title: Project ASPIRE: an Interactive, Multimedia Smoking Prevention and Cessation curriculum for culturally diverse high school students.
abstract: A Smoking Prevention Interactive Experience (ASPIRE) is an innovative, computer-based smoking prevention and cessation intervention delivered to a culturally diverse population of high school students. Founded in the Transtheoretical Model of Change, five main and two "booster" sessions comprise the interactive intervention. Here we describe the intervention and the baseline characteristics from our study sample of 1,574 10th graders from 16 high schools in Houston, Texas. Environmental and behavioral smoking risk factors were assessed, and the two intervention groups were comparable with respect to most measured variables. The intervention program holds considerable promise in its ability to reduce smoking among teens.
authors.affiliation: The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas 77230-1439, USA. aprokhor@mdanderson.org
authors.forename: Alexander V
authors.initials: AV
authors.lastname: Prokhorov
authors.forename: Steven H
authors.initials: SH
authors.lastname: Kelder
authors.forename: Ross
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Shegog
authors.forename: Jennifer L
authors.initials: JL
authors.lastname: Conroy
authors.forename: Nancy
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Murray
authors.forename: Ronald
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Peters
authors.forename: Paul M
authors.initials: PM
authors.lastname: Cinciripini
authors.forename: Carl
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: De Moor
authors.forename: Karen S
authors.initials: KS
authors.lastname: Hudmon
authors.forename: Kentya H
authors.initials: KH
authors.lastname: Ford
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D001296:Audiovisual Aids; D016251:CD-ROM; D054521:Cultural Competency; D005260:Female; D006293:Health Promotion; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D016730:Program Development; D016540:Smoking Cessation / Q000379:methods*; D000074606:Smoking Prevention; D013781:Texas; D014584:User-Computer Interface