A skills training approach to smoking prevention among hispanic youth

Abstract

The present study was designed to test the feasibility, acceptability, and effectiveness of a 15-session smoking prevention intervention with a predominantly hispanic (74%) sample of seventh-grade students (N = 471) in eight urban schools in the New York area. The smoking prevention curriculum teaches social resistance skills within the context of a broader intervention promoting general personal and social competence and was implemented in this study by regular classroom teachers. Results of logistic regression analyses provided preliminary evidence of the efficacy of this type of smoking prevention strategy with urban minority youth when implemented with a reasonable degree of fidelity. The significance of these findings is that they provide support for the generalizability of an approach previously found to be effective with white middle-class populations to a predominantly hispanic inner-city population.

Two studies of proximal outcomes and implementation quality of universal preventive interventions in a community–university collaboration context

“…In addition, one of the interventions studied for this article~Life Skills Training! has been extensively evaluated among urban and minority adolescents~Botvin et al, 1992;Botvin, Dusenbury, Baker, James-Ortiz, & Kerner, 1989;Botvin, Schinke, Epstein, Diaz, & Botvin, 1995!, but not in a predominantly rural population.…”

Randomized Trial of Reduced-Nicotine Standards for Cigarettes

“…These studies have provided evidence for the effectiveness of booster sessions after the initial program delivery (Botvin et al 1983) and have compared the use of peers and teachers as pro gram facilitators (Botvin et al 1990b). Other studies have replicated the short-term effectiveness of the pro gram with African American and Hispanic adolescents (Botvin et al 1989a(Botvin et al ,b, 1992. Components of the pro gram also appear to have had positive effects when implemented outside the context of a research project (Bruvold 1990).…”

Needs and readiness assessments: Tools for promoting community-university engagement with Aboriginal communities

“…The impetus for the work with the Métis community also grew out of an earlier successful collaboration between researchers from the University of Alberta and several First Nations communities in Alberta on the delivery and evaluation of an evidence-based, culturally adapted substance abuse and violence prevention program (Baydala et al 2009(Baydala et al , 2011aBaydala, Worrell & Fletcher 2011b) based on the Botvin Life Skills Program (Botvin et al 1989Griffin et al 2003). Within these studies, a multi-method approach consisting of quantitative surveys and qualitative focus groups and interviews showed positive impacts on children's refusal skills, self-belief and knowledge of the negative effects of drug and alcohol use.…”