Five- and six-year follow-up results from four seventh-grade smoking prevention strategies.
Seven thousand one hundred twenty-four members of the Classes of 1985 and 1986 who had participated as seventh graders in one of several smoking prevention programs were tracked and surveyed for smoking habits at 5- and 6-year follow-up: participation exceeded 90% in both cohorts. These data indicated that participants who received seventh-grade interventions based on the social influences model had similar smoking patterns compared to participants in other conditions. This finding supports the call for booster sessions after the initial seventh-grade intervention program. Future follow-up studies will assess whether the earlier benefits associated with the social influences model will translate into measurable differences in adult smoking patterns.
Murray
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Division of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis 55455.
Pirie
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Leupker
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Pallonen
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D000293:Adolescent; D001521:Behavior Therapy / Q000379:methods*; D002648:Child; D015331:Cohort Studies; D003430:Cross-Sectional Studies; D005260:Female; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006266:Health Education / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D012907:Smoking / Q000453:epidemiology; D000074606:Smoking Prevention