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Evaluation of a School-based Smoking Prevention and Cessation Programme in Negeri Sembilan

NCT04378725 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 349

Last updated 2020-06-22

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Summary

School-based smoking cessation programmes stretched longer than a year had 12% reduction in preventing smoking uptake. With regards to smoking intervention programme among adolescents, there is a lack of evidences regarding its long-term effectiveness. This was due to lack of clear guidelines, methodological issues and the fact that adolescents were likely to be sporadic or non-daily smoker, leading to discrepancies in their self-reported claim. Adolescent's smoking relapse rate was at 47% while those who never smoke have a 13% chance to become smoker. Light and regular smokers have 30% and 75% chance becoming an adult smoker respectively. A review paper in smoking research in Malaysia showed that the provision of anti-smoking education in school was associated with reduced susceptibility in female smoking.Male students perceived printable media, radio and the Internet as effective in delivering anti-smoking messages.School-based smoking cessation programme has been shown to be cost-effective in helping the students to quit smoking both in developed and developing countries.For this reason, it is essential to explore what are the factors that amplify the success rate of smoking cessation effect of the KOTAK programme.

Conditions

  • Smoking

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

School-based smoking prevention and cessation program (The KOTAK program)

Advance Intervention: Following the screening process, this intervention package was inclusive of group-briefing for the smokers in at least 3 subsequent sessions in one academic year. The content delivered by the dentist were based on the KOTAK guidebook consisted of 8 Modules.The modules were as follows: 1. Introduction: Identifying students who smoke 2. Cigarette and addiction 3. The danger of smoking and passive smokers 4. Advantages of smoke-free lifestyle and adolescent perception on smoking 5. Legal and religious perception of smoking 6. The benefits of smoking cessation 7. Preparation and how to stop smoking 8. Nicotine withdrawal symptom and relapse prevention The Intervention schools: Screened smokers were given Advanced Intervention sessions. After discussion with the State's oral health deputy director and district's programme coordinator, for the purpose of this study, the interval of the Advance Intervention session was decided at 1-month interval.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • University of Malaya

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Roslan Saub, BDS MDSc PhD · University of Malaya

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
SINGLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
13 Years
Max Age
17 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2019-01-15
Primary Completion
2019-12-30
Completion
2020-01-30

Countries

  • Malaysia

Study Locations

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