ERIC Number: EJ885482
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2004
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Adolescent Smoking Cessation: Development of a School Nurse Intervention
Hamilton, Greg; O'Connell, Meghan; Cross, Donna
Journal of School Nursing, v20 n3 p169-174 2004
The purpose of this study was to examine the feasibility of a range of strategies to engage and to enhance secondary school nurse involvement in teenage smoking prevention and cessation. School nurses were willing to assist students to quit smoking, but they felt unprepared. Information provided by nurses involved in a three-stage review, pilot-testing, and trial design resulted in the development of a resource for nurses. This resource comprised individual student approaches (brief intervention based on motivational interviewing and written activities designed to help students examine their smoking behavior), approaches to assist parents (letter of support for parents of students who smoke), and school newsletter items. Each component of the resource was found by school nurses to be appropriate, useful, and complementary to their other school-wide approaches to assist adolescents to quit smoking. Nurses also reported an interest to expand or to enhance their smoking cessation role in the school.
Descriptors: Intervention, Smoking, School Nurses, Interviews, Adolescents, Health Promotion, Prevention, Teaching Methods, Parent Participation, Newsletters, School Health Services, Professional Training, Cooperative Planning, Program Effectiveness, Counseling Techniques, Foreign Countries, Secondary School Students
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Evaluative
Education Level: Secondary Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Australia
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