The Stanford Tobacco Prevention Toolkit is a free online curriculum developed for use by educators and health professionals in providing tobacco-specific prevention education to middle and high school students. The aims of this study are to determine: (1) whether the Curriculum is effective in changing middle and high school students' resistance to using tobacco as well as knowledge of, attitudes towards, and intentions to use different tobacco products; and (2) whether the Curriculum is effective in changing middle and high school students' actual use of tobacco in the short-term.
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
PREVENTION
Masking
NONE
Stanford Toolkit curriculum delivered as a 5-session course in a school classroom setting.
Stanford University
Palo Alto, California, United States
Change in resistance to use of tobacco products scaled score as measured by investigator-originated survey
This survey measures change in resistance to use of tobacco products with questions related to the participant's intention to use tobacco.
Time frame: Change from baseline to follow-up at approximately 40 weeks post-baseline
Change in skills for refusal of tobacco products scaled score as measured by investigator-originated survey
This survey measures change in skills to refuse tobacco use with questions related to the participant's susceptibility to tobacco use, self-efficacy and self-confidence.
Time frame: Change from baseline to follow-up at approximately 40 weeks post-baseline
Change in knowledge of tobacco products scaled score as measured by investigator-originated survey
This survey measures knowledge of tobacco products with questions related to the participant's knowledge of ingredients, of nicotine levels, of potential health outcomes.
Time frame: Change from baseline to follow-up at approximately 40 weeks post-baseline
This survey measures use of tobacco products with questions related to the participant's ever tobacco use, past 30-day tobacco use, and past 7-day tobacco use.
Investigator-originated survey survey measures (questions) assess ever tobacco use, past 30-day tobacco use, past 7-day tobacco use This outcome measure assesses tobacco products use.
Time frame: Change from baseline to follow-up at approximately 40 weeks post-baseline
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