Ensuring that a school-based smoking cessation program for adolescents is successful: A realist evaluation of the TABADO program and the program theory.

ABSTRACT:

Background

A smoking cessation program for adolescents, TABADO, demonstrated its effectiveness following a controlled trial conducted in 2007/2009. The program is now being scaled up nationally. In order to retain its efficacy across the diversity of contexts in the generalization process, we needed to assess the processes and mechanisms that inform its effects. Theory-driven evaluation is one approach used to address these issues. The aim of the present research is to develop the TABADO program theory. More specifically, we attempt to identify the factors and mechanisms that promote or hinder the enrollment and retention of student smokers in the program.

Methods

We conducted a realist evaluation of the TABADO program through 1) a documentary analysis to construct the initi

SUBMITTER: Vallata A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10079096 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature