| Database ID |
713 |
| Title |
Optimising school nurse involvement in youth based tobacco control programs |
| Description |
This tobacco control project has been funded by Healthway for a five year period. The purpose of this project is to examine, prioritise and empirically test promising areas of research and intervention success in youth tobacco control including harm minimisation strategies targeting 11-17 year olds, involving teachers, parents and in particular, school nurses. The program is also designed to build capacity at two tiers: by training school nurses to deliver smoking cessation and harm minimisation interventions and by working with less experienced researchers to build their research capacity in the field of smoking cessation. |
| Status |
Complete |
| Researchers |
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| Keywords |
smoking; cessation; secondary schools; students; youth; nurses; professional training; workforce development; harm minimisation; intervention; prevention; parents; research; |
| Methodology |
A systematic scoping and critical review of national and international empirical and theoretical evidence will be conducted to inform the process and content of interventions to build school nurses’ capacity to reduce young people’s smoking.
A thorough review of available theories and models for whole school-based tobacco related interventions will be conducted and compiled to enable matching of the causal pathways and mediating variables for adolescent smoking.
Using literature review findings and appropriate theories and models for health interventions, a proposed intervention model will be developed to provide strategic direction for the development and implementation of a school-based capacity building intervention.
The Delphi Technique will be used to validate the proposed capacity building model and content/strategies for the intervention. Consensus data from the Delphi will be used to refine the intervention model for the delivery and content of the school interventions in tobacco control.
Secondary school nurses and other school-based allied health and education staff will be consulted to collect in-depth information about their response to the proposed capacity building model and adolescent tobacco control strategies.
- A sample of 30 secondary schools will be randomly selected and invited to participate in a pilot study. Key staff including nurses from participating schools will be asked to take part in a training program and to implement the tobacco control intervention.
- Further funding will be secured to conduct a randomised cluster intervention trial to measure the impact of the school capacity building intervention program compared with the school drug education tobacco prevention program currently used in most Western Australian schools.
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| Institution |
Edith Cowan University. Child Health Promotion Research Unit |
| Funding institutions |
- Healthway (Western Australia)
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| Start Date |
09-2005 |
| End Date |
01-2010 |
| Contact |
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| Indexed |
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