Evaluation of Adolescent Smoking Cessation Programs

Johns Hopkins University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Smoking Status

Treatments: Behavioral: NOT program; Behavioral: Kicking Butts intervention; Behavioral: NOT controls; Behavioral: KB controls

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT00714207

H.32.01.12.04.A1

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this study was to determine if a school-based multi-session group smoking cessation program is more effective than a single session group program.

Full description

The investigators reformatted two group smoking cessation programs (the NOT program of the American Lung Association and Kicking Butts), both of which involve 50 minute sessions delivered once weekly, into a program that could be delivered during school lunch periods (25-30 minutes) twice weekly. Smoking status was subsequently assessed over the 12 month period following the intervention,

Enrollment: 407 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 13 to 17 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Students who indicated they smoked cigarettes and wanted to quit

Exclusion criteria

• Students referred as part of a disciplinary requirement to stop smoking

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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407 participants in 4 patient groups

NOT Intervention

Experimental group

Description:

Students in this arm of the study were randomized to receive the reformatted NOT program

Treatment:

Behavioral: NOT program

NOT controls

Active Comparator group

Description:

Students in this arm were randomized to receive a single group session on smoking cessation and were given youth oriented informational pamphlets on smoking cessation

Treatment:

Behavioral: NOT controls

KB intervention

Experimental group

Description:

Students in this arm of the study were randomized to receive the reformatted Kicking Butts intervention

Treatment:

Behavioral: Kicking Butts intervention

KB controls

Active Comparator group

Description:

Students in this arm were randomized to receive a single group session on smoking cessation and were given youth oriented informational pamphlets on smoking cessation

Treatment:

Behavioral: KB controls