Online Parent Media Literacy Program to Promote Preadolescent Health

摘要 青春前期是一个关键的发展窗口，在此期间，与性别角色有关的信念和行为， 外观理想，浪漫关系和性被采纳，影响近端和远端健康 结果。父母在塑造孩子的信仰和行为方面具有影响力，高质量的父母- 儿童沟通可以作为改善青年健康成果的保护因素。但家长 经常与他们的孩子就这些话题进行有效的沟通，特别是在 青春期年龄下降的背景。对于青春期前的青少年，媒体是性别和性社会化的媒介， 他们收到的关于外表、性别角色、关系和性的信息往往是刻板的， 不切实际也不准确父母可以减轻媒体对孩子的潜在有害影响 通过父母媒体调解，以及使用媒体素养教育（MLE）的育儿计划， 对青少年健康产生积极影响。该项目的第一个目标是创建MAP-Tween，一个网络- 为基础的计划，旨在为青少年前的父母提供媒体调解技能，知识， 青春期前的发展，并在高质量的亲子沟通有关青春期和 性发展、性别刻板印象、关系和性。项目开发将通过以下方式得到加强： 由父母、青少年前儿童、主要利益攸关方（例如，学校，社区 （一）专家顾问。该项目的第二个目标是进行MAP的可行性研究， 在吐温中，父母-孩子对（9-12岁的青少年前和他们的父母/监护人; N=300）被随机分配到干预组（接受MAP-吐温）或活性对照组 组（在线查看关于青春期前发育的医学准确信息的PDF）。父母和 青少年将完成事前事后评估，这将为项目的有效性提供初步测试， 积极影响成果。据推测，这一计划将加强家长媒体调解， 亲子沟通的频率和质量，反过来，积极影响青春期前的健康相关 结果。该项目改变了预防模式，将重点放在性行为的早期起因， 关系健康和性暴力，并填补了父母的循证方案的空白， 帮助他们与孩子进行高质量的沟通， 话题MAP-Tween将是唯一一个基于证据的父母计划，明确解决的影响， 关于青春期前健康的媒体。该计划使用高度互动的基于Web的功能，允许 定制的用户体验，包括父母选择特定节目内容并将其“发布”到 该计划的一部分，让他们的孩子访问和制定一个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，并确定未来更大规模的 有必要进行中介人和调节人分析研究，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.