Evaluation of a Program to Reduce Smoking in High School Students

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• Conditions: Smoking in Adolescents
• Interventions: Behavioral: Health education in the high school

• Registration Number: NCT01048489
• Lead Sponsor: Fundacio d'Investigacio en Atencio Primaria Jordi Gol i Gurina

Brief Summary

Effectiveness of health education regarding the smoking habit is under discussion . Nevertheless, according to the literature, some personal, familiar, cultural, and social factors are considered risk factors for students to become smokers. Probably, a health education intervention integrated in the school program will show a higher rate of effectiveness regarding incidence and prevalence of smoking habit in this age-group .

OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the effectiveness of a health education program to reduce the smoking habit in students.

METHODOLOGY: Quasi-experimental design including all the junior high school students in an educational district in Tarragona (Spain). The sampled schools will be randomised into two groups (experimental and control). All the included students will be monitored for three years.

The health education program will be divided in three interventions: role games and debates (1st year), workshops regarding the family and the social role of smoking (2nd year) , and the analysis of smoking advertising (3rd year). The incidence and prevalence rates will be compared on the experimental and control group, before de beginning of the intervention and at the beginning of each year.

Detailed Description

Not available

Study Timeline

• Study Start: 2008-01
• Primary Completion: 2008-07
• Status Verified: 2009-12
• Study First Submitted: 2010-01-12
• Study First Submitted QC: 2010-01-12
• Last Update Submitted: 2010-01-12
• Study First Posted: 2010-01-13
• Last Update Posted: 2010-01-13
• Study Completion: 2010-07

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: UNKNOWN
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 2256

Inclusion Criteria

• Students in high school
• Male and female
• Ages 12 to 16 years old

Exclusion Criteria

• No Spanish speakers

Study & Design

• Study Type: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Design: PARALLEL

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
Lifestyle counseling	Health education in the high school	-

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Prevalence and incidence of smoking is measured annually at the beginning and end of each school year by the use of a validated questionnaire and by the monitoring of carbon monoxide in expired air	January 2007 at June 2010

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

Institut Català de la Salut; 🇪🇸 Tarragona, Spain