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Erschienen in: The Journal of Primary Prevention 5/2016

07.07.2016 | Original Paper

Text Message Delivered Peer Network Counseling for Adolescent Smokers: A Randomized Controlled Trial

verfasst von: Michael Mason, Jeremy Mennis, Thomas Way, Nikola Zaharakis, Leah Floyd Campbell, Eric G. Benotsch, Lori Keyser-Marcus, Laura King

Erschienen in: Journal of Prevention | Ausgabe 5/2016

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Abstract

Although adolescent tobacco use has declined in the last 10 years, African American high school seniors’ past 30-day use has increased by 12 %, and as they age they are more likely to report lifetime use of tobacco. Very few urban youth are enrolled in evidenced-based smoking prevention and cessation programming. Therefore, we tested a text messaging smoking cessation intervention designed to engage urban youth through an automated texting program utilizing motivational interviewing-based peer network counseling. We recruited 200 adolescents (90.5 % African American) into a randomized controlled trial that delivered either the experimental intervention of 30 personalized motivational interviewing-based peer network counseling messages, or the attention control intervention, consisting of text messages covering general (non-smoking related) health habits. All adolescents were provided smart phones for the study and were assessed at baseline, and at 1, 3, and 6 months post intervention. Utilizing repeated measures general linear models we examined the effects of the intervention while controlling for race, gender, age, presence of a smoker in the home, and mental health counseling. At 6 months, participants in the experimental condition significantly decreased the number of days they smoked cigarettes and the number of cigarettes they smoked per day; they significantly increased their intentions not to smoke in the future; and significantly increased peer social support among girls. For boys, participants in the experimental condition significantly reduced the number of close friends in their networks who smoke daily compared to those in the control condition. Effect sizes ranged from small to large. These results provide encouraging evidence of the efficacy of text messaging interventions to reduce smoking among adolescents and our intervention holds promise as a large-scale public health preventive intervention platform.
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Metadaten
Titel
Text Message Delivered Peer Network Counseling for Adolescent Smokers: A Randomized Controlled Trial
verfasst von
Michael Mason
Jeremy Mennis
Thomas Way
Nikola Zaharakis
Leah Floyd Campbell
Eric G. Benotsch
Lori Keyser-Marcus
Laura King
Publikationsdatum
07.07.2016
Verlag
Springer US
Erschienen in
Journal of Prevention / Ausgabe 5/2016
Print ISSN: 2731-5533
Elektronische ISSN: 2731-5541
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10935-016-0439-2

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