Trial reportAddictive behaviors2015
Are you in or out? Recruitment of adolescent smokers into a behavioral smoking cessation intervention.
Trial report in Addictive behaviors, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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9 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 17 citations in OpenAlex.
- Tobacco cessation interventions for young people.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2017Pooled it
- Feasibility and acceptability of a novel substance use prevention intervention.Pilot and feasibility studies · 2026Article
- Efficacy of a WhatsApp-based program for nicotine and tobacco cessation among young people: study protocol for a randomized controlled trial.BMC public health · 2026Article
- WhatsApp-Based Coaching Program to Support Smoking and Vaping Cessation Among Young People: Pre-Post Study on Acceptance and Preliminary Efficacy.JMIR mHealth and uHealth · 2025Article
- Predictors of Youth Accessibility for a Mobile Phone-Based Life Skills Training Program for Addiction Prevention.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2023Article
- Challenges and perspectives of tobacco cessation in special groups of patients and populations.Breathe (Sheffield, England) · 2023Review
- Participant Recruitment Issues in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Clinical Trials with a Focus on Prevention Programs: A Meta-Analytic Review of the Literature.Journal of clinical medicine · 2023Review
- Inability to Recruit Adolescents for a Vaping Cessation Clinical Trial Within a Large Pediatric Health System.Nicotine & tobacco research : official journal of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco · 2021Article
- A Web-Based Intervention to Increase Smokers' Intentions to Participate in a Cessation Study Offered at the Point of Lung Screening: Factorial Randomized Trial.JMIR formative research · 2021Article
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Abstract
introductionEven though many adolescent smokers want to quit, it is difficult to recruit them into smoking cessation interventions. Little is known about which adolescent smokers are currently reached by these measures. In this study we compare participants of a group-based, cognitive behavioral smoking cessation intervention with adolescent smokers who decided against participating.
methodsWithin a non-randomized controlled trial, data of 1053 smokers (aged 11-19) from 42 German secondary schools were analyzed. Of these smokers, 272 were recruited into 47 courses of the intervention. An in-class information session, individually addressing potential participants, and incentives were used as means of recruitment. Personal predictors of participation were analyzed using regression analyses and multivariate path analyses to test for mediation.
resultsIn the path analysis model, nicotine dependence, quit motivation, and a previous quit attempt were directly positively related to participation. Heavier smoking behavior was indirectly positively associated with participation through nicotine dependence and negatively through quit motivation, yielding an overall positive indirect effect. The positive effect of a previous quit attempt on participation was partially mediated through nicotine dependence and quit motivation. The proportion of smoking friends were indirectly positively related to participation, mediated through nicotine dependence.
conclusionsSince adolescents with heavier smoking behavior and stronger nicotine dependence are less likely to undertake a successful unassisted quit attempt, the reach of these young smokers with professional cessation interventions is desirable. Further measures to improve the recruitment of those currently not motivated to quit have to be examined in future studies.
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