Rasmus Riad, Mara Westling Allodi, Eva Siljehag, Carina Wikman, Tamsin Ford, Sven Bölte
How I Feel About My School-Adaptation and Validation of an Educational Well-Being Measure among Young Children in Sweden
International journal of environmental research and public health
evaluate methods preventing young children experimenting tobacco determine cost effectiveness students n 1005 31 primary schools randomly selected higher gradelevels recruited partially randomized single blinded controlled trial seven groups schools randomly assigned combination teaching leaflet drama order modify students knowledge attitudes beliefs behaviour kab eighth group n 346 ten schools distantly separated former assigned control dropped comparison analysis lack randomness baseline mean standard deviation median age intervention groups 994 years 081 100 years n 669 baseline 1062 years 066 110 years n 397 12 months followup 66 ever used tobacco least median age seven years teaching health education school combined methods significantly better improving kab 2003 year postintervention occurrence experimentation smoking last 30 days dropped 92 12 p 000 equivalent 87 95 ci 78 93 reduction group exposed health education compared none leafletonly group numbers needed treat nnt 125 due costeffectiveness comparable child immunizations bds dollars 189 289 us dollars 1 15 per child contacted bds dollars 100 140 us dollars 50 70 capital investment resources per school experience could utilized routinely elementary schools