Changing channels for tobacco control with youth: developing an intervention for working teens

Worksites represent an untapped resource for reaching teens with tobacco control messages, given that 80% of teens have held at least one job by the time they graduate from high school. This paper presents formative research findings from a methods development study aimed at designing and testing a...

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Published in:Health education research 2004-06, Vol.19 (3), p.250-260
Main Authors: Sorensen, Glorian, Fagan, Pebbles, Hunt, Mary Kay, Stoddard, Anne M., Girod, Kathy, Eisenberg, Marla, Frazier, Lindsay
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adolescent
Adolescents
Behavior Change
Behavior Modification
Boston
Cancer
Case Studies
Coping
Departments
Educational Change
Employment
Employment Experience
Female
Focus Groups
Formative Evaluation
Grocery stores
Health Education
Health Promotion
Health Promotion - methods
Health technology assessment
Humans
Intervention
Interventions
Male
Occupational Health Services - organization & administration
ORIGINAL ARTICLES
Program Development
Public Health
Qualitative Research
Smoking
Smoking Prevention
Social Behavior
Student Employment
Surveys
USA
Work Environment
Workplace
Young people
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Summary:Worksites represent an untapped resource for reaching teens with tobacco control messages, given that 80% of teens have held at least one job by the time they graduate from high school. This paper presents formative research findings from a methods development study aimed at designing and testing a tobacco control intervention targeting working teens. Formative research included qualitative methods as well as quantitative data from a cross‐sectional survey of teens employed in 10 participating grocery stores. Contrary to our a priori hypothesis, smoking rates among employed youth in this study were not higher than statewide averages and most of the teen workers were still in school, indicating that worksite interventions, at least in this setting, represent an alternative or adjunct to school‐based programs, but do not necessarily capture a unique population. Employed teen tobacco use patterns and work characteristics that emerged from our formative research are presented in this paper, and may be useful in planning future worksite interventions for employed teens.
ISSN:0268-1153
1465-3648
1465-3648
DOI:10.1093/her/cyg019