Three-month effects of Project EX: A smoking intervention pilot program with Korean adolescents

AbstractDespite current prevention and cessation efforts, adolescent smoking remains a pressing issue worldwide, including in Korea. The current study evaluates Project EX-Korea, a teen tobacco use cessation program, three months after baseline. The quasi-experimental trial intervention involved 160...

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Veröffentlicht in:	Addictive behaviors reports 2019-06, Vol.9, p.100152-100152, Article 100152
Hauptverfasser:	Yu, Sheila, Galimov, Artur, Sussman, Steve, Jeong, Goo Churl, Shin, Sung Rae
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Korea Project EX Psychiatric/Mental Health Research paper Smoking cessation Tobacco
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Zusammenfassung:	AbstractDespite current prevention and cessation efforts, adolescent smoking remains a pressing issue worldwide, including in Korea. The current study evaluates Project EX-Korea, a teen tobacco use cessation program, three months after baseline. The quasi-experimental trial intervention involved 160 smokers in 10th to 12th grade, 85 from the program condition schools and 75 from the control. At three-month follow-up, the intent-to-treat (ITT) quit rate in the program group (30.2%) was 3.6 times that of the rate in the standard care control group (9.2%; p
ISSN:	2352-8532 2352-8532
DOI:	10.1016/j.abrep.2018.100152