Lucas Böttcher, Sascha Wald, Tom Chou
Mathematical Characterization of Private and Public Immune Receptor Sequences
Bulletin of mathematical biology
followup study aimed assess effectiveness smoke exercise antismoking preventive health education program program based theory planned behavior supplemented life skills teaching targeted high school students intervention comprised ten onehour online sessions administered physical education instructors study cohort comprised 222 students 109 boys 113 girls 11 secondary schools average age 1642 136 years data collection involved pre postintervention selfassessment questionnaires examined variables included attitudes towards smoking intention smoke subjective norm perceived behavioral control pbc knowledge smoking smoking behavior exercise behavior attitudes toward programs implementation satisfaction program separate paired samples ttest revealed significant improvement students knowledge smoking t217 5605 p 0001 038 perceived behavioral control t220 2166 p 005 015 following intervention however significant changes observed remaining variables addition students overall satisfaction implementation present health education program high 572 139 findings suggest health education smoking prevention intervention incorporates techniques strategies influence perceived behavioral control variable emphasizing students strong interest educationally theorized programs integrating technology design future studies consider examination tobacco control strategies within high school context