SS 13.30-15.00 Special sessions

EFFECT OF A SCHOOL-BASED SMOKING PREVENTION PROGRAMME ON RECRUITMENT OF SMOKERS

A country-wide representative random sample of 99 schools (every 11 th Norwegian secondary school) participates in a project launched by the Norwegian Cancer Society. A total of 195 classes and 4.441 students started out in the project in November 1994. In the evaluation study The Research Center for Health Promotion at the University of Bergen will follow this sample (cohort) till they graduate during spring 1997.

Schools are systematically allocated to one of four groups: Group A: Control. Group B: Smoking prevention intervention, containing classroom programme, parental involving and teacher-courses. Group C: Like B, but without teacher-courses. Group D: Like B, but without parental involvement.

Written consensus from students and parents are obtained from 95%.

Data are obtained from the baseline survey in November 1994, and follow-up surveys in may 1995 and march/April 1996. Data from first follow-up survey show promising results (Adjusted odd's ratio in intervention group B 0.38 or 0.55 depending on smoking category included)

Results from baseline and first and second follow-up surveys will be presented, showing the effect of the smoking prevention programme on recruitment of smokers in the three different intervention groups.

Intervention design and lesson contents will be presented at the Helsinki conference elsewhere (Bergh and coworkers).

Smoke Free Europe Conference Abstracts - 19 SEP 1996

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