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Education Against Tobacco (EAT): a quasi-experimental prospective evaluation of a multinational medical-student-delivered smoking prevention programme for secondary schools in Germany

OBJECTIVES: To evaluate the multinational medical-student-delivered tobacco prevention programme for secondary schools for its effectiveness to reduce the smoking prevalence among adolescents aged 11–15 years in Germany at half year follow-up. SETTING: We used a prospective quasi-experimental study...

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Autores principales: Brinker, Titus J, Stamm-Balderjahn, Sabine, Seeger, Werner, Klingelhöfer, Doris, Groneberg, David A
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4577951/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26384722
http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2015-008093
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author Brinker, Titus J
Stamm-Balderjahn, Sabine
Seeger, Werner
Klingelhöfer, Doris
Groneberg, David A
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Groneberg, David A
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description OBJECTIVES: To evaluate the multinational medical-student-delivered tobacco prevention programme for secondary schools for its effectiveness to reduce the smoking prevalence among adolescents aged 11–15 years in Germany at half year follow-up. SETTING: We used a prospective quasi-experimental study design with measurements at baseline (t1) and 6 months postintervention (t2) to investigate an intervention in 8 German secondary schools. The participants were split into intervention and control classes in the same schools and grades. PARTICIPANTS: A total of 1474 eligible participants of both genders at the age of 11–15 years were involved within the survey for baseline assessment of which 1200 completed the questionnaire at 6-month follow-up (=longitudinal sample). The schools participated voluntarily. The inclusion criteria were age (10–15 years), grade (6–8) and school type (regular secondary schools). INTERVENTION: Two 60 min school-based modules delivered by medical students. PRIMARY AND SECONDARY OUTCOME MEASURES: The primary end point was the difference from t1 to t2 of the smoking prevalence in the control group versus the difference from t1 to t2 in the intervention group (difference of differences approach). The percentage of former smokers and new smokers in the two groups were studied as secondary outcome measures. RESULTS: In the control group, the percentage of students who claimed to be smokers doubled from 4.2% (t1) to 8.1% (t2), whereas it remained almost the same in the intervention group (7.1% (t1) to 7.4% (t2); p=0.01). The likelihood of quitting smoking was almost six times higher in the intervention group (total of 67 smokers at t1; 27 (4.6%) and 7 (1.1%) in the control group; OR 5.63; 95% CI 2.01 to 15.79; p<0.01). However, no primary preventive effect was found. CONCLUSIONS: We report a significant secondary preventive (smoking cessation) effect at 6-month follow-up. Long-term evaluation is planned.
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spelling pubmed-45779512015-10-02 Education Against Tobacco (EAT): a quasi-experimental prospective evaluation of a multinational medical-student-delivered smoking prevention programme for secondary schools in Germany Brinker, Titus J Stamm-Balderjahn, Sabine Seeger, Werner Klingelhöfer, Doris Groneberg, David A BMJ Open Smoking and Tobacco OBJECTIVES: To evaluate the multinational medical-student-delivered tobacco prevention programme for secondary schools for its effectiveness to reduce the smoking prevalence among adolescents aged 11–15 years in Germany at half year follow-up. SETTING: We used a prospective quasi-experimental study design with measurements at baseline (t1) and 6 months postintervention (t2) to investigate an intervention in 8 German secondary schools. The participants were split into intervention and control classes in the same schools and grades. PARTICIPANTS: A total of 1474 eligible participants of both genders at the age of 11–15 years were involved within the survey for baseline assessment of which 1200 completed the questionnaire at 6-month follow-up (=longitudinal sample). The schools participated voluntarily. The inclusion criteria were age (10–15 years), grade (6–8) and school type (regular secondary schools). INTERVENTION: Two 60 min school-based modules delivered by medical students. PRIMARY AND SECONDARY OUTCOME MEASURES: The primary end point was the difference from t1 to t2 of the smoking prevalence in the control group versus the difference from t1 to t2 in the intervention group (difference of differences approach). The percentage of former smokers and new smokers in the two groups were studied as secondary outcome measures. RESULTS: In the control group, the percentage of students who claimed to be smokers doubled from 4.2% (t1) to 8.1% (t2), whereas it remained almost the same in the intervention group (7.1% (t1) to 7.4% (t2); p=0.01). The likelihood of quitting smoking was almost six times higher in the intervention group (total of 67 smokers at t1; 27 (4.6%) and 7 (1.1%) in the control group; OR 5.63; 95% CI 2.01 to 15.79; p<0.01). However, no primary preventive effect was found. CONCLUSIONS: We report a significant secondary preventive (smoking cessation) effect at 6-month follow-up. Long-term evaluation is planned. BMJ Publishing Group 2015-09-16 /pmc/articles/PMC4577951/ /pubmed/26384722 http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2015-008093 Text en Published by the BMJ Publishing Group Limited. For permission to use (where not already granted under a licence) please go to http://group.bmj.com/group/rights-licensing/permissions This is an Open Access article distributed in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC BY-NC 4.0) license, which permits others to distribute, remix, adapt, build upon this work non-commercially, and license their derivative works on different terms, provided the original work is properly cited and the use is non-commercial. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/
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Brinker, Titus J
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Seeger, Werner
Klingelhöfer, Doris
Groneberg, David A
Education Against Tobacco (EAT): a quasi-experimental prospective evaluation of a multinational medical-student-delivered smoking prevention programme for secondary schools in Germany
title Education Against Tobacco (EAT): a quasi-experimental prospective evaluation of a multinational medical-student-delivered smoking prevention programme for secondary schools in Germany
title_full Education Against Tobacco (EAT): a quasi-experimental prospective evaluation of a multinational medical-student-delivered smoking prevention programme for secondary schools in Germany
title_fullStr Education Against Tobacco (EAT): a quasi-experimental prospective evaluation of a multinational medical-student-delivered smoking prevention programme for secondary schools in Germany
title_full_unstemmed Education Against Tobacco (EAT): a quasi-experimental prospective evaluation of a multinational medical-student-delivered smoking prevention programme for secondary schools in Germany
title_short Education Against Tobacco (EAT): a quasi-experimental prospective evaluation of a multinational medical-student-delivered smoking prevention programme for secondary schools in Germany
title_sort education against tobacco (eat): a quasi-experimental prospective evaluation of a multinational medical-student-delivered smoking prevention programme for secondary schools in germany
topic Smoking and Tobacco
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4577951/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26384722
http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2015-008093
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