In order that students become able to exercise their full rights of citizenship, they need to develop abilities and competencies related to statistical literacy at compulsory school levels. These include being able to read, interpret and criticize media information and take conscious decisions in the face of these readings. In Brazil, in 1998, it was suggested that, in the middle school, the st...

background: mental health literacy is an individual’s knowledge and belief about mental disorders which aid their recognition, management and prevention. the aim of this study was to investigate mental health literacy among students of tehran university of medical sciences.   methods : in this cross-sectional study, data were collected by the anonymous self-administered questionnaires and final...

OBJECTIVES To develop a smoking media literacy (SML) scale by using empiric survey data from a large sample of high school students and to assess reliability and criterion validity of the scale. DESIGN On the basis of an established theoretical framework, 120 potential items were generated, and items were eliminated or altered on the basis of input from experts and students. Cross-sectional r...

OBJECTIVE Family caregivers play a significant role in the diagnosis, treatment, and recovery of individuals with cancer. This position paper reviews and links the research on family caregiving and health information with the importance of cancer literacy. METHOD Review of literature obtained through searching in Academic Search Premier, EBSCO, Communication and Mass Media Complete, PsychArti...

The literature shows curriculum design for critical literacy development is commonly organised on a theme-based principle. This article, in contrast, emerges from experience in an academic preparation program in which the organizing principle for critical reading module design is not theme but text-type, specifically news reports of the ‘hard news’ genre in Australian English-language newspaper...

OBJECTIVE A 10-lesson alcohol media literacy program was developed, underpinned by the message interpretation processing model, inoculation theory, and constructivist learning theory, and was tailored to be culturally relevant to the Australian context. This program aimed to increase students' media deconstruction skills and reduce intent to drink alcohol. The purpose of this study was to evalu...

This study provides an analysis of how the term “media literacy” has been defined by authors articles published in Journal Media Literacy Education. It generates answers to two questions: (1) To what extent does there appear be a shared meaning for across who publish on this topic, and (2) When cite definitions media literacy, which sources do they use most often? The findings content reveal th...