The prevention of cigarette smoking in children: two- and three-year follow-up comparisons of four prevention strategies.
Recent studies have suggested that a prevention program that addresses the social influences that encourage smoking can be effective in deterring cigarette use by adolescents. This study presents 1-, 2-, and 3-year follow-up results from two studies which evaluated three variations of the social influences curriculum and compared them to a health consequences program and a usual-care comparison group. These results suggest that a peer-led, social influences program can restrain smoking among both baseline nonsmokers and baseline experimental smokers at 2 years postintervention. Analyses of attrition data suggest no evidence to threaten the internal validity of these findings, although their generalizability to baseline smokers may be limited.
Murray
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DM
Division of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis 55455.
Richards
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Luepker
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Johnson
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D000293:Adolescent; D001294:Attitude to Health; D002648:Child; D005260:Female; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006266:Health Education / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010379:Peer Group; D012307:Risk Factors; D012907:Smoking / Q000523:psychology; D000074606:Smoking Prevention