Education Against Tobacco Randomized Trial in Bosnia and Herzegovina

University of Giessen

Status: Unknown

Conditions: Tobacco Prevention; Schools; Tobacco

Treatments: Behavioral: Education Against Tobacco School-Based Intervention

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02731547

RCTBosnia

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 7-11th grade of secondary schools in Bosnia and Herzegovina. The primary endpoint is the change in smoking prevalence between the two groups.

Enrollment: 1,500 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 10 to 20 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

Visiting grades 7-9 of regular secondary schools in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Exclusion criteria

Not fulfilling inclusion criteria.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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1,500 participants in 2 patient groups

Intervention group

Experimental group

Description:

The intervention group receives a school-based module taking about two hours delivered by medical students in the schools.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Education Against Tobacco School-Based Intervention

Control group

No Intervention group