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. A set of lessons focused on e-cigarette/vaping prevention education specifically is called the Be Vape Free curriculum. The aims of this study are to determine: (1) whether the Be Vape Free curriculum is effective in increasing middle and high school students' resistance to using tobacco and in decreasing positive attitudes towards and intentions to use e-cigarettes; (2) whether the Curriculum is effective in changing middle and high school students' actual use of tobacco; and (3) Examine heterogenous treatment effects identifying groups that benefit the most and those who do not benefit at all from the intervention.
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
PREVENTION
Masking
NONE
Enrollment
10,800
Stanford vaping prevention curriculum delivered as a 5-session course administered in a school classroom setting.
Stanford University
Palo Alto, California, United States
Change in e-cigarette use
Investigator-originated survey measures (questions) assess ever e-cigarette use \& past 30-day tobacco use. This outcome measure assesses e-cigarette use.
Time frame: Change from baseline to follow-up at approximately 156 weeks
Change in intention to use of e-cigarettes scaled score as measured by investigator-originated survey
This survey measures change in intention to use e-cigarettes with questions related to the participant's knowledge of and resistance to use of e-cigarettes.
Time frame: Change from baseline to follow-up at approximately 156 weeks
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