The Impact of a Tobacco Control Intervention in African-American Families

The Impact of a Tobacco Control Intervention in African-American Families

The purpose of this randomized control trial is to evaluate the effects of a multi-component intervention aimed at:

1. preventing tobacco initiation in youth
2. promoting anti-tobacco socialization in the home
3. decreasing environmental tobacco smoke exposure in children
4. promoting successful cessation in parent/guardian smokers.

Control arm participants receive general health education. This family-based approach is implemented with school systems as the primary point of entry.

All research participants (children and parents/guardians) will be recruited from 14 schools (7 control and 7 intervention; 7 urban and 7 rural) in a Southeastern U.S.

Self-report measures are at: baseline, end of year one, year 2, end of year two, and years three and four. Biological measures of salivary cotinine are at Baseline, end of treatment (year 2) and end of study (year 4).

Inclusion Criteria:

• child being of African-American ethnicity
• in a 4th grade classroom of randomized schools
• parent or guardian that 4th grade child resides with at least 50% of the time
• have access to a telephone or mobile phone

Exclusion Criteria:

• not being a child of African-American ethnicity
• not being a parent or guardian that an eligible child lives with at least 50% of the time
• not having access to a telephone or cell phone