Education Against Tobacco Randomized Trial in Brazil

University of Giessen

Status: Unknown

Conditions: Tobacco Prevention

Treatments: Behavioral: Education Against Tobacco school-based intervention by medical students

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02725021

EATBrazil

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 school. The primary endpoint is the change in smoking prevalence between the two groups.

Enrollment: 1,500 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 5 to 25 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Visiting grades 7-11 of a regular public secondary school in Brazil.

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 by medical students

Control group

No Intervention group