Open AccessAn informal school-based, peer-led intervention for prevention of tobacco consumption in adolescence: A cluster randomized trial in rural Gandhinagar
Author(s) -
Anjali Mall,
Aroor Bhagyalaxmi
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
indian journal of community medicine/indian journal of community medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.375
H-Index - 32
eISSN - 1998-3581
pISSN - 0970-0218
DOI - 10.4103/ijcm.ijcm_25_16
Subject(s) - smokeless tobacco , medicine , intervention (counseling) , psychological intervention , randomized controlled trial , tobacco control , consumption (sociology) , cluster (spacecraft) , peer education , environmental health , public health , tobacco use , health education , population , nursing , surgery , social science , sociology , computer science , programming language
Tobacco use among adolescence is one of the important preventable causes of death as well as a leading public health problem all over the world. The present study was conducted with the objective of studying the effect of peer-led interventions on tobacco use among adolescents.