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Evaluation of a Three‐Year Urban Elementary School Tobacco Prevention Program
Author(s) -
Price James H.,
Beach Patricia,
Everett Sherry,
Telljohann Susan K.,
Lewis Laurentz
Publication year - 1998
Publication title -
journal of school health
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.851
H-Index - 86
eISSN - 1746-1561
pISSN - 0022-4391
DOI - 10.1111/j.1746-1561.1998.tb03483.x
Subject(s) - curriculum , intervention (counseling) , health education , psychology , medicine , smoking prevention , medical education , family medicine , pedagogy , public health , nursing , psychiatry
The longitudinal study compared effects of varying amounts of tobacco instruction (one, two, and three years) on the knowledge, attitudes, and behavioral intentions of urban elementary students. A three‐year, fourth‐through‐sixth grade tobacco prevention curriculum was developed based on the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Guidelines for School Health Programs to Prevent Tobacco Use and Addiction. The curriculum comprised five, 45‐minute lessons per year. The same trained instructor taught the curriculum all three years. Six intervention schools were taught the curriculum, and two control schools were not. A 49‐item questionnaire was used to assess tobacco knowledge, attitudes, and behavioral intentions. The experimental group's posttest knowledge and attitude scores were significantly higher than the control group's posttest scores. No significant differences occurred in posttest behavioral intention scores between the control and intervention groups.