title: Adolescent smoking cessation: development of a school nurse intervention.
abstract: The purpose of this study was to examine the feasibility of a range of strategies to engage and to enhance secondary school nurse involvement in teenage smoking prevention and cessation. School nurses were willing to assist students to quit smoking, but they felt unprepared. Information provided by nurses involved in a three-stage review, pilot-testing, and trial design resulted in the development of a resource for nurses. This resource comprised individual student approaches (brief intervention based on motivational interviewing and written activities designed to help students examine their smoking behavior), approaches to assist parents (letter of support for parents of students who smoke), and school newsletter items. Each component of the resource was found by school nurses to be appropriate, useful, and complementary to their other school- wide approaches to assist adolescents to quit smoking. Nurses also reported an interest to expand or to enhance their smoking cessation role in the school.
authors.affiliation: Department of Public Health and General Practice, Christchurch School of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of Otago, New Zealand.
authors.forename: Greg
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Hamilton
authors.forename: Meghan
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: O'Connell
authors.forename: Donna
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Cross
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000294:Adolescent Behavior / Q000523:psychology; D001291:Attitude of Health Personnel; D001294:Attitude to Health; D005240:Feasibility Studies; D007722:Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice; D006801:Humans; D007407:Interviews as Topic / Q000379:methods; D009042:Motivation; D020380:Needs Assessment; D024802:Nurse's Role; D015403:Nursing Evaluation Research; D009740:Nursing Staff / Q000193:education / Q000523:psychology; D010353:Patient Education as Topic; D016730:Program Development / Q000379:methods; D015397:Program Evaluation; D000297:Psychology, Adolescent; D012573:School Nursing / Q000193:education / Q000458:organization & administration*; D012648:Self Care / Q000379:methods / Q000523:psychology; D016540:Smoking Cessation / Q000379:methods / Q000523:psychology; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires