Trial reportPediatrics2011
Effectiveness of a school nurse-delivered smoking-cessation intervention for adolescents.
Trial report in Pediatrics, 2011. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 17 papers, 3 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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17 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 47 citations in OpenAlex.
- Treatment of Nicotine Use in Adolescents Under 18 Years of Age: An Official American Thoracic Society Clinical Practice Guideline.American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine · 2025Guideline
- Effectiveness of nurse-initiated smoking cessation intervention: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Substance abuse treatment, prevention, and policy · 2025Pooled it
- Tobacco cessation interventions for young people.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2017Pooled it
- Feasibility and Engagement of a Peer-Driven Mobile Intervention for Adolescent E-Cigarette Cessation: Cluster Randomized Pilot Study.JMIR formative research · 2026Trial
- Design and methods for "Commit to Get Fit" - a pilot study of a school-based mindfulness intervention to promote healthy diet and physical activity among adolescents.Contemporary clinical trials · 2015Trial
- Clinician-targeted intervention and patient-reported counseling on physical activity.Preventing chronic disease · 2014Trial
- [School nurses in Germany-pilot projects and consolidation].Bundesgesundheitsblatt, Gesundheitsforschung, Gesundheitsschutz · 2025Review
- Determinants of ever smoking and active smoking among school-aged children in Jeddah.Journal of Taibah University Medical Sciences · 2023Article
- Supporting families of children with overweight and obesity to live healthy lifestyles: Design and rationale for the Fitline cluster randomized controlled pediatric practice-based trial.Contemporary clinical trials · 2021Article
- Potentials of School Nursing for Strengthening the Health Literacy of Children, Parents and Teachers.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2020Article
- Feasibility of a Smartphone App with Mindfulness Training for Adolescent Smoking Cessation: Craving to Quit (C2Q)-Teen.Mindfulness · 2020Article
- Acceptability and stakeholders perspectives on feasibility of using trained psychologists and health workers to deliver school-based sexual and reproductive health services to adolescents in urban Accra, Ghana.Reproductive health · 2018Article
- Pilot Study.The Journal of school nursing : the official publication of the National Association of School Nurses · 2017Article
- Conceptualising a model to guide nursing and midwifery in the community guided by an evidence review.BMC nursing · 2017Article
- Home visiting and perinatal smoking: a mixed-methods exploration of cessation and harm reduction strategies.BMC public health · 2016Article
- Update of Adolescent Smoking Cessation Interventions: 2009-2014.Current addiction reports · 2015Article
- Tobacco smoking status and perception of health among a sample of Jordanian students.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2014Article
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8 authors at 4 institutions in 2 countries.
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Abstract
objectiveTo evaluate the effectiveness of a school nurse-delivered smoking-cessation intervention in increasing abstinence among adolescent smokers.
methodsThirty-five high schools were pair-matched and randomly assigned to 1 of 2 conditions, each of which consisted of 4 visits with the school nurse: (1) counseling intervention using the 5 A's model and cognitive-behavioral techniques; or (2) an information-attention control condition. Adolescents (n = 1068) who reported past 30-day smoking and interest in quitting completed surveys at baseline and at 3 and 12 months and provided saliva samples for biochemical validation of reported smoking abstinence.
resultsIntervention condition participants were almost twice as likely to be abstinent per self-report at 3 months (odds ratio: 1.90 [95% confidence interval: 1.12-3.24]; P = .017) compared with control participants; at 12 months there were no differences. The difference at 3 months was driven by quit rates in male students (15.0% [intervention] vs 4.9% [control]; odds ratio: 3.23 [95% confidence interval: 1.63-6.43]; P = .001); there was no intervention effect in female students at either time point (6.6% vs 7.0% at 3 months and 16.6% vs 15.5% at 12 months) and no intervention effect in male students at 12 months (13.9% vs 13.2%). Smoking amount and frequency decreased significantly in intervention compared with control schools at 3 but not at 12 months.
conclusionsA school nurse-delivered smoking-cessation intervention proved feasible and effective in improving short-term abstinence among adolescent boys and short-term reductions in smoking amount and frequency in both genders. Additional research is needed to enhance both cessation and maintained abstinence.
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