Does smoking within an individual's peer group affect intervention effectiveness? An evaluation of the Smoke-Free Class Competition among Swiss adolescents

Preventive Medicine

Volumn 65, Issue , 2014, Pages 52-57

  Stucki, Stephanie ^a   Kuntsche, Emmanuel ^a,b   Archimi, Aurélie ^a   Kuntsche, Sandra ^a  

^a ADDICTION SWITZERLAND   (Switzerland)

^b RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Evaluation; Peer smoking; School based prevention; Smoking

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADOLESCENT SMOKING; ARTICLE; EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PEER GROUP; PEER PRESSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGRAM EFFECTIVENESS; REINFORCEMENT; SCHOOL HEALTH SERVICE; SMOKING BAN; SMOKING CESSATION PROGRAM; SMOKING HABIT; SWITZERLAND; EPIDEMIOLOGY; EVALUATION STUDY; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PREVALENCE; PREVENTION AND CONTROL; PROGRAM EVALUATION; PSYCHOLOGY; SMOKING; SOCIAL NORM; STANDARDS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

ADOLESCENT; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PEER GROUP; PREVALENCE; PROGRAM EVALUATION; SCHOOL HEALTH SERVICES; SMOKING; SOCIAL NORMS; SWITZERLAND;

EID: 84900468719     PISSN: 00917435     EISSN: 10960260     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ypmed.2014.04.018     Document Type: Article

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