Process and Effect Evaluation of the KickAsh! Intervention

University Ghent

Status: Active, not recruiting

Conditions: Smoking Cigarette; Smoking Prevention; Smoking Tobacco; Smoking

Treatments: Behavioral: KickAsh! intervention

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05920772

ONZ-2023-0366

Details and patient eligibility

About

The goal of this evaluation study is to evaluate the KickAsh! intervention, an intervention aiming to prevent smoking initiation in adolescents living in vulnerable socioeconomic situations. This intervention will be implemented in youth social work organisation that offer sport and/or recreational activities for these adolescents. Youth workers will act as implementers of the intervention.

The main aim of this study is to evaluate the effect of the intervention, whether it does or does not produce change in the smoking initiation behaviour of adolescents (= effect evaluation). Secondly, the study aims to evaluate the implementation process to generate more understanding concerning why the intervention does or does not produces change. Therefore, it will be investigated how the intervention was implemented, what exactly was implemented, in which context the intervention was implemented... (= process evaluation)

For the effect evaluation adolescents will be asked to fill in a questionaire at three time points. For the process evaluations interviews and focus groups will be organised with the adolescents and youth workers respectively.

Two groups will participate to this study: one group existing of organisations where the intervention will be implemented (=intervention group), and one group where the intervention will not be implemented (= control group).

Enrollment: 720 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 10 to 15 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Aged between 10 and 15 years old
• Participate in activities offered by a youth social work organisation during the implementation period
• Have sufficient understanding of the Dutch language

Exclusion criteria

• Not participating in a youth social work organisation

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Non-Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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720 participants in 2 patient groups

Intervention group

Experimental group

Description:

A smoking initiation prevention intervention (called KickAsh! intervention) will be implemented in 12 youth social work organisations offering sport and/or recreational activities, during a period of three months (October 2023 to December 2023).Youth workers will act as implementers of the intervention. Approximately 5 youth workers per organisation will participate in the study. Adolescents participating in the youth social work organisations will receive the intervention. Approximately 25 adolescents per organisation will participate in the study.

Treatment:

Behavioral: KickAsh! intervention

Control group

No Intervention group

Description:

12 other youth social work organisations offering sport and/or recreational activities will be allocated to the control group. This group will not receive the KickAsh! intervention. Approximately 5 youth workers per organisation will participate in the study. Approximately 25 adolescents per organisation will participate in the study.