Ill Effects of Smoking: Baseline Knowledge among School Children and Implementation of the “AntE Tobacco” Project
Introduction. Cigarette smoking contributes to the deaths of more than 400,000 Americans annually. Each day >3,000 children and adolescents become regular smokers. This paper details a new antitobacco educational program titled “AntE Tobacco” Method. Children in grades 1–3 were administered a 10-...
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| author | Salim Surani Raghu Reddy Amy E. Houlihan Brenda Parrish Gina L. Evans-Hudnall Kalpalatha Guntupalli |
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| description | Introduction. Cigarette smoking contributes to the deaths of more than 400,000 Americans annually. Each day >3,000 children and adolescents become regular smokers. This paper details a new antitobacco educational program titled “AntE Tobacco”
Method. Children in grades 1–3 were administered a 10-item questionnaire to ascertain their baseline knowledge about the ill effects of smoking, shown an educational cartoon video depicting the ill effects of tobacco, and given a story book based on the video. At the end of video, children were administered a questionnaire to determine short-term recall of the antitobacco educational objectives of the program. Four to 6 weeks later, the children were then administered a follow-up survey to determine long-term retention of the anti tobacco educational program. Result. Eighty two percent of the children answered the outcome questions correctly immediately following the video. At follow-up, 4–6 weeks later, 83% of children answered all questions correctly.
Conclusion. The anti tobacco education program used in this study effectively conveyed most of the educational objectives. The results of this study indicate that a multimedia (i.e., video and book) educational program can be used to educate and reinforce anti tobacco messages. This program may be very useful as a part of a comprehensive anti tobacco curriculum in school systems. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-2944d3b73e064c80a84d4e4815a551772025-02-03T05:54:20ZengWileyInternational Journal of Pediatrics1687-97401687-97592011-01-01201110.1155/2011/584589584589Ill Effects of Smoking: Baseline Knowledge among School Children and Implementation of the “AntE Tobacco” ProjectSalim Surani0Raghu Reddy1Amy E. Houlihan2Brenda Parrish3Gina L. Evans-Hudnall4Kalpalatha Guntupalli5Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine, Department of Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine Houston and Texas A&M University, 613 Elizabeth Street, Suite 813, Corpus Christi, TX 78404, USADepartment of Medicine, University of Arkansas, 4301 West Markhan Street, Suite 555, Little Rock, AR 72205, USADepartment of Psychology, Texas A&M University, 6300 Ocean Drive, Unit 5827, Corpus Christi, TX 78412, USAPulmonary Associates of Corpus Christi, 613 Elizabeth Street, Suite 813, Corpus Christi, TX 78404, USADepartment of Medicine-Chronic Disease, Baylor College of Medicine, One Baylor Plaza, Houston, TX 77030, USAPulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine, Department of Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, 1709 Dryden Road, Suite 9.70, Houston, TX 77030, USAIntroduction. Cigarette smoking contributes to the deaths of more than 400,000 Americans annually. Each day >3,000 children and adolescents become regular smokers. This paper details a new antitobacco educational program titled “AntE Tobacco” Method. Children in grades 1–3 were administered a 10-item questionnaire to ascertain their baseline knowledge about the ill effects of smoking, shown an educational cartoon video depicting the ill effects of tobacco, and given a story book based on the video. At the end of video, children were administered a questionnaire to determine short-term recall of the antitobacco educational objectives of the program. Four to 6 weeks later, the children were then administered a follow-up survey to determine long-term retention of the anti tobacco educational program. Result. Eighty two percent of the children answered the outcome questions correctly immediately following the video. At follow-up, 4–6 weeks later, 83% of children answered all questions correctly. Conclusion. The anti tobacco education program used in this study effectively conveyed most of the educational objectives. The results of this study indicate that a multimedia (i.e., video and book) educational program can be used to educate and reinforce anti tobacco messages. This program may be very useful as a part of a comprehensive anti tobacco curriculum in school systems.http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2011/584589 |
| spellingShingle | Salim Surani Raghu Reddy Amy E. Houlihan Brenda Parrish Gina L. Evans-Hudnall Kalpalatha Guntupalli Ill Effects of Smoking: Baseline Knowledge among School Children and Implementation of the “AntE Tobacco” Project International Journal of Pediatrics |
| title | Ill Effects of Smoking: Baseline Knowledge among School Children and Implementation of the “AntE Tobacco” Project |
| title_full | Ill Effects of Smoking: Baseline Knowledge among School Children and Implementation of the “AntE Tobacco” Project |
| title_fullStr | Ill Effects of Smoking: Baseline Knowledge among School Children and Implementation of the “AntE Tobacco” Project |
| title_full_unstemmed | Ill Effects of Smoking: Baseline Knowledge among School Children and Implementation of the “AntE Tobacco” Project |
| title_short | Ill Effects of Smoking: Baseline Knowledge among School Children and Implementation of the “AntE Tobacco” Project |
| title_sort | ill effects of smoking baseline knowledge among school children and implementation of the ante tobacco project |
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