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Instituto Nacional de Salud Pública
1993
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- EFECTIVIDAD DE UN PROGRAMA DE PREVENCION DE TABAQUISMO EN ESCOLARES MEXICANOS Rafael Laniado Craig A. John P. Salud smoking infancy prevention behavioral skills The main objective of this study was to determine if a program emphasizing training for coping with the social pressures to smoke cigarretes is effective in preventing initial experimentation in the same population. Six elementary schools in Tijuana, Mexico, were included in this prospective study with the participation of 168 sixth- graders. After a baseline survey students were randomly assigned to an intervention and a control group. A program that emphasizes peer-pressure resistance skills to avoid smoking was applied to the intervention group. The control group received no intervention. After 10 months a second survey was carried out in both groups. A significantly smaller proportion of subjects in the intervention group experimented with tobacco during the follow-up period when compared with controls (8.1% vs 20%; p <0.05). Although designed as a prevention tool, the program also had a therapeutic effect. The proportion of subjects in the intervention group that quit smoking was significantly higher than that of the control group (72% vs 34.78%; p <0.01). We conclude that this peer pressure resistance skill program was effective in preventing experimentation with tobacco among sixth graders in Tijuana, Mexico 1993 otro 0036-3634 https://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=10635410 en http://www.redalyc.org/revista.oa?id=106 Salud Pública de México application/pdf Instituto Nacional de Salud Pública Salud Pública de México (México) Num.4 Vol.35