Clinical trial NCT00056927: Anti-Smoking Program for Parents: Effects on Child Smoking
Official title: Preventing Initiation of Smoking by Children
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: COMPLETED
Phase: NA
Conditions: Smoking
Keywords: Smoking
Primary Prevention
Health Education
Child
Parents
Parenting Education
Communication
Lead sponsor: Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD)
Sponsor class: NIH
First posted: 2003-03-27
Enrollment: 1007
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 8
Standard ages: CHILD
ADULT
OLDER_ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: yes
Allocation: RANDOMIZED
Intervention model: PARALLEL
Primary purpose: ECT

Brief summary: The purpose of this study is to determine whether an anti-smoking program for parents who smoke will lower the odds that their children will start smoking. The study will evaluate an activity-based program for parents and their children. The program is home-based and uses the mail for program delivery.

Detailed description: Youth whose parents smoke cigarettes are at high risk for early initiation of cigarette smoking, and youth who first smoke cigarettes during childhood are at high risk for subsequent addiction to tobacco. Parents influence their children's perceptions of the prevalence of smoking, the acceptability of smoking, the accessibility of cigarettes, and the personal and social consequences of smoking. All parents, including parents who smoke, can engage in anti-smoking socialization, which may lower children's risk of smoking.

Although there are some programs available that are directed at preventing initiation of smoking during childhood, none of these prevention programs engage parents who smoke in altering children's smoking-specific socialization. This study will evaluate a program to change smoking-specific socialization of children in households where parents smoke cigarettes.

Consenting volunteers will be randomly assigned to either treatment (anti-smoking socialization program) or control groups. Parents in the treatment group will participate in the "Smoke-free Kids" program and receive activity magazines, newsletters, and support calls. Parents in the control group will receive a fact sheet about youth smoking. Parents involved in the study will be assessed through a telephone interview 1 month after completion of the three-month anti-smoking program. Assenting children will complete surveys administered at school at 12, 24, and 36 months after completion of the anti-smoking program. Primary and secondary dependent variables include initiation of cigarette smoking and susceptibility to cigarette smoking by children. The child survey will also assess risk and protective factors.

Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria

* Parents or guardians who smoke
* Have children in the 3rd grade
* Belong to participating school districts in North Carolina, South Carolina, or Colorado

Primary outcomes:
measure: Initiation of cigarette smoking -- 3 years post treatment
Secondary outcomes:
measure: Susceptibility for initiation of cigarette smoking -- 1 year post treatment
Other outcomes:
Locations:
Study officials:
affiliation: Pacific Institute for Research and Evaluation
name: Christine Jackson, Ph.D.
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
References:
citation: Jackson C, Dickinson D. Can parents who smoke socialise their children against smoking? Results from the Smoke-free Kids intervention trial. Tob Control. 2003 Mar;12(1):52-9. doi: 10.1136/tc.12.1.52.