Trial reportJournal of community health2019
Effectiveness of a School Based Smokeless Tobacco Intervention: A Cluster Randomized Trial.
Trial report in Journal of community health, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT03418506 (Knowledge and Awareness Regarding Association of Arecanut/Betel Quid and With Oral Cancer and Other Serious Illnesses Among Children 11-16 Years; A Cluster Randomized Intervention Study), which is not on this map. Cited by 5 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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Knowledge and Awareness Regarding Association of Arecanut/Betel Quid and With Oral Cancer and Other Serious Illnesses Among Children 11-16 Years; A Cluster Randomized Intervention Study
Who cites it
5 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Strategies for enhancing the implementation of school-based policies or practices targeting diet, physical activity, obesity, tobacco or alcohol use.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2022Pooled it
- Interventions for tobacco cessation delivered by dental professionals.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2021Pooled it
- Proportions and trends of global adolescent knowledge and attitudes toward tobacco smoking from 1999 to 2019.Frontiers in public health · 2025Article
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- A qualitative study of gutka and paan masala use among Bhutanese and Burmese migrants in Georgia.PloS one · 2020Article
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7 authors.
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Abstract
To assess the effectiveness of intervention in improving knowledge, attitude and perception regarding smokeless tobacco (SLT) use and its harmful effects and intention to quit SLT among school going adolescents. A school-based cluster randomized control trial was carried out in 18 secondary schools targeting male and female students from grades 6 to 10 in Karachi. Primary outcome was knowledge about hazards of smokeless tobacco (SLT) and secondary outcomes were attitude and Perception about hazards of SLT, and intention to quit SLT. We enrolled 738 participants in intervention group and 589 in the control group. Mean score of knowledge significantly improved in intervention as compared to control group (P value < 0.01). Intention to quit was found to be proportionately higher (33%) in the intervention group as compared to control group. Generalized estimating equations were used to assess the association of factors with knowledge regarding harmful effects of SLT use. Significant predictors of increase in knowledge score were found in children: who had seen any anti SLT messages on social media in the past 30 days, who were getting information regarding harmful effects of SLT use in school or textbooks and who had friends using SLT. A school-based intervention was effective in increasing knowledge regarding the harmful effects of SLT use and intention to quit SLT use among school adolescents. Introduction of such educational programmes on a regular basis in schools or as part of school curriculum can have an impact on reducing prevalence of SLT use.Trial Registration NCT03418506. https://register.clinicaltrials.gov/NCT03418506 .
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