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| Ranking |
Evidence-Based Practice |
| Description |
The goal of Project Students Helping Others Understand Tobacco (SHOUT) is to prevent tobacco use among adolescents.
Undergraduate students were recruited to deliver the curriculum and received about 15 hours of training from SHOUT staff. During 6 sessions in the fall, seventh grade participants watched a videotape on the health consequences of tobacco use, read celebrity endorsements of nonuse and discussed the social consequences of tobacco use. They also became familiar with tobacco products, rehearsed methods of resisting peer pressure, practiced decision making, and performed a skit for their classmates in which they were offered tobacco and refused it. Within four sessions in the spring, seventh grade participants reviewed refusal methods, discussed addiction to tobacco and tobacco cessation, and were given the opportunity to publicly declare themselves tobacco free.
The eighth grade curriculum took place across eight sessions, during which participants engaged in more demonstration and rehearsal of refusal skills, participated in anti-tobacco community action projects, and learned ways to positively encourage parents and others to quit smoking. In the participants’ ninth grade year, SHOUT staff sent five newsletters to all participants and two newsletters to parents. In addition, trained phone counselors called each SHOUT participant twice per semester.
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| Goal / Mission |
The goal of Project Students Helping Others Understand Tobacco (SHOUT) is to use a school-based curriculum to prevent tobacco use among adolescents. |
| Results / Accomplishments |
Both the control and intervention groups were surveyed four times during a baseline survey at the beginning of seventh grade, and then again at the end of grades seven, eight, and nine. At the final follow-up, 19.8% of control students and only 13.2% of intervention students reported smoking in the past month, a difference significant at p<0.05. |
| Categories |
Health / Substance Abuse
Health / Teen & Adolescent Health
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| Organization(s) |
San Diego State University |
| Source |
Urban Institute |
| Date of Publication |
1993 |
| Date of Implementation |
1988 |
| Geographic Type |
Urban |
| Location |
County: San Diego County, CA |
| Primary Contact |
John Elder
Hardy Tower 119
5500 Campanile Dr.
San Diego CA 92182-4162
(619) 594-2997
jelder@mail.sdsu.edu
http://www.urban.org/pdfs/TeenRiskTaking_2.pdf
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| For more details |
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8362998
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| Target Audience |
Teens |
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