The Impact of Implementation Fidelity of a School-Based Multi-Component Smoking Prevention Intervention on Vocational Students' Smoking Behavior: A Cluster-Randomized Controlled Trial.

ABSTRACT: Preventing young people's cigarette smoking is a major public health priority, and smoking is especially prevalent in vocational schools. Well-enforced comprehensive school tobacco policies accompanied by preventive efforts show potential to reduce smoking, but the implementation process is crucial to achieve the intended effect. We investigate whether and how implementation fidelity of a multi-component smoking prevention intervention impacted student smoking outcomes after 4-5 months among students in Danish vocational education and training (national age range 15-65 years, mean 25.6) and preparatory basic education (national age range 15-25 years, mean 17.6) institutions using questionnaire data from a cluster-RCT. The intervention included a smoke-free school hours policy, educational

SUBMITTER: Jensen MP 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11390863 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature