American Journal of Preventive Medicine
Volume 23, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 269-275

Tobacco and alcohol use-prevention program for Hispanic migrant adolescents (Article)

Elder J.P.* , Litrownik A.J. , Slymen D.J. , Campbell N.R. , Parra-Medina D. , Choe S. , Lee V. , Ayala G.X.
  • a San Diego State University, Graduate School of Public Health, San Diego, CA, United States, Ctr. for Behav./Comm. Health Studies, San Diego State University, Graduate School of Public Health, 9245 Sky Park, San Diego, CA 92123, United States
  • b San Diego State Univ.-Univ. of C., Joint Doctoral Prog. in Clin. P., San Diego, CA, United States
  • c San Diego State University, Graduate School of Public Health, San Diego, CA, United States
  • d San Diego State University, Graduate School of Public Health, San Diego, CA, United States
  • e San Diego State University, Graduate School of Public Health, San Diego, CA, United States
  • f San Diego State University, Graduate School of Public Health, San Diego, CA, United States
  • g San Diego State University, Graduate School of Public Health, San Diego, CA, United States
  • h University of North Carolina, School of Public Health, Chapel Hill, NC, United States

Abstract

Objectives: Evaluate a community-based tobacco/alcohol use-prevention program group compared with an attention-control condition (first aid/home safety) group. Methods: A total of 660 adolescents and 1 adult caregiver for each were recruited through the Migrant Education Program to participate in an 8-week intervention. Random assignment to the two groups occurred in 22 schools. Seventy 8-week intervention groups (37 tobacco/alcohol and 33 attention-control) were conducted. Assessments occurred at baseline, immediate post-intervention, and 1- and 2-year follow-ups. Susceptibility to smoking and alcohol as well as smoking and drinking over the past 30 days were the primary outcomes of interest. Results: Following intervention, no between-group differences in smoking or drinking were significant. Thirty-day smoking started and remained at very low levels, with the highest group prevalence at any measurement period being 4.7% and the lowest 2.5%. Those considered susceptible to smoking dropped by nearly 40% in the attention-control group and by 50% in the intervention group from baseline to the final follow-up. (The overall reduction from post-test to final follow-up was statistically significant.) Less-acculturated children were less likely to report drinking in the past 30 days. Conclusions: The current intervention was not demonstrated to be effective in preventing cigarette or alcohol consumption. This perhaps is due to very low baseline levels of smoking and drinking in the migrant youth participants. © 2002 American Journal of Preventive Medicine.

Author Keywords

Transients and migrants Intervention studies Primary prevention tobacco Alcohol drinking Hispanic Americans smoking Adolescence

Index Keywords

Alcohol Drinking drinking behavior alcohol consumption randomization follow up human ethnic group Hispanic Americans statistical significance smoking cessation health program Humans smoking Adolescent California male Intervention Studies female preventive health service primary prevention prevalence Article Adolescent Behavior program evaluation health education migration Transients and Migrants attention caregiver
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DOI: 10.1016/S0749-3797(02)00515-9
ISSN: 07493797
Cited by: 17
Original Language: English