The relationship between school-based smoking policies and prevention programs on smoking behavior among grade 12 students in Prince Edward Island: A multilevel analysis
| Autor: | Scott T. Leatherdale, Donna Murnaghan, Marja Sihvonen, Pertti Kekki |
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| Rok vydání: | 2007 |
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Gerontology Evaluation system Adolescent Epidemiology Smoking prevention education Smoking Prevention Health Promotion Risk Assessment Smoking behavior Cohort Studies 03 medical and health sciences Risk-Taking 0302 clinical medicine Environmental health Odds Ratio Humans Medicine 030212 general & internal medicine Schools 030505 public health business.industry 4. Education Smoking Multilevel model Public Health Environmental and Occupational Health Tobacco use prevention Organizational Policy 3. Good health Prince Edward Island Cross-Sectional Studies Increased risk Adolescent Behavior Cohort Regression Analysis Female School based 0305 other medical science business Program Evaluation |
| Zdroj: | Preventive Medicine. 44:317-322 |
| ISSN: | 0091-7435 |
| Popis: | Purpose To examine how school-based smoking policies and prevention programs are associated with occasional and regular smoking among a cohort of grade 12 students in Prince Edward Island, Canada, between 1999 and 2001. Methods Data from the Tobacco Module of the School Health Action, Planning and Evaluation System (SHAPES) collected from 3,965 grade 12 students in 10 high schools were examined using multi-level regression analysis. Results Attending a school with smoking prevention programming was associated with a decreased risk of being an occasional smoker (OR 0.42, 95% CI: 0.18, 0.97). School-based policies banning smoking on school property were associated with a small increased risk of occasional smoking (OR 1.06, 95% CI: 0.67, 1.68) among some students. The combination of both policies and programs was not associated with either occasional or regular smoking. Conclusion This preliminary evidence suggests that tailored school-based prevention programming may be effective at reducing smoking uptake; however, school smoking policies and the combination of programs and policies were relatively ineffective. These findings suggest that a new approach to school-based tobacco use prevention may be required. |
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