NCT01164306

The Impact of a Tobacco Control Intervention in African-American Families

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 688 (actual)
• Sponsor: Augusta University · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 8 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

The purpose of this randomized control trial is to evaluate the effects of a multi-component intervention aimed at: 1. preventing tobacco initiation in youth 2. promoting anti-tobacco socialization in the home 3. decreasing environmental tobacco smoke exposure in children 4. promoting successful cessation in parent/guardian smokers. Control arm participants receive general health education. This family-based approach is implemented with school systems as the primary point of entry.

Detailed description

All research participants (children and parents/guardians) will be recruited from 14 schools (7 control and 7 intervention; 7 urban and 7 rural) in a Southeastern U.S. Self-report measures are at: baseline, end of year one, year 2, end of year two, and years three and four. Biological measures of salivary cotinine are at Baseline, end of treatment (year 2) and end of study (year 4).

Conditions

• Tobacco Prevention
• Environmental Tobacco Smoke Exposure
• Tobacco Cessation

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	LifeSkills Training	LifeSkills Training (Botvin's) is an evidenced based substance abuse prevention program for elementary school students to learn skills to resist tobacco, alcohol, drug abuse, and violence. Parent LifeSkills will also be utilized. Parents are provided a parent manual and DVD to use at home with their child to reinforce what they are taught in school-based LifeSkills sessions.
BEHAVIORAL	Healthy Lifestyle Behavior Choices	The healthy lifestyle behavior choices curriculum augments the state health curriculum in the assigned study schools. Parents will also be given health related information by mail to parallel the information students receive in school health classes.
BEHAVIORAL	NRT and Motivational Interviewing (MI)	For parent/guardian smokers who want to quit, NRT is offered in conjunction with MI.

Timeline

• Start date: 2007-09-01
• Primary completion: 2012-05-01
• Completion: 2014-05-01
• First posted: 2010-07-16
• Last updated: 2015-02-02

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States