Education Against Tobacco Randomized Trial

University of Giessen

Status: Unknown

Conditions: Adolescents; Prevention; Schools; Tobacco

Treatments: Behavioral: Education Against Tobacco intervention

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02697409

EATRCT

Details and patient eligibility

About

A two armed randomized trial is evaluating the effect of the medical-student-delivered school-based intervention Education Against Tobacco on the smoking behavior of adolescents in 7th grade of secondary school. The primary endpoint is the change in smoking prevalence between the two groups.

Enrollment: 20,000 estimated patients

Sex: All

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Pupils of 7th grade of regular secondary schools in Germany

Exclusion criteria

• Not fulfilling the inclusion criteria

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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20,000 participants in 2 patient groups

Intervention group

Experimental group

Description:

The intervention group receives two school-based modules taking less than two hours each delivered by medical students in the schools.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Education Against Tobacco intervention

Control group

No Intervention group