Evaluation of The Stanford Tobacco Prevention Toolkit
Study Details
Study Description
Brief Summary
The Stanford Tobacco Prevention Toolkit is a free online curriculum developed for use by educators and health professionals in providing tobacco-specific prevention education to middle and high school students. The aims of this study are to determine: (1) whether the Curriculum is effective in changing middle and high school students' resistance to using tobacco as well as knowledge of, attitudes towards, and intentions to use different tobacco products; and (2) whether the Curriculum is effective in changing middle and high school students' actual use of tobacco in the short-term.
Condition or Disease | Intervention/Treatment | Phase |
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N/A |
Study Design
Arms and Interventions
Arm | Intervention/Treatment |
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Experimental: Receives Stanford tobacco education curriculum Stanford Tobacco Prevention Toolkit is administered. |
Behavioral: Stanford Tobacco Prevention Toolkit curriculum
Stanford Toolkit curriculum delivered as a 5-session course in a school classroom setting.
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No Intervention: Does not receive Stanford tobacco education curriculum Receives another curriculum or no tobacco education. |
Outcome Measures
Primary Outcome Measures
- Change in resistance to use of tobacco products scaled score as measured by investigator-originated survey [Change from baseline to follow-up at approximately 40 weeks post-baseline]
This survey measures change in resistance to use of tobacco products with questions related to the participant's intention to use tobacco.
Secondary Outcome Measures
- Change in skills for refusal of tobacco products scaled score as measured by investigator-originated survey [Change from baseline to follow-up at approximately 40 weeks post-baseline]
This survey measures change in skills to refuse tobacco use with questions related to the participant's susceptibility to tobacco use, self-efficacy and self-confidence.
- Change in knowledge of tobacco products scaled score as measured by investigator-originated survey [Change from baseline to follow-up at approximately 40 weeks post-baseline]
This survey measures knowledge of tobacco products with questions related to the participant's knowledge of ingredients, of nicotine levels, of potential health outcomes.
- This survey measures use of tobacco products with questions related to the participant's ever tobacco use, past 30-day tobacco use, and past 7-day tobacco use. [Change from baseline to follow-up at approximately 40 weeks post-baseline]
Investigator-originated survey survey measures (questions) assess ever tobacco use, past 30-day tobacco use, past 7-day tobacco use This outcome measure assesses tobacco products use.
Eligibility Criteria
Criteria
Inclusion Criteria:
- Middle school and high school students
Exclusion Criteria:
- Non English-speakers
Contacts and Locations
Locations
Site | City | State | Country | Postal Code | |
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1 | Stanford University | Palo Alto | California | United States | 94304 |
Sponsors and Collaborators
- Stanford University
- Tobacco Related Disease Research Program
Investigators
- Principal Investigator: Bonnie L Halpern-Felsher, Stanford School of Medicine, Department of Pediatrics
- Principal Investigator: Michael Baiocchi, Stanford School of Medicine, Department of Epidemiology and Population Health
Study Documents (Full-Text)
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Additional Information:
Publications
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