NCJ Number
159996
Date Published
1995
Length
307 pages
Annotation
Directed to both researchers and program developers in public health and adolescent tobacco programs and health promotion, this volume presents a health researcher's perspective on the history, status, and requirements of school-based tobacco use prevention and cessation programs and research.
Abstract
The discussion emphasizes that the last 20 years of tobacco use prevention research has revealed that social influences are the major determinants of tobacco use in youth and that prevention is most effective if it addresses those social influences. The text then describes program options, the competing theoretical perspectives, and the methodological approaches to consider. Next it describes the development and implementation of Project Towards No Tobacco Use (Project TNT), a 5-year grant funded by the National Cancer Institute. Individual sections discuss issues concerning curriculum development and content; participant selection, assignment, tracking and attrition, analysis, and other methodological and statistical considerations; and the applicability of these methods and curricula products to other research areas. Tables, index, appended summaries of the content of Project TNT, and approximately 500 references