Development and Validation of the Adolescent Media Health Literacy Scales: Rasch Measurement Model Approach.

ABSTRACT:

Background

High media use has been implicated in negative social and health outcomes among adolescents. Therefore, it is critical that adolescents develop skills to healthily engage with media content. Media health literacy (MHL), skills for assessing and responding to health-related media content, and potentially targetable moderators for the relationship between media use and health-related outcomes are understudied in adolescents. The lack of MHL assessment tools may have contributed to this research gap.

Objective

This study aimed to develop and validate test-based scales of adolescents' MHL.

Methods

The items developed were vetted iteratively via community reviews and cognitive interviews to establish content and face validity. Adolescents (N=355) completed a que

SUBMITTER: Fleary SA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9055475 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature