LifeFirst: Impact of a school-based tobacco and supari cessation intervention among adolescent students in Mumbai, India.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

The youth are a vulnerable population-group for tobacco-related harms. Schools are an excellent setting for health promotion; yet there is a dearth of school-based cessation interventions, rarely evaluated for their impact. Here, we assess the impact of the LifeFirst program: an ongoing tobacco and supari (areca nut) cessation intervention delivered to students from corporation schools in Mumbai city.

Methods

We used a prospective quasi-experimental design with an intervention and a control arm embedded within an ongoing LifeFirst program in select schools. We used a difference-in-difference analysis with baseline and end-line surveys to assess the program's impact on students' knowledge about harms, students' refusal skills, and prevalence of tobacco/supari use

SUBMITTER: Bhojani U 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7611376 | biostudies-literature | 2021 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature