Open AccessHutchinson Smoking Prevention Project: Long-Term Randomized Trial in School-Based Tobacco Use Prevention--Results on Smoking
Author(s) -
Arthur V. Peterson
Publication year - 2000
Publication title -
journal of the national cancer institute
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 5.797
H-Index - 356
eISSN - 1460-2105
pISSN - 0027-8874
DOI - 10.1093/jnci/92.24.1979
Subject(s) - medicine , randomized controlled trial , confidence interval , psychological intervention , smoking prevention , youth smoking , intervention (counseling) , demography , tobacco control , pediatrics , public health , psychiatry , nursing , sociology
No long-term impact has yet been observed with the use of the social-influences approach to school-based smoking prevention for youth. However, whether this lack of impact is due to methodologic problems with the studies or to the failure of the interventions is unclear. The Hutchinson Smoking Prevention Project (HSPP), conducted from September 1984 through August 1999, aimed to attain the most rigorous randomized trial possible to determine the long-term impact of a theory-based, social-influences, grade 3-12 intervention on smoking prevalence among youth.