Association of various components of media literacy and adolescent smoking.
OBJECTIVE
To determine which specific aspects of media literacy were most strongly associated with smoking outcomes.


METHODS
Students at a public high school responded to cross-sectional survey items measuring smoking outcomes, components of media literacy, and other variables.


RESULTS
Of the 1211 participants, 19% were current smokers (N = 216) and 40% of the nonsmokers (N = 342) were susceptible to smoking. In the adjusted models, current smoking was most strongly related to representation-reality domain items, but susceptibility to smoking was associated with each of the media literacy domains.


CONCLUSIONS
Varied relationships exist between individual facets of media literacy and smoking outcomes.
Department of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh School fo Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA. bprimack@pitt.edu
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D000293:Adolescent; D000294:Adolescent Behavior; D032882:Comprehension; D003430:Cross-Sectional Studies; D005260:Female; D006266:Health Education / Q000379:methods*; D006293:Health Promotion; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008402:Mass Media; D012907:Smoking / Q000523:psychology*; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires