ARTICLE Measuring Media Use in College Students With and Without Human Immunodeficiency Virus Infection Ann-Margaret Dunn-Navarra, PhD, CPNP-BC, Sima S. Toussi, MD, Elizabeth Cohn, DNSc, RN, Natalie Neu, MD, MPH, & Elaine L. Larson, PhD, RN, FAAN, CIC ABSTRACT Introduction: Media applications have shown promise for health education. The aims of this study were to develop and evaluate a media survey measure and compare media use among college students with and without human immu- nodeficiency virus (HIV) infection. Methods: Using a cross-sectional, descriptive design, a conve- nience sample of college students (N = 53) were recruited. Psychometric testing of the media instrument was per- formed, and the tool was then used to compare media use among HIV-infected undergraduates (n = 15), other under- graduates (n = 23), and nursing students (n = 15). Results: Psychometric testing of the media instrument demon- strated a high degree of reliability (intraclass correlation = .998; 95% confidence intervals = .997, .999). All respondents had computers with Internet access and cellular phones. Among HIV-infected undergraduate students, 86.7% reported spending 5 minutes or more viewing television during the pre- vious 24 hours outside of school and or work, in comparison with 34.8% of the other undergraduate students with no known chronic illness and 46.7% of the nursing students (p = .002 and .05, respectively). Preferred modes to access health information and communicate with health care pro- viders for all respondents were the Internet (86.8%) and tele- phone (62.3%), respectively. Discussion: Assessment of media use among adolescents and young adults will aid in planning for their health education needs. J Pediatr Health Care. (2013) -, ---. KEY WORDS Media activites, media ownership, college-age, media use survey, chronic illness, HIV Ann-Margaret Dunn-Navarra, Fellow, Training in Interdisciplinary Research to Prevent Infections, Columbia University School of Nursing, New York, NY. Sima S. Toussi, Assistant Professor, Division of Pediatric Infectious Diseases, Weil Cornell Medical College, New York, NY. Elizabeth Cohn, Assistant Professor of Nursing, Columbia University School of Nursing, New York, NY. Natalie Neu, Associate Clinical Professor of Pediatrics, Division of Pediatric Infectious Diseases, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY. Elaine L. Larson, Professor of Pharmaceutical & Therapeutic Research and Associate Dean for Research, Columbia University School of Nursing, New York, NY. Ann-Margaret Dunn-Navarra is currently Assistant Professor and Fellow, New York University College of Nursing, New York, NY. The study was funded in part by an NIH-funded research training grant, ‘‘Training in Interdisciplinary Research to Prevent Infections (TIRI),’’ T32 NR013454, which took place at Columbia University School of Nursing. Conflicts of interest: None to report. Correspondence: Ann-Margaret Dunn-Navarra, PhD, CPNP-BC, New York University College of Nursing, 726 Broadway, 10th Floor, New York, NY 10003; e-mail: amd363@nyu.edu. 0891-5245/$36.00 Copyright Q 2013 by the National Association of Pediatric Nurse Practitioners. Published by Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.pedhc.2013.07.017 www.jpedhc.org -/- 2013 1