Trials / Completed
CompletedNCT01348646
Adult Follow-up of Preventive Study With Brief Smoking Intervention for Adolescents
- Status
- Completed
- Phase
- N/A
- Study type
- Interventional
- Enrollment
- 2,582 (actual)
- Sponsor
- Tampere University Hospital · Academic / Other
- Sex
- All
- Age
- 12 Years – 29 Years
- Healthy volunteers
- Not accepted
Summary
The purpose of this study was to see whether a brief intervention given in adolescence has an effect on smoking in adulthood. The investigators also wanted to clarify the significance of some known psychosocial risk factors of smoking in adulthood.
Conditions
Interventions
| Type | Name | Description |
|---|---|---|
| BEHAVIORAL | Brief intervention | The adolescents were shown a series of photographs of discoloured teeth caused by smoking. Then a mirror was given to the adolescent to let him/her see if similar stains could be seen on his/her teeth. Non-smoking adolescents also received positive feedback for being non-smokers. Duration of a single brief intervention was 2-3 minutes. |
Timeline
- Start date
- 2008-05-01
- Primary completion
- 2010-05-01
- Completion
- 2010-05-01
- First posted
- 2011-05-05
- Last updated
- 2011-06-01
Locations
1 site across 1 country: Finland
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov record NCT01348646. Inclusion in this directory is not an endorsement.