The Effectiveness of Smoking Prevention Intervention with Peer Education Approach on Labor Children's Attitude Toward Smoking
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Introduction
Nowadays, cigarette smoking among developing countries and especially among adolescents has increased significantly. Labor children are identified as one of the at risk groups for smoking. In this study, the effectiveness of smoking prevention intervention with peer education approach on labor children's attitude toward smoking was studied.Methods
This study was a clinical trial without control group. All eligible labor children were recruited in the study in NGOs that provided services for labor children in south of Tehran. Using social network analysis, stars in participant's networks were identified and trained as the peer educators in 8 sessions of smoking prevention intervention. Then peer educators trained labor child members in their social networks. Data were collected using the attitude toward smoking scale prior to intervention, post-intervention, and at follow-up (i.e. 30 days after the intervention). T-test and repeated measures analysis of variance analysis was used to evaluate outcomes.Results
Forty one labor children participated in this research (peer educators (n=10) and peer groups (n=31)). The mean age of participants was 15/5 year in peer educators group and 14/33 in peer groups and most of them were male and had elementary education. Results showed that the general attitude toward smoking among labor children, compared with pre-intervention had been significantly negative (P=Conclusions
Smoking prevention intervention with peer education approach was effective on labor children's attitude toward smoking. Therefore, this intervention could be used for prevention of smoking among this group of children.Keywords:
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Persian
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Journal of Social Work, Volume:4 Issue: 14, 2016
Pages:
17 to 28
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