The Impact of a Tobacco Control Intervention in African-American Families

Augusta University688 enrolled

Overview

The purpose of this randomized control trial is to evaluate the effects of a multi-component intervention aimed at: 1. preventing tobacco initiation in youth 2. promoting anti-tobacco socialization in the home 3. decreasing environmental tobacco smoke exposure in children 4. promoting successful cessation in parent/guardian smokers. Control arm participants receive general health education. This family-based approach is implemented with school systems as the primary point of entry.

All research participants (children and parents/guardians) will be recruited from 14 schools (7 control and 7 intervention; 7 urban and 7 rural) in a Southeastern U.S. Self-report measures are at: baseline, end of year one, year 2, end of year two, and years three and four. Biological measures of salivary cotinine are at Baseline, end of treatment (year 2) and end of study (year 4).

Study Type

INTERVENTIONAL

Allocation

RANDOMIZED

Purpose

PREVENTION

Masking

NONE

Enrollment

688

Conditions

Tobacco Prevention Environmental Tobacco Smoke Exposure Tobacco Cessation

Interventions

LifeSkills TrainingBEHAVIORAL

LifeSkills Training (Botvin's) is an evidenced based substance abuse prevention program for elementary school students to learn skills to resist tobacco, alcohol, drug abuse, and violence. Parent LifeSkills will also be utilized. Parents are provided a parent manual and DVD to use at home with their child to reinforce what they are taught in school-based LifeSkills sessions.

Healthy Lifestyle Behavior ChoicesBEHAVIORAL

The healthy lifestyle behavior choices curriculum augments the state health curriculum in the assigned study schools. Parents will also be given health related information by mail to parallel the information students receive in school health classes.

NRT and Motivational Interviewing (MI)BEHAVIORAL

Eligibility

Sex: ALLMin age: 8 YearsHealthy volunteers:

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Inclusion Criteria: * child being of African-American ethnicity * in a 4th grade classroom of randomized schools * parent or guardian that 4th grade child resides with at least 50% of the time * have access to a telephone or mobile phone Exclusion Criteria: * not being a child of African-American ethnicity * not being a parent or guardian that an eligible child lives with at least 50% of the time * not having access to a telephone or cell phone

Locations (1)

Georgia Health Sciences University

Augusta, Georgia, United States

Outcomes

Primary Outcomes

Primary prevention of tobacco use in youth

Self-report and salivary cotinine is assessed to measure this outcome

Time frame: Baseline

Primary prevention of tobacco use in youth

Self-report and salivary cotinine is assessed to measure this outcome.

Time frame: Year 2

Primary prevention of tobacco use in youth

Self-report and salivary cotinine is assessed to measure this outcome.

Time frame: Year 4