[Educating adolescents about the influence of the media via the French program « Service sanitaire »].

Introduction: Gathered within the context of the French “Service Sanitaire des Etudiants en Santé” (SSES), the leaders of a local prevention project and the coordinators of the said device have joined forces to propose a course dedicated to media education. Sharing their target population: middle school students, the aim was to put health students in a position to disseminate prevention interventions integrating the potential influence of digital media, in the region’s middle schools.

Objective: The present study proposes to evaluate the integration of this media education module into the local SSES.

Health Promotion in Popular Web-Based Community Games Among Young People: Proposals, Recommendations, and Applications.

Background: Young people use digital technology on a daily basis and enjoy web-based games that promote social interactions among peers. These interactions in web-based communities can develop social knowledge and life skills. Intervening via existing web-based community games represents an innovative opportunity for health promotion interventions.

A Smoking Prevention Intervention Among Young People in an Online Community Game: Results from a Pilot Randomized Controlled Trial.

Innovative methods for smoking prevention interventions need to be investigated to increase attractiveness, access hard-to-reach populations, and increase effectiveness. We studied the feasibility and immediate effects of an intervention to reinforce norms and behaviors of young people related to antismoking, integrated into a popular online community game. A pilot randomized controlled trial was conducted through the HABBO online community.

Suggestibility, Facebook use and relationship with substance addictive behaviors.

Objective: Several health issues related to the us of social networking sites (SNS) are documented. One concept that is not clearly studied is suggestibility as the tendency of a person to accept and internalize communication. The aim of the study is to test a model in which suggestibility of people can predict SNS use, which in turn can predict substance use.