A computerized smoking cessation intervention for high school smokers

This study evaluated a computerized intervention designed to assist high school-aged smokers to consider not smoking and move forward in the "Stages of Change." A pretest-posttest pilot was conducted with 121 high school students who completed self-reported questionnaires that provided inf...

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Published in:Pediatric nursing 2008-01, Vol.34 (1), p.13-17
Main Authors: Fritz, Deborah J, Hardin, Sally B, Gore, Jr, Paul A, Bram, Douglas
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adaptation, Psychological
Adolescent
Adolescent Behavior - psychology
Analysis of Variance
Attitude to Health
Behavior Change
Computer-Assisted Instruction - methods
Control Groups
Disease control
English language
Female
Health aspects
Health behavior
High School Students
Humans
Intervention
Linear Models
Male
Methods
Midwestern United States
Motivation
Nicotine
Nursing
Nursing Evaluation Research
Patient Education as Topic - organization & administration
Pilot Projects
Program Evaluation
Psychology, Adolescent
Risk factors
School Administration
School Health Services - organization & administration
Secondary schools
Self Efficacy
Smoking
Smoking cessation
Smoking Cessation - methods
Smoking Cessation - psychology
Smoking Cessation - statistics & numerical data
Smoking cessation programs
Social Support
Surveys and Questionnaires
Teenagers
Tobacco habit
Youth
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Summary:This study evaluated a computerized intervention designed to assist high school-aged smokers to consider not smoking and move forward in the "Stages of Change." A pretest-posttest pilot was conducted with 121 high school students who completed self-reported questionnaires that provided information about smoking history and exposure, smoking dependence, stage of change, and social support. Following baseline assessment, the experimental group (n = 61) completed four, 30-minute computerized sessions known as the Computerized Adolescent Smoking Cessation Program (CASCP). Immediately following completion of the program and 1 month later, the experimental subjects were reassessed. Control subjects completed baseline assessment and were reassessed 4 to 5 weeks later. CASCP increased the number of quit attempts. At 1 month after the intervention, 20% of the experimental group quit smoking. Of those subjects who did not quit smoking, nicotine dependence and the number of cigarettes smoked daily decreased, which decreased their nicotine dependence. Overall, there was a forward movement in the experimental group's stage of change. CASCP was found to be an effective and inexpensive intervention that motivates adolescent smokers to consider smoking cessation, move forward in the stage of change, and decrease nicotine dependence.
ISSN:0097-9805