Effects of a Televised Two-city Safer Sex Mass Media Campaign Targeting High-sensation-seeking and Impulsive-decision-making Young Adults

Overview

Journal Health Educ Behav

Publisher Sage Publications

Specialties Medical Education
Public Health
Social Sciences

Date 2007 Jul 3

PMID 17602097

Citations 33

Authors

Rick S Zimmerman

Philip M Palmgreen

Seth M Noar

Mia Liza A Lustria

Hung-Yi Lu

Mary Lee Horosewski

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Abstract

This study evaluates the ability of a safer sex televised public service announcement (PSA) campaign to increase safer sexual behavior among at-risk young adults. Independent, monthly random samples of 100 individuals were surveyed in each city for 21 months as part of an interrupted-time-series design with a control community. The 3-month high-audience-saturation campaign took place in Lexington, KY, with Knoxville, TN, as a comparison city. Messages were especially designed and selected for the target audience (those above the median on a composite sensation-seeking/impulsive-decision-making scale). Data indicate high campaign exposure among the target audience, with 85%-96% reporting viewing one or more PSAs. Analyses indicate significant 5-month increases in condom use, condom-use self-efficacy, and behavioral intentions among the target group in the campaign city with no changes in the comparison city. The results suggest that a carefully targeted, intensive mass media campaign using televised PSAs can change safer sexual behaviors.

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