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A Study to Evaluate the Impact of Direct and Surrogate Advertising and Compliance With the Bill With the Respect to Sale of Tobacco Products Around Educational Institutes

NCT01275950 · Status: UNKNOWN · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 480

Last updated 2011-01-13

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

The Project aims at enlisting the outlets selling tobacco in any form and enlisting the tobacco based advertisements (Direct and Surrogate) directed towards the community, within 100 yards of the selected educational institutes and studying their impact on the students of that institute. This will further be followed by an intervention program directed at the outlet owners which entails creating awareness about the harmful effects of tobacco and the existing bill and thereby assessing any change in Knowledge, Attitude and Practice. The results thus obtained will facilitate implementation of the existing Bill.

Conditions

  • Assessing and Creating Awareness About the Tobacco Law

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Health Education

1. Implementing the intervention programme designed for creating awareness about harmful effect of tobacco (smoked and smokeless forms) and the current regulation to the shop-owners. 2. Administering the questionnaire to objectively asses the impact of direct/ surrogate tobacco advertisements influencing student behavior and perception about tobacco and tobacco products. 3. Implementing the intervention programme designed for creating awareness about harmful effect of tobacco (smoked and smokeless forms) and the current regulation to the students through interactive sessions with students in their respective educational institute.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Tata Memorial Hospital

    lead OTHER_GOV

Principal Investigators

  • Sharmila A Pimple, MD · Tata Memorial Hospital

  • Gauravi A Mishra, MD · Tata Memorial Hospital

Study Design

Allocation
NA
Purpose
PREVENTION
Masking
NONE
Model
SINGLE_GROUP

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2010-05-31
Primary Completion
2011-04-30
Completion
2011-04-30

Countries

  • India

Study Locations

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