Effectiveness of a school nurse-delivered smoking-cessation intervention for adolescents.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To evaluate the effectiveness of a school nurse-delivered smoking-cessation intervention in increasing abstinence among adolescent smokers.

Methods

Thirty-five high schools were pair-matched and randomly assigned to 1 of 2 conditions, each of which consisted of 4 visits with the school nurse: (1) counseling intervention using the 5 A's model and cognitive-behavioral techniques; or (2) an information-attention control condition. Adolescents (n = 1068) who reported past 30-day smoking and interest in quitting completed surveys at baseline and at 3 and 12 months and provided saliva samples for biochemical validation of reported smoking abstinence.

Results

Intervention condition participants were almost twice as likely to be abstinent per self-report at 3 months

SUBMITTER: Pbert L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3208959 | biostudies-literature | 2011 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature