School-based tobacco prevention program fails.Reports on the failure of school-based tobacco prevention programs in the United States, as studied by the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle, Washington.EBSCO_AspAlcoholism & Drug Abuse Weekly...
Although school-based tobacco use prevention programs have had limited short-term success, questions remain about whether these programs would have the same degree of success with youths at risk for habitual tobacco use. This article describes a rapid project to discriminate these high-risk youghs ...
Each day in India, an estimated 5,500 youth initiate tobacco use, contributing to predictions that by 2020, tobacco will account for 13% of all deaths in India. Project MYTRI (Mobilizing Youth for Tobacco-Related Initiatives in India) is a multi-component school-based intervention designed to...
Children in the ATD program did not differ from those in the HEE program in alcohol, tobacco, or drug use prevalence. However, prevalence rates of use were very low across all schools. Findings can benefit future prevention efforts with young children and suggest that strategies for preventing ...
School-based tobacco prevention programs have had limited success reducing smoking rates in the long term. Media literacy programs offer an innovative vehicle for delivery of potentially more efficacious anti-tobacco education. However, these programs have been neither widely implemented nor well evaluated...
To determine the cost-effectiveness of a school-based tobacco-use prevention program. Using data from the previously reported 2-year efficacy study of the Project Toward No Tobacco Use (TNT), we conducted a decision analysis to determine the cost-effectiveness of TNT. The benefits measured were ...
[Cost-benefit analysis of a school-based smoking prevention program]. From a societal perspective, the benefits of school-based tobacco prevention programs, in terms of healthcare costs and productivity losses avoided, are fa... JH Amaro,A García-Altés,MJ López,... - 《Gaceta Sanitaria》 ...
Bridge-it: a system for predicting implementation fidelity for school-based tobacco prevention programs. Prev Sci. 2006;7(2):197–207. 49. Grønborg L. Fastholdelse igennem idræt og sundhed. In: Jørgensen CH, editor. Frafald i erhvervsuddannelserne. Frederiksberg: Roskilde Universitets...
on Programs (Book). Developing School-Based Tobacco Use Prevention and Cessation Programs (Book).Developing School-Based Tobacco Use Prevention and Cessation Programs (Book).Swadi, Harith
A quasiexperimental study was conducted to explore the efficacy of the program Stay Away from Tobacco (SAFT). Participants-from 11 classes with 381 students total in grades 7, 8, 10, and 11-were assigned by class to three groups (intervention group T with school teachers delivering the progra...