Project ASPIRE: an Interactive, Multimedia Smoking Prevention and Cessation curriculum for culturally diverse high school students.
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.
Prokhorov
Alexander V
AV
The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas 77230-1439, USA. aprokhor@mdanderson.org
Kelder
Steven H
SH
Shegog
Ross
R
Conroy
Jennifer L
JL
Murray
Nancy
N
Peters
Ronald
R
Cinciripini
Paul M
PM
De Moor
Carl
C
Hudmon
Karen S
KS
Ford
Kentya H
KH
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