Bihar School Teachers Study (BSTS)

President and Fellows of Harvard College

Status: Completed

Conditions: Tobacco Use Cessation

Treatments: Behavioral: Tobacco Free Teachers, Tobacco Free Society (TFT/TFS)

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01722747

R01CA120958

Details and patient eligibility

About

BRIEF SUMMARY: This study, which is closed to enrollment, is testing the efficacy of a tobacco-control intervention geared towards school teachers in Bihar, India. This cluster randomized trial aims to promote tobacco use cessation among teachers and increase tobacco policy adoption in 72 Bihar schools. Teachers are the focus of the study because as role models for youth and key opinion leaders related to community norms, they represent an important group for tobacco control. Teachers in Bihar also have reported high rates of tobacco use. According to the Global School Personnel Survey conducted in 2006, 39% of teachers in the eastern region of India (which includes Bihar) use some form of tobacco, compared to the national average of 29%. This study aims to reduce these numbers through discussion groups with teachers, individual cessation counseling, educational materials, and a tobacco policy workgroup in each intervention school. This study is a collaboration between US researchers and researchers at the Healis-Sekhsaria Institute for Public Health, Mumbai India.

Enrollment: 945 patients

Sex: All

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Government schools including grades 8-10 from within 10 school districts

Exclusion criteria

• Schools with fewer than 8 teachers
• Schools located in flood zones

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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945 participants in 2 patient groups

Intervention Condition

Experimental group

Description:

Tobacco Free Teachers, Tobacco Free Society (TFT/TFS)

Treatment:

Behavioral: Tobacco Free Teachers, Tobacco Free Society (TFT/TFS)

Delayed Intervention Control condition

No Intervention group

Description:

Receives abbreviated 3-month delayed intervention after final data collection time point