A Medical Student-Delivered Smoking Prevention Program, Education Against Tobacco, for Secondary Schools in Brazil: Study Protocol for a Randomized Trial.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Smoking is the largest preventable cause of morbidity and mortality in Brazil. Education Against Tobacco (EAT) is a large network of medical students in 13 countries who volunteer for school-based prevention in the classroom setting. A recent quasi-experimental EAT study conducted in Germany showed significant short-term smoking cessation effects on 11- to 15-year-old adolescents.

Objective

The aim of this study is both to describe and to provide the first randomized long-term evaluation of the EAT intervention involving a photoaging app for its effectiveness to reduce the smoking prevalence among 12- to 17-year-old pupils in Brazilian public schools.

Methods

A randomized controlled trial will be conducted among approximately 1500 adolescents aged 12 to 17

SUBMITTER: Xavier LE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5306613 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature