TY - JOUR
T1 - The European Smoking prevention Framework Approach (EFSA)
T2 - An example of integral prevention
AU - De Vries, Hein
AU - Mudde, Aart
AU - Leijs, Ingrid
AU - Charlton, Anne
AU - Vartiainen, Errki
AU - Buijs, Goof
AU - Clemente, Manuel Pais
AU - Storm, Hans
AU - González Navarro, Andrez
AU - Nebot, Manel
AU - Prins, Trudy
AU - Kremers, Stef
PY - 2003/10
Y1 - 2003/10
N2 - A smoking prevention project in six European countries (European Smoking prevention Framework Approach) was developed, featuring activities for adolescents, schools and parents, including out-of-school activities. Consensus meetings resulted in agreement between the countries on goals, objectives and theoretical methods. Countries' specific objectives were also included. National diversities required country-specific methods to realize the goals and objectives. The community intervention trial was used as the research design. Since interventions took place at the community level, communities or regions were allocated at random to the experimental or control conditions. Complete randomization was achieved in four countries. At baseline, smoking prevalence among 23 125 adolescents at the start of the project was 5.6% for regular smoking and 4.0% for daily smoking. Smoking prevalence rates were higher among girls than boys in all countries as far as weekly smoking was concerned. Process evaluations revealed that the project's ambitions were high, but were limited by various constraints including time and delays in receiving funds. Future smoking prevention projects should aim to identify the effective components within the social influence approach as well as within broader approaches and on reaching sustained effects.
AB - A smoking prevention project in six European countries (European Smoking prevention Framework Approach) was developed, featuring activities for adolescents, schools and parents, including out-of-school activities. Consensus meetings resulted in agreement between the countries on goals, objectives and theoretical methods. Countries' specific objectives were also included. National diversities required country-specific methods to realize the goals and objectives. The community intervention trial was used as the research design. Since interventions took place at the community level, communities or regions were allocated at random to the experimental or control conditions. Complete randomization was achieved in four countries. At baseline, smoking prevalence among 23 125 adolescents at the start of the project was 5.6% for regular smoking and 4.0% for daily smoking. Smoking prevalence rates were higher among girls than boys in all countries as far as weekly smoking was concerned. Process evaluations revealed that the project's ambitions were high, but were limited by various constraints including time and delays in receiving funds. Future smoking prevention projects should aim to identify the effective components within the social influence approach as well as within broader approaches and on reaching sustained effects.
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U2 - 10.1093/her/cyg031
DO - 10.1093/her/cyg031
M3 - Article
C2 - 14572020
AN - SCOPUS:0141882867
SN - 0268-1153
VL - 18
SP - 611
EP - 626
JO - Health Education Research
JF - Health Education Research
IS - 5
ER -