Abstract
Recent studies have suggested that a prevention program that addresses the social influences that encourage smoking can be effective in deterring cigarette use by adolescents. This study presents 1-, 2-, and 3-year follow-up results from two studies which evaluated three variations of the social influences curriculum and compared them to a health consequences program and a usual-care comparison group. These results suggest that a peer-led, social influences program can restrain smoking among both baseline nonsmokers and baseline experimental smokers at 2 years postintervention. Analyses of attrition data suggest no evidence to threaten the internal validity of these findings, although their generalizability to baseline smokers may be limited.
Original language | English (US) |
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Pages (from-to) | 595-611 |
Number of pages | 17 |
Journal | Journal of Behavioral Medicine |
Volume | 10 |
Issue number | 6 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Dec 1 1987 |
Keywords
- adolescent
- prevention
- smoking
- social influences