NCT05897346

Training Secondary School Students as Anti-smoke Ambassadors Using the Service-learning Model

Learning While Serving: Training Secondary School Students as Anti-smoke Ambassadors Using the Service-learning Model

• Status: Recruiting
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 368 (estimated)
• Sponsor: The Hong Kong Polytechnic University · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: —
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

Building the community's capacity by training youngsters to refer smokers to professional smoking cessation services offers a good strategy to support smoking cessation. Peer pressure is considered the most common reason for smoking in young people. Smoking cessation interventions that target peers are likely to have substantial effects. This health promotion project based on the service-learning model will provide opportunity for young people to learn and practice the AWARD model with hands-on experience under the supervision of nursing students who are considered experienced peer counselors.

Detailed description

A hybrid type 1 effectiveness-implementation design will be adopted. A randomized sample of 368 students will be recruited from 14 secondary schools (Forms 2-4). The outcome measures will include demographic characteristics, the level of knowledge in smoking cessation and the AWARD model, the practice and attitude towards smoking cessation and the AWARD model, and the self-efficacy in using the AWARD model.

Conditions

• Smoking Cessation

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	'Learning while serving' training program	The training program will involve training workshops, hands-on sessions, and a smoker referral competition.
OTHER	Usual care	A 3-hour training workshops in the control group are regarded as usual care since the training workshops are also conducted regularly to other secondary or tertiary schools.

Timeline

• Start date: 2023-04-01
• Primary completion: 2026-04-01
• Completion: 2026-04-01
• First posted: 2023-06-09
• Last updated: 2024-06-13

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Hong Kong