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Reports
Adolescent Smokers and Smoking Cessation Studies: Issues in Eligibility,
Enrollment, Recruitment and Retention
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This summary report outlines the main ideas presented in this session at the March 2005 Society for Research and Nicotine on Tobacco's (SRNT)annual meeting.
Evaluability of Youth Tobacco Cessation Programs: Report on a Survey Conducted for the Youth Tobacco Cessation Collaborative
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In July 2000, the Academy for Educational Development (AED) was commissioned by the Youth Tobacco Cessation Collaborative (YTCC) to conduct a survey among existing youth tobacco cessation programs. The purpose of the survey was to determine programs' current evaluation practives and capacities for conducting further evaluation. This survey was distributed to 115 known programs, and responses were obtained from 46 of these.
The programs which responded to this survey employ a broad range of cessation approaches. Duration of implementation and target ages of populations vary widely among the programs. The number of participants enrolled varies greatly, but participation completion rates are high for most of the programs. Participation is generally voluntary, however students are often referred to programs by school nurses. The size of program staff is generally one or two persons, most of whom receive special training in adolescent cessation. Most programs do not charge fees for participation, but budgets vary widely. Program sponsors are primarily national organizations, state and local health departments, hospitals and other health facilities.
Expert Workshop on Human Subjects and Ethical Issues Related to Treatment and Research in Youth Smoking Cessation: Summary Report
This is a summary report from the workshop was hosted by the Helping Young Smokers Quit initiative at the Institute for Health Research and Policy, University of Illinois at Chicago with funding by The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
Identifying Outcome Indicators and Measurement Items for Evaluating Youth Smoking Cessation Interventions (2006)
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Identifying Outcome Indicators and Measurement Items for Evaluating Youth Smoking Cessation Interventions (2006): APPENDICES
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La cessation tabagique chez les jeunes: Un guide pour prendre des décisions éclairéesis
A French version of the youth tobacco cessation document has been developed by the Canadian Tobacco Control and Research Initiative.
Legacy First Look Report 11 (July 2003): Youth Tobacco Cessation: Results from the 2000 National Youth Tobacco Survey
As the leading cause of death in the United States, tobacco use is a critical public health issue, particularly among our nation's youth. Over 90 percent of adult smokers began smoking at or before age 19 (Mowery, Brick, and Farrelly, 2000). This fact clearly demonstrates the need to reduce overall tobacco use before adulthood, during adolescence. Much of the effort to reduce overall tobacco use focuses on primary prevention. Recent reductions in youth smoking rates are encouraging of these preventive efforts (Johnston, O'Malley and Bachman, 2002). Unfortunately, according to data from the 2000 National Household Survey on Drug Abuse (NHSDA), more than 2,000 young people still become smokers each day and join the ranks of approximately 3 million of their peers who smoke (Office of Applied Studies, 2002). Therefore, understanding cessation behavior among adolescents is critical. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) states that, "programs that successfully assist young and adult smokers in quitting can produce a quicker and probably larger short-term public health benefit thant any other component of a comprehensive tobacco control program" (CDC, 1999, p.24).
Relatively low rates of "spontaneous quitting" among adolescents also highlight the need for effective youth cessation interventions. These rates range from 4 percent to 6 percent for regular or daily smokers and from 21 percent to 33 percent for occasional smokers (Mermelstein, 2002). However, less that 70 empiracal studies on smoking cessation interventions for adolescents have been published, and only 15 of these have used randomized, experimental designs (Sussman, 2002). Using information for a national youth tobacco survey, this report explores tobacco cessation among youth aged 12 to 19. It describes current smoking behavior, cessation attempts, and factors that influence youth quitting behavior.
Measures Guide for Youth Tobacco Research
The guide is intended as a resource for anyone conducting research on youth tobacco use or intervening with adolescent tobacco users, such as clinicians and public health practitioners. The standardized and psychometrically sound measures presented in this guide were compiled via a detailed method involving its developers and researchers submitting measures for inclusion. The guide will assist researchers in achieving consistency of measurement across studies for describing smoking patterns, establishing inclusion and exclusion criteria for participation, measuring potentially important mediators and moderators of treatment outcomes, and measuring tobacco use outcomes. Each measure is briefly described and details are provided about the target population, administrative issues, scoring information, psychometrics, clinical utility of the instrument, research applicability, copyright / cost issues, references, authorship and author’s contact information.
NCI Smoking and Tobacco Control Monograph 14: Changing Adolescent Smoking Prevalence
This monograph is the first major update of adolescent smokking behavior since the groundbreaking reports of the Surgeon General and the Institute of Medicine in 1994. The authors of this National Cancer Institute (NCI) Monograph report some progress toward reducing tobacco use among adolescents, but also highlight areas in which more efforts need to be made.
The Impact of Not on Tobacco on Teen Smoking Cessation: End-of-Program Evaluation Results, 1998-2003
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Youth Tobacco Cessation Interventions: A Bibliography (February 2001 - June 2006)
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Youth Tobacco Cessation: A Guide for Making Informed Decisions
The Youth Cessation Guide was being developed to provide guidance to those making decisions about implementing youth cessation interventions considering the limited evidence of effectiveness. The guide captures the recommendations from a combination of researchers, practitioners, policy makers, and funding organizations.
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