SynthesisThe Cochrane database of systematic reviews2003
Community interventions for preventing smoking in young people.
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24 citing papers in PubMed, 4 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Community interventions for preventing smoking in young people.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2011Pooled it
- Interventions for promoting smoking cessation during pregnancy.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2009Pooled it
- Population tobacco control interventions and their effects on social inequalities in smoking: placing an equity lens on existing systematic reviews.BMC public health · 2008Pooled it
- Community interventions for reducing smoking among adults.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2002Pooled it
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- An informal school-based peer-led intervention for smoking prevention in adolescence (ASSIST): a cluster randomised trial.Lancet (London, England) · 2008Trial
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- Tobacco-Free Duo Adult-Child Contract for Prevention of Tobacco Use Among Adolescents and Parents: Protocol for a Mixed-Design Evaluation.JMIR research protocols · 2020Article
- Comparing effects of tobacco use prevention modalities: need for complex system models.Tobacco induced diseases · 2013Article
- Tobacco advertising and press coverage of smoking and health in 10 years of Argentinean newspapers.CVD prevention and control · 2011Article
- The Role of the Self in Smoking Initiation and Smoking Cessation: A Review and Blueprint for Research at the Intersection of Social-Cognition and Health.Self and identity : the journal of the International Society for Self and Identity · 2011Article
- Trends in smoking and quitting in China from 1993 to 2003: National Health Service Survey data.Bulletin of the World Health Organization · 2010Article
- The effectiveness of interventions to change six health behaviours: a review of reviews.BMC public health · 2010Review
- Recruiting participants for interventions to prevent the onset of depressive disorders: possible ways to increase participation rates.BMC health services research · 2010Article
- Stacked Deck: an effective, school-based program for the prevention of problem gambling.The journal of primary prevention · 2010Article
- How confident should we be that smoking cessation treatments work?Addiction (Abingdon, England) · 2009Review
- Evolving prosocial and sustainable neighborhoods and communities.Annual review of clinical psychology · 2009Review
- Decrease in the prevalence of smoking among Japanese adolescents and its possible causes: periodic nationwide cross-sectional surveys.Environmental health and preventive medicine · 2008Article
- Correlates of smoking initiation among young adults in Ukraine: a cross-sectional study.BMC public health · 2007Article
- Tobacco control funding versus scientific evidence.American journal of preventive medicine · 2007Article
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Abstract
backgroundDecisions to smoke are made within a broad social context. Community interventions use co-ordinated, widespread, multi-component programmes to try and influence behaviour.
objectivesTo determine the effectiveness of community interventions in preventing the uptake of smoking in young people. SEARCH STRATEGY: The Tobacco Addiction group specialised register, Medline and other health, psychology and public policy electronic databases were searched, the bibliographies of identified studies were checked and contact was made with content area specialists. Searches were updated in September 2002. SELECTION CRITERIA: Randomised and non randomised controlled trials that assessed the effectiveness of multi-component community interventions compared to no intervention or to single component or school-based programmes only. Reported outcomes had to include smoking behaviour in young people under the age of 25 years. DATA COLLECTION AND ANALYSIS: Information relating to the characteristics and the content of community interventions, participants, outcomes and methods of the study was extracted by one reviewer and checked by a second. Studies were combined using qualitative narrative synthesis. MAIN
resultsSeventeen studies were included in the review, 46 studies did not meet all of the inclusion criteria. All studies used a controlled trial design, with six using random allocation of schools or communities. Of thirteen studies which compared community interventions to no intervention controls, two, which were part of cardiovascular disease prevention programmes, reported lower smoking prevalence. Of three studies comparing community interventions to school-based programmes only, one found differences in reported smoking prevalence. One study reported a lower rate of increase in prevalence in a community receiving a multi-component intervention compared to a community exposed to a mass media campaign alone. One study reported a significant difference in smoking prevalence between a group receiving a media, school and homework intervention compared to a group receiving the media component only. REVIEWER'S
conclusionsThere is some limited support for the effectiveness of community interventions in helping prevent the uptake of smoking in young people.
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