Key result
A 20-session school-based cardiovascular risk-reduction intervention improved risk factor knowledge and reduced graduation to regular smoking (5.6% vs 10.3%) compared with control at 2 months.
Why the study?
Does a 20-session school-based risk-reduction intervention improve cardiovascular risk factor knowledge, behaviors, and physiological measures in tenth graders?
RCT (n=1,447)
Cluster randomized
Yes
Does a 20-session school-based risk-reduction intervention improve cardiovascular risk factor knowledge, behaviors, and physiological measures in tenth graders?
Absolute Event Rate: 5.6% vs 10.3%
A 20-session school-based cardiovascular risk-reduction intervention successfully improves health knowledge, behaviors, and physiological risk factors in adolescents.
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Supports school-based programs to prevent adolescent smoking uptake; extends RCT evidence for early cardiovascular risk education.
Joel D. Killen (1988) conducted an RCT in Cardiovascular disease risk (n=1,447). Cardiovascular disease risk-reduction intervention vs. Control was evaluated on Graduation to regular smoking among baseline experimental smokers. A 20-session school-based cardiovascular risk-reduction intervention improved risk factor knowledge and reduced graduation to regular smoking (5.6% vs 10.3%) compared with control at 2 months.
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