Evaluation of a Program to Reduce Smoking in High School Students (TAB_es)

Effectiveness of a Community Integrated Program to Reduce Smoking Incidence in High School Students

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.

Study Overview

• Status: Unknown
• Conditions: Smoking in Adolescents
• Intervention / Treatment: Behavioral: Health education in the high school

• Study Type: Interventional
• Enrollment (Actual): 2256
• Phase: Not Applicable

Contacts and Locations

Study Locations

• Spain
  • Tarragona, Spain, 43001
    • Institut Català de la Salut

Participation Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

• Ages Eligible for Study: 12 years to 16 years (Child)
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: Yes
• Genders Eligible for Study: All

Description

Inclusion Criteria:

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

Exclusion Criteria:

• No Spanish speakers

Study Plan

How is the study designed?

Design Details

• Primary Purpose: Prevention
• Allocation: Randomized
• Interventional Model: Parallel Assignment
• Masking: None (Open Label)

Number of Arms

2

Arms and Interventions

Participant Group / Arm	Intervention / Treatment
Other: Lifestyle counseling	Behavioral: 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.
No Intervention: No counseling

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Time Frame
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

Collaborators and Investigators

• Sponsor: Fundacio d'Investigacio en Atencio Primaria Jordi Gol i Gurina
• Collaborators: Instituto de Salud Carlos III; Institut Catala de Salut
• Investigators: Principal Investigator: Empar Valdivieso, RN, MSN, Fundacio d'Investigacio en Atencio Primaria Jordi Gol i Gurina

Publications and helpful links

General Publications

• 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

Study record dates

Study Major Dates

• Study Start: January 1, 2008
• Primary Completion (Actual): July 1, 2008
• Study Completion (Anticipated): July 1, 2010

Study Registration Dates

• First Submitted: January 12, 2010
• First Submitted That Met QC Criteria: January 12, 2010
• First Posted (Estimate): January 13, 2010

Study Record Updates

• Last Update Posted (Estimate): January 13, 2010
• Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria: January 12, 2010
• Last Verified: December 1, 2009

More Information

Terms related to this study

• Other Study ID Numbers: PI070937