Clinical trial NCT02443025: Teens Against Tobacco Use: A Model for Universal Tobacco Prevention and Youth Advocacy
Official title: Teens Against Tobacco Use: A Model for Universal Tobacco Prevention and Youth Advocacy
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: COMPLETED
Phase: NA
Conditions: Tobacco Smoking Behavior
Lead sponsor: The University of Texas Health Science Center, Houston
Sponsor class: OTHER
Collaborators: name: Paso del Norte Health Foundation
First posted: 2015-05-13
Enrollment: 2414
Sex: ALL
Standard ages: CHILD
ADULT
OLDER_ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: yes
Allocation: RANDOMIZED
Intervention model: PARALLEL
Primary purpose: PREVENTION

Brief summary: This study evaluates the efficacy of Teens Against Tobacco Use anti-tobacco presentations on tobacco use susceptibility in 4th-8th grade. Classrooms are randomly assigned to either receive a series of two presentations or wait listed to receive them later in the school year.

Detailed description: The investigators will collaborate with Austin High School, Wiggs Middle School, and Guillen Middle School of the El Paso Independent School District to implement smoke free youth coalitions as an after school activity. The coalitions will follow the Teens Against Tobacco Use (TATU) model developed by the American Lung Association, the American Cancer Society, and the American Heart Association. Participating youth will be trained to develop and deliver anti-tobacco presentations to younger students. Each school will have a separate youth coalition operating under the guidance of an adult coordinator. High school youth will present to middle school classes, whereas middle school youth will present to 4th and 5th graders.

To evaluate the efficacy of the smoke-free presentations, the investigators will first match pairs of classrooms willing to have a presentation and then randomly assign one classroom in each pair to either receive the presentation first (intervention condition) or later in the school year (control condition). Following a presentation to a classroom in the intervention condition, investigators will administer a brief survey about tobacco to students in both the intervention class and its matched control class, who have not yet received a presentation. Analyses will compare intervention and control classrooms on smoking susceptibility, perceptions of harm from tobacco use, tobacco industry perceptions, and social norms on tobacco use.

Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* 4th to 8th grade student
* Classroom must be willing to be randomly assigned to either receive presentations earlier in the school year or late in the school year

Exclusion Criteria:

* Classes in participating schools that are not in the 4th to 8th grade
* Students not able to read English or Spanish

Primary outcomes:
measure: Standardized Tobacco Susceptibility as assessed by 12 likert scale items drawn primarily from the global youth tobacco survey
timeFrame: within 24 hours of receiving presentation
Secondary outcomes:
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: El Paso
country: United States
facility: The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, School of Public Health, El Paso Regional Campus
state: Texas
Study officials:
affiliation: The University of Texas Health Science Center, Houston
name: Louis D Brown, Ph.D.
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
References:
citation: Brown LD, Bandiera FC, Harrell MB. Cluster Randomized Trial of Teens Against Tobacco Use: Youth Empowerment for Tobacco Control in El Paso, Texas. Am J Prev Med. 2019 Nov;57(5):592-600. doi: 10.1016/j.amepre.2019.06.013. Epub 2019 Sep 26.