Cultural adaptation of two school-based smoking prevention programs in Bogota, Colombia.

ABSTRACT: Smoking prevention among adolescents is a public health challenge that is even more significant in low- and middle-income countries where local evidence is limited and smoking rates remain high. Evidence-based interventions could be transferred to low- and middle-income country settings but only after appropriate cultural adaptation. This paper aims to describe the process of the cultural adaptation of two school-based smoking prevention interventions, A Stop Smoking in Schools Trial and Dead Cool, to be implemented in Bogotá, Colombia. A recognized heuristic framework guided the cultural adaptation through five stages. We conducted a concurrent nested mixed-methods study consisting of a qualitative descriptive case study and a quantitative pre- and post quasi-experiment without a control.

SUBMITTER: Sanchez-Franco S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8499713 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature