Smoking

Study data from Klein Buendel, Inc. update knowledge of smoking

Published in Healthcare Finance, Tax and Law Weekly, December 12th, 2007

According to a study from the United States, "The effect of endorsement by local opinion leaders and teacher testimonials on dissemination of a web-based program to prevent smoking was tested in a group-randomized 2 x 2 factorial post-test-only design with 394 junior and senior high schools. Schools were assigned to condition by region served by local tobacco control coalitions."

"Visits to the 'Consider This' (CT) website were recorded. Teachers at 226 schools completed a post-test. More schools receiving the opinion leader letter had visits to the website by teachers (12%) than schools not receiving it (4%, P = 0.015). More teachers at schools receiving the...

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Source: Healthcare Finance, Tax and Law Weekly (2007-12-12)

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