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Testing the Efficacy of a Smoking Cessation Program
for College Students
Ruth Staten, Ph.D.,
Principal Investigator
Mary DeLetter, Ph.D.;
Mary Kay Rayens, Ph.D.,
Co-investigators
Funded by the University of Kentucky Medical
Research Grants Program
(1999-2000)
Abstract
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Tobacco use is the number one preventable cause of morbidity
and mortality in the United States and accounts for 400,000
deaths each year (Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention, 1993). More Kentucky adults and teens smoke than
students nationwide (Wechsler et al., 1998). Smoking
cessation programs have been developed for clinical trial to
test the efficacy of a tailored smoking cessation
intervention for college students in reducing cigarette use.
A group intervention combined
with nicotine replacement therapy will be compared to a
pamphlet with information on nicotine replacement therapy.
The group intervention is based on the AHCPR Clinical
Practice Guidelines (Fiore et al., 1996) and data from focus
group interviews with college students. The group
intervention includes information on the addictive nature of
nicotine, benefits of becoming a non-smoker, managing
craving and alcohol use, and promoting health (emphasizing
return of positive physical status).
The sample for this true
experimental study will be recruited from campus and will
consist of 60 students who desire to quit smoking (30
controls and 30 experimentals). Students will be randomly
assigned to groups in blocks of 10 students. Baseline data
will be collected from all students on CO level, cigarette
use, addiction to nicotine, alcohol use, perceived
respiratory distress, physical status, general well-being,
and smoking cessation self-efficacy. For the experimental
group, NRT plus the seven-week group intervention will be
implemented by clinicians in the University Health Service.
The control group will receive a National Institutes of
Health/National Cancer Institute pamphlet on smoking
cessation with information on NRT. Follow-up data will be
collected on all variables 13 weeks and six months later. Data
will be analyzed using the Cochran-Mantel-Haenzel c2
test, repeated measures analysis of variance, and the
t-test.
The findings of this study will
serve as pilot data to support an R15 proposal.
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