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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Feb 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Sch Health. 2014 Feb;84(2):106–115. doi: 10.1111/josh.12130

Table 4.

Comparison of Outcomes in the Intervention and Control Arms

Outcome Intervention (N = 410) Control (N = 386) p-Value* p-Value

T1 T2 δ d§ T1 T2 δ d§
Total Smoking Media Literacy (SML)|| 1.84 2.08 0.24 0.46 1.87 1.95 0.08 0.16 <.001 .001
 SML Subscale 1 2.04 2.29 0.25 0.35 2.10 2.10 0.00 0.01 <.001 .001
 SML Subscale 2 1.70 1.97 0.27 0.52 1.72 1.83 0.11 0.21 <.001 <.001
 SML Subscale 3 2.00 2.15 0.15 0.24 2.03 2.10 0.07 0.10 .16 .26

Total General Media Literacy (ML)|| 2.04 2.12 0.08 0.16 2.09 2.07 −0.02 0.04 .01 .06
 ML Subscale 1 1.87 2.04 0.17 0.24 1.93 1.93 0.00 0.01 .002 .01
 ML Subscale 2 2.08 2.14 0.06 0.10 2.15 2.11 −0.04 0.08 .03 .12
 ML Subscale 3 2.06 2.14 0.08 0.12 2.10 2.11 0.01 0.01 .19 .34

Total Cigarette Attitudes|| 0.58 0.80 0.22 0.41 0.58 0.78 0.20 0.38 .70 .69

Total perceived success of smokers|| 0.92 0.96 0.04 0.05 0.87 0.93 0.06 0.08 .61 .82

Total perceived prevalence (%) 64.0 50.0 −14.0 0.76 63.1 58.5 −4.60 0.25 <.001 <.001
*

t-tests comparing differences between intervention and control outcomes.

Controlling for clustering and age, gender, race, maternal education, grades, parenting style, sensation seeking, and rebelliousness.

Differences between follow-up and baseline.

§

Cohen’s d, a measure of effect size.

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Media literacy (smoking-specific and general, as well as all subscales), attitudes, and the first normative beliefs scale (“perceived success of smokers”) were scaled to continuous figures with a minimum of 0 and a maximum of 3.

The second normative beliefs scale (“perceived prevalence”) utilized figures between 0 and 100 representing the average perceived prevalence for smoking.