as a protective factor to improve youth health outcomes. However, parents often struggle with effectively communicating with their children about these topics, especially within the context of the declining age of puberty. For preadolescents, media are gender and sexual socializing agents, and the messages they receive about appearance, gender roles, relationships, and sex are often stereotypical, unrealistic, and inaccurate. Parents can attenuate the potentially harmful impact of media on their children through parental media mediation, and parenting programs using media literacy education (MLE) have been shown to favorably impact youth health outcomes. The first aim of this project is to create MAP-Tween, a web- based program designed to provide parents of preadolescents with media mediation skills, knowledge about preadolescent development, and practice in high-quality parent-child communication about puberty and sexual development, gender stereotypes, relationships, and sex. Program development will be enhanced by a diverse advisory panel of parents, preadolescents, key stakeholders (e.g., schools, community-based organizations), and expert consultants. The second aim of this project is to conduct a feasibility study of MAP- Tween in which a diverse sample of parent-child pairs (preadolescents ages 9-12 and their parent/guardian; N=300) are randomly assigned to either the intervention group (receive MAP-Tween) or an active control group (review online PDFs of medically accurate information on preadolescent development). Parents and tweens will complete pre-post assessments, which will provide a preliminary test of program effectiveness for positively affecting outcomes. It is hypothesized that this program will enhance parental media mediation and parent-child communication frequency and quality, and in turn, positively impact preadolescent health-related outcomes. This project shifts the prevention paradigm to focus on the early antecedents of sexual and relationship health and sexual violence and fills a gap in evidence-based programs for parents of preadolescents to help them engage in high-quality communication with their child about these important topics. MAP-Tween will be the only evidence-based parent program that explicitly addresses the influence of media on preadolescent health. The program uses highly interactive web-based functionality that allows for a customized user experience including the ability for parents to select specific program content and “post” it to a section of the program for their children to access and develop a customized family media plan. This project would evaluate preliminary effectiveness and feasibility of MAP-Tween and determine if a future larger-scale study with mediator and moderator analyses and longer-term follow-ups is warranted.