Before February 2018 the baseline survey is conducted in about 60 class in Brazilian secondary schools. These classes are randomized to control and intervention group in a 1/1 manner. A few weeks thereafter medical students from the local medical school visit the schools and perform a smoking prevention intervention called "photoaging mirroring intervention" which takes about 45 minutes. One month and six months after the intervention the intervention group receives another anonymous questionnaire monitoring smoking status. The primary endpoint is the difference in the chance of smoking prevalence between the two groups.
Before February 2018 the baseline survey is conducted in about 60 class in Brazilian secondary schools. These classes are randomized to control and intervention group in a 1/1 manner. A few weeks thereafter medical students from the local medical school visit the schools and perform a smoking prevention intervention called "photoaging mirroring intervention" which takes about 45 minutes. One month and six months after the intervention the intervention group receives another anonymous questionnaire monitoring smoking status. The primary endpoint is the difference in the chance of smoking prevalence between the two groups.
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
PREVENTION
Masking
NONE
Enrollment
1,000
Medical students perform "mirroring" with the pupils in the schools where they shoot selfies with tablets and photoage them to future non-smokers vs. future smokers.
University of Itauna
Itaúna, Brazil
Titus Brinker
Bünde, Germany
The difference of prevalences after six months
The primary outcome is the difference of the smoking prevalence from baseline to six months follow-up between the two groups.
Time frame: six months
The difference of prevalences after one month
The secondary outcome is the difference of the smoking prevalence from baseline to one month follow-up between the two groups.
Time frame: 1 month
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