Evaluation of an Australian Alcohol Media Literacy Program

Gordon, Chloe S.; Howard, Steven J.; Jones, Sandra C.; Kervin, Lisa

doi:10.15288/jsad.2016.77.950

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“…A more recent pilot study aimed to strengthen logical reasoning among 9–12 year-olds using a media literacy program in Australia. Results suggest that the program led to increases in media deconstruction skills, and as a result, decreased social norms of teen drinking and dampened positive alcohol expectancies [84]. Moreover, it appears that certain personality factors are important to consider when creating a media literacy program.…”

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The Myriad Influences of Alcohol Advertising on Adolescent Drinking

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Purpose of Review This review investigates effects of alcohol advertising on adolescent drinking. Prior reviews focused on behavioral outcomes and long-term effects. In contrast, the present review focuses on subgroups with greater exposure to alcohol advertising, research methods to study alcohol advertising, potential mechanisms underlying relationships between adolescent exposure to alcohol advertising and increased drinking and points to prevention/intervention strategies that may reduce effects of alcohol advertising. Recent Findings Alcohol advertising influences current and future drinking. Further, evidence suggests adolescents may be targeted specifically. Alcohol advertisements may influence behavior by shifting alcohol expectancies, norms regarding alcohol use, and positive attitudes. Media literacy programs may be an effective intervention strategy. Summary Adolescents are exposed to large quantities of alcohol advertisements, which violates guidelines set by the alcohol industry. However, media literacy programs may be a promising strategy for adolescents to increase critical thinking and create more realistic expectations regarding alcohol.

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“…The 26 articles included in this review have undergone an evolutionary concept analysis of alcohol health literacy, which is shown in Table 2. In this article, we have adopted the term "alcohol health literacy" but the review shows that the term "alcohol literacy" is often used as a surrogate term (DeBenedittis, 2011;Fried & Dunn, 2012;Pati et al, 2018; Rundle-Thiele, Simieniako, Kubacki, & Deshpande, 2013) and similar terms adopted include "health literacy" (Anderson & Rehm, 2016;Barnard et al, 2014;Chisholm, Manganello, Kelleher, & Marshal, 2014) and "media literacy" (Chen, 2013;Dumbili & Henderson, 2017;Gordon, Howard, Jones, & Kervin, 2016;Radanielina Hita, Kareklas, & Pinkleton, 2018). The detailed concept analysis as shown in Figure 3 revealed a concept with many different attributes; the implications of those practice interventions are illustrated in Table 3.…”

Section: Mapping the Results: The Concept Of Alcohol Health Literacymentioning

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“…Many of those who have studied alcohol health literacy have done so in the context of media literacy, and specifically in the broader framework of media education, where it is understood as applying critical thinking skills to alcohol marketing and media messages and developing the ability to identify alcohol messages, become aware of how those mes-sages may influence behavior, and deconstruct those messages with attention to the techniques used to attract attention (Austin et al, 2016;Banerjee et al, 2013;Berey, Loparco, Leeman, & Grube, 2017;Bohman et al, 2004;Chang et al, 2016;Chen, 2013;Dumbili & Henderson, 2017;Fried & Dunn, 2012;Gordon et al, 2016;Hall, Lindsay, & West, 2011;Kheokao, Kirkgulthorn, Yingrengreung, & Singhprapai, 2013;Radanielina Hita et al, 2018). Common to the Australian media literacy program (Gordon et al, 2016) and the U.S.-based program ALC (DeBenedittis, 2011) is the aim of demonstrating to young people how marketing is designed to produce positive beliefs about the benefits of drinking associated with sociability, independence, masculinity, and attractiveness. The Austr.…”

Section: Mapping the Results: The Concept Of Alcohol Health Literacymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…AL. aims to enable children and young people to resist advertising (Gordon et al, 2016), whereas the ALC is an elementary, middle, and high school manual and curriculum designed to reduce young people's attraction to alcohol and their expectancy of positive outcomes from drinking (DeBenedittis, 2011).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Other attributes identified as being central to alcohol health literacy include self-efficacy and an ability to manage drinking situations (Gordon et al, 2016;Ratzan, 2016), and using information to inform decision-making (Anderson & Rehm, 2016;Radanielina Hita et al, 2018;Ratzan, 2016; Rundle-Thiele et al, 2013). The ECALC (Fried & Dunn, 2012) is a program that aims to change alcohol expectancy and challenge beliefs about the rewards of drinking.…”

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Shaping Alcohol Health Literacy: A Systematic Concept Analysis and Review

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Rowlands²,

Sykes³

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HLRP: Health Literacy Research and Practice

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Background: This study uses an innovative methodology to understand the implications of applying the emerging concept of health literacy to other contexts using the example of alcohol. Methods: An evolutionary concept analysis combined with the principles and standards of the systematic review process enables a rigorous analysis of the conceptual representation of alcohol health literacy. Key Results: Alcohol health literacy includes a wide range of attributes that encompass many different health literacies beyond simply the capacity to understand alcohol-related harms and use that information in decision-making. Alcohol health literacy empowers people to understand alcohol marketing and messages and how alcohol information is distributed through social networks. It is an outcome of media-related alcohol education, and its consequences include health action skills and realistic expectancies of alcohol. Discussion: The focus on health literacy, which emphasizes not only individual skills but also draws attention to the social determinants of alcohol use and how alcohol health literacy is shaped by social networks and interactions, provides important lessons for alcohol health promotion interventions. Health literacy when applied to alcohol includes many different domains and the innovative method used here provides a framework to develop interventions that build health literacy in different contexts. [HLRP: Health Literacy Research and Practice. 2020;4(1):e3-e20.] Health literacy has emerged as a key field of activity in health promotion and is a central pillar in the World Health Organization Shanghai statement (WHO, 2017). It states that both health and literacy are critical resources for everyday living and that health literacy directly affects people's ability to not only act on health information but also to take more control of their health as individuals, families, and communities and change those factors that constitute their health chances, such as access to healthy food, opportunities for physical activities, and active and informed involvement in health policy discussion (Nutbeam, 2000). There has been a huge rise in interest in the concept of health literacy. In 2012, there were 17 definitions of health literacy and 12 conceptual models (Sørensen et al., 2012), but by 2016 a review found over 250 definitions (Malloy-Weir, Charles, Gafni, & Entwistle, 2016). One current widely accepted definition describes health literacy as "the motivation, knowledge and competencies to access, understand, appraise

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A systematic review of children's alcohol-related knowledge, attitudes and expectancies

Jones

Gordon

2017

Preventive Medicine

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Understanding the nature of, and transitions in, young children's alcohol-related knowledge and attitudes is important to determining the age at which we should start educating children about alcohol and informing our understanding of the focus of such education. This paper aimed to explore current literature on the alcohol-related knowledge, beliefs, attitudes and expectancies of children aged 12years and under. Electronic databases were searched for papers published from January 2000-August 2016. Further papers were identified by a manual review of reference lists, and contacting corresponding authors of included papers. Papers that reported on children's knowledge or beliefs about alcohol, attitudes towards alcohol and/or expectancies regarding alcohol consumption were included. Seventeen cross-sectional, experimental or observational studies and seven longitudinal studies met the inclusion criteria. Data on key measures was tabulated. From a very young age children are aware of and able to identify alcohol, and have some knowledge of its effects; their attitudes become more positive with increasing age and these shifts appear to precede drinking initiation by some years. The small number of available studies, with different measures of knowledge, attitudes and expectancies, made assessment of bias unfeasible. Only three studies were published in the last five years. Children's knowledge of, and attitudes towards, alcohol form before they initiate alcohol use, and are likely acquired through observation. Alcohol-related education should commence before children begin drinking, and should encourage the delay of alcohol initiation, address social norms, and reduce positive expectancies.

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Evaluation of an Australian Alcohol Media Literacy Program

Cited by 12 publications

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The Myriad Influences of Alcohol Advertising on Adolescent Drinking

The Myriad Influences of Alcohol Advertising on Adolescent Drinking

Shaping Alcohol Health Literacy: A Systematic Concept Analysis and Review

A systematic review of children's alcohol-related knowledge, attitudes and expectancies

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