Project FLAVOR: 1-Year Outcomes of a Multicultural, School-Based Smoking Prevention Curriculum for Adolescents
Jennifer B Unger1, Chih-Ping Chou, Paula H Palmer
1Transdisciplinary Tobacco Use Research Center, Department of Preventive Medicine, University of Southern California Keck School of Medicine, Los Angeles, 91803, USA. unger@usc.edu
Abstract:
To evaluate a multicultural smoking prevention curriculum, 16 schools were randomized to receive the multicultural curriculum or a standard curriculum and program effects on 1-year smoking initiation among 1430 never smokers were assessed. Hispanic boys who received the multicultural curriculum were less likely to initiate smoking than were those who received the standard curriculum; effects were insignificant among other groups. The prevention effect among Hispanic boys is encouraging, but additional research is needed to improve prevention effects among other groups.
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