A school-based peer-led smoking prevention intervention with extracurricular activities: The LILT-LdP cluster randomized controlled trial design and study population

Tumori

Volumn 99, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 572-577

  Bosi, Sandra ^a   Gorini, Giuseppe ^b   Tamelli, Marco ^a   Monti, Claudia ^c   Storani, Simone ^a   Carreras, Giulia ^b   Martini, Andrea ^b   Allara, Elias ^d   Angelini, Paola ^e   Faggiano, Fabrizio ^d  

^a Lega Italiana per la Lotta Contro i Tumori (LILT)   (Italy)

^b Cancer Prevention and Research Institute ISPO   (Italy)

^c ISTITUTO ONCOLOGICO ROMAGNOLO   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF EASTERN PIEDMONT   (Italy)

^e Public Health Service   (Italy)

Author keywords

Cluster randomized control trial; School based prevention; Tobacco; Youth

Indexed keywords

EID: 84893514761     PISSN: 03008916     EISSN: 20382529     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1700/1377.15304     Document Type: Article

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