Evaluation of a Program to Reduce Smoking in High School Students

NCT ID: NCT01048489

Last Updated: 2010-01-13

Basic Information

• Recruitment Status: UNKNOWN
• Clinical Phase: NA
• Total Enrollment: 2256 participants
• Study Classification: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Start Date: 2008-01-31
• Study Completion Date: 2010-07-31

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.

Conditions

Smoking in Adolescents

Study Design

• Allocation Method: RANDOMIZED
• Intervention Model: PARALLEL
• Primary Study Purpose: PREVENTION
• Blinding Strategy: NONE

Study Groups

Lifestyle counseling

Group Type: OTHER

Health education in the high school

Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL

(12- 13 years old): 1.Questionnaire and measuring of carbon monoxide in air. 2.Role Games.3.Build a machine that simulates a cigarette.

(13-14 years old):1.Questionnaire and measuring of carbon monoxide in air.2. Workshop dealing with current television series broadcast in Spain in which tobacco is constantly present.3.Workshop dedicated to make young people and their families stop smoking.A competition is performed between all the schools in order to reward the bookmark with the best motto asking any close person to stop smoking or thanking them for having quit.

(14-15 years old):1.Questionnaire and measuring of carbon monoxide in air. 2. Workshop to go into depth about tobacco effects,by searching in the internet, aiming for the creation of an anti-tobacco pressure group in social networks such like Facebook.3.Workshop to create an advertising campaign to encourage non-consumption by mobile messages,use of internet..coinciding with the international day without tobacco.

No counseling

Group Type: NO_INTERVENTION

No interventions assigned to this group

Interventions

Health education in the high school

(12- 13 years old): 1.Questionnaire and measuring of carbon monoxide in air. 2.Role Games.3.Build a machine that simulates a cigarette.

(13-14 years old):1.Questionnaire and measuring of carbon monoxide in air.2. Workshop dealing with current television series broadcast in Spain in which tobacco is constantly present.3.Workshop dedicated to make young people and their families stop smoking.A competition is performed between all the schools in order to reward the bookmark with the best motto asking any close person to stop smoking or thanking them for having quit.

(14-15 years old):1.Questionnaire and measuring of carbon monoxide in air. 2. Workshop to go into depth about tobacco effects,by searching in the internet, aiming for the creation of an anti-tobacco pressure group in social networks such like Facebook.3.Workshop to create an advertising campaign to encourage non-consumption by mobile messages,use of internet..coinciding with the international day without tobacco.

Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion Criteria

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

Exclusion Criteria

• No Spanish speakers

• Minimum Eligible Age: 12 Years
• Maximum Eligible Age: 16 Years
• Eligible Sex: ALL
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: Yes

Sponsors

Instituto de Salud Carlos III

OTHER_GOV

Sponsor Role: collaborator

Institut Catala de Salut

OTHER_GOV

Sponsor Role: collaborator

Fundacio d'Investigacio en Atencio Primaria Jordi Gol i Gurina

OTHER

Sponsor Role: lead

Responsible Party

Institut Catala de Salut

Principal Investigators

Empar Valdivieso, RN, MSN

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Fundacio d'Investigacio en Atencio Primaria Jordi Gol i Gurina

Locations

Institut Català de la Salut

Tarragona, Tarragona, Spain

Countries

Spain

References

Valdivieso López A, Ledo Garcia J, Barrera Uriarte M, Rivera Bosch G, Fuentes Bellido CM. Muniain Diaz de Cerio MP. Efectividad de un programa comunitario integrado en la escuela para reducir la incidencia de tabaquismo entre los escolares de ESO. Nure Investigación 2005;14. available at: http://www.fuden.es/proyectos_detalle.cfm?ID_INV_NURE=37&FilaInicio=21

Reference Type: BACKGROUND

Other Identifiers

PI070937

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id