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| Type: | Article |
| Title: | Randomized trials on consider this, a tailored, Internet-delivered smoking prevention program for adolescents |
| Author: | Buller, David B.
Borland, Ron
Woodall, W. Gill
Hall, John R.
Hines, Joan M.
Burris-Woodall, Patricia
Cutter, Gary R.
Miller, Carolyn Ann
Balmford, James
Starling, Randall C.
Ax, Bryan
Saba, Laura |
| Citation: | Health Education & Behavior, 2008; 35 (2):260-281 |
| Publisher: | Sage Publications |
| Issue Date: | 2008 |
| ISSN: | 1090-1981 |
| School/Discipline: | School of Population Health and Clinical Practice : General Practice |
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Responsibility: | David B. Buller, Ron Borland, W. Gill Woodall,
John R. Hall, Joan M. Hines, Patricia Burris-Woodall, Gary R. Cutter, Caroline Miller, James Balmford Randall Starling, Bryan Ax and Laura Saba |
| Abstract: | The Internet may be an effective medium for delivering smoking prevention to children. Consider This, an Internet-based program, was hypothesized to reduce expectations concerning smoking and smoking prevalence. Group-randomized pretest-posttest controlled trials were conducted in Australia (n = 2,077) and the United States (n = 1,234) in schools containing Grades 6 through 9. Australian children using Consider This reported reduced 30-day smoking prevalence. This reduction was mediated by decreased subjective norms. The amount of program exposure was low in many classes, but program use displayed a dose-response relationship with reduced smoking prevalence. American children only reported lower expectations for smoking in the future. Intervening to prevent smoking is a challenge, and this data suggest small benefits from an Internet-based program that are unlikely to be of practical significance unless increased by improved implementation. Implementation remains the major challenge to delivering interventions via the Internet, both for health educators and researchers. |
| Keywords: | smoking; prevention; adolescents; Internet |
| RMID: | 0020080487 |
| DOI: | 10.1177/1090198106288982 |
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