Trial reportBMC public health2014
Effectiveness of a complex intervention in reducing the prevalence of smoking among adolescents: study design of a cluster-randomized controlled trial.
Trial report in BMC public health, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to 2 registered trials, which are not on this map. Cited by 6 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Effectiveness of a Complex Intervention on Reducing the Prevalence of Smoking Among Adolescents: a Cluster Randomized Control Trial
Development and Assessment of a Teacher-led Intervention in Preventing Tobacco Use Among Junior High Students in the Upper East Region of Ghana: A Cluster Randomized Controlled Trial
Who cites it
6 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 13 citations in OpenAlex.
- Strategies for enhancing the implementation of school-based policies or practices targeting risk factors for chronic disease.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2017Pooled it
- Implications of personality and parental education on healthy lifestyles among adolescents.Scientific reports · 2020Article
- Cybervictimization among secondary students: social networking time, personality traits and parental education.BMC public health · 2019Article
- Alcohol and Tobacco Consumption, Personality, and Cybervictimization among Adolescents.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2019Article
- The associations of personality traits and parental education with smoking behaviour among adolescents.PloS one · 2017Article
- Smoking cessation in school children in the Federation of bosnia and herzegovina.Materia socio-medica · 2014Article
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Authors and funding
6 authors at 4 institutions in 1 country.
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Abstract
backgroundThe likelihood of an adolescent taking up smoking may be influenced by his or her society, school and family. Thus, changes in the immediate environment may alter a young person's perception of smoking. METHODS/
designThe proposed multi-center, cluster-randomized controlled trial will be stratified by the baseline prevalence of smoking in schools. Municipalities with fewer than 100,000 inhabitants will be randomly assigned to a control or intervention group. One secondary school will be randomly selected from each municipality. These schools will be randomized to two groups: the students of one will receive any existing educational course regarding smoking, while those of the other school will receive a four-year, class-based curriculum intervention (22 classroom lessons) aimed at reinforcing a smoke-free school policy and encouraging smoking cessation in parents, pupils, and teachers. The intervention will also include annual meetings with parents and efforts to empower adolescents to change the smoking-related attitudes and behaviors in their homes, classrooms and communities.We will enroll children aged 12-13 years as they enter secondary school during two consecutive school years (to obtain sufficient enrolled subjects). We will follow them for five years, until two years after they leave secondary school. All external evaluators and analysts will be blinded to school allocation.The aim of this study is to analyze the effectiveness of a complex intervention in reducing the prevalence of smoking in the third year of compulsory secondary education (ESO) and two years after secondary school, when the participants are 14-15 and 17-18 years old, respectively. DISCUSSION: Most interventions aimed at preventing smoking among adolescents yield little to no positive long-term effects. This clinical trial will analyze the effectiveness of a complex intervention aimed at reducing the incidence and prevalence of smoking in this vulnerable age group.
trial registrationCurrent Controlled Trials: NCT01602796.
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