Behavior, Health, Behavior, Smoking
Conditions
Keywords
children, young adults, tobacco, education, health, smoking, prevention
Brief summary
The Stanford Tobacco Prevention Toolkit is a free online curriculum developed for use by educators and health professionals in providing tobacco-specific prevention education to middle and high school students. The aims of this study are to determine: (1) whether the Curriculum is effective in changing middle and high school students' resistance to using tobacco as well as knowledge of, attitudes towards, and intentions to use different tobacco products; and (2) whether the Curriculum is effective in changing middle and high school students' actual use of tobacco in the short-term.
Interventions
BEHAVIORALStanford Tobacco Prevention Toolkit curriculum
Stanford Toolkit curriculum delivered as a 5-session course in a school classroom setting.
Sponsors
Tobacco Related Disease Research Program
Stanford University
Study design
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Intervention model
PARALLEL
Primary purpose
PREVENTION
Masking
NONE
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
ALL
Age
11 Years to 20 Years
Healthy volunteers
Yes
Inclusion criteria
* Middle school and high school students
Exclusion criteria
* Non English-speakers
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Change in resistance to use of tobacco products scaled score as measured by investigator-originated survey | Change from baseline to follow-up at approximately 40 weeks post-baseline | This survey measures change in resistance to use of tobacco products with questions related to the participant's intention to use tobacco. |
Secondary
| Measure | Time frame | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Change in skills for refusal of tobacco products scaled score as measured by investigator-originated survey | Change from baseline to follow-up at approximately 40 weeks post-baseline | This survey measures change in skills to refuse tobacco use with questions related to the participant's susceptibility to tobacco use, self-efficacy and self-confidence. |
| Change in knowledge of tobacco products scaled score as measured by investigator-originated survey | Change from baseline to follow-up at approximately 40 weeks post-baseline | This survey measures knowledge of tobacco products with questions related to the participant's knowledge of ingredients, of nicotine levels, of potential health outcomes. |
| This survey measures use of tobacco products with questions related to the participant's ever tobacco use, past 30-day tobacco use, and past 7-day tobacco use. | Change from baseline to follow-up at approximately 40 weeks post-baseline | Investigator-originated survey survey measures (questions) assess ever tobacco use, past 30-day tobacco use, past 7-day tobacco use This outcome measure assesses tobacco products use. |
Countries
United States
Outcome results
None listed