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Medical-student-delivered Smoking Prevention Program for Secondary Schools: The Education Against Tobacco Randomized Trial
Conditions
Interventions
Trial Snapshot
- Phase
- Not Applicable
- Sponsor
- University of Giessen
- Enrollment
- 20,000
- Locations
- 1
- Primary Endpoint
- Smoking prevalence measured via questionnaire.
Study Overview
Brief Summary
A two armed randomized trial is evaluating the effect of the medical-student-delivered school-based intervention Education Against Tobacco on the smoking behavior of adolescents in 7th grade of secondary school. The primary endpoint is the change in smoking prevalence between the two groups.
Study Design
- Study Type
- Interventional
- Allocation
- Randomized
- Intervention Model
- Parallel
- Primary Purpose
- Prevention
- Masking
- None
Eligibility Criteria
- Sex
- All
- Accepts Healthy Volunteers
- Yes
Inclusion Criteria
- •Pupils of 7th grade of regular secondary schools in Germany
Exclusion Criteria
- •Not fulfilling the inclusion criteria
Arms & Interventions
Intervention group
Experimental
The intervention group receives two school-based modules taking less than two hours each delivered by medical students in the schools.
Intervention: Education Against Tobacco intervention (Behavioral)
Control group
No Intervention
Outcomes
Primary Outcomes
Smoking prevalence measured via questionnaire.
Time Frame: 24 months post baseline
The difference in smoking prevalence at 24 months follow-up is the primary endpoint measured via questionnaires.
Secondary Outcomes
- Changes in smoking behavior(24 months post baseline)
- Relevant differences due to the theory of planned behaviour between the two groups measured via questionnaire.(24 months follow-up)
Investigators
Titus J. Brinker
cand. med.
University of Giessen
Study Sites (1)
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