# LONGITUDINAL EVALUATION OF A SCHOOL ANTI-SMOKING PROGRAM

> **NIH NIH R01** · FRED HUTCHINSON CANCER RESEARCH CENTER · 1987 · $667,200

## Abstract

The objective is to determine the extent to which the multi-year
implementation of a realistic multi-component school-based smoking
prevention intervention can reduce smoking prevalence in the junior high
years and maintain the reduced prevalence throughout and beyond high
school.  The intervention to be evaluated consists of the entire
intervention process, which includes coordination with state education
officials, teacher training, program monitoring, teacher feedback,
curriculum modification, and the curriculum itself.

The study population will be approximately 8,000 students in 40
geographically and demographically diverse high school feeder systems in
the State of Washington.  With the feeder system as the unit of
intervention, two consecutive cohorts in each of 20 experimental and 20
control feeder systems will be followed for endpoint determination through
and beyond high school.  Smoking behavior endpoints will be obtained in
grades 5, 7, 9, and 12, and two years after high school.

The methodology of randomized controlled clinical trials will be adapted to
this prevention study, with special attention given to address the dual
problems of contamination and follow-up inherent in prevention follow-up
studies.  Tracking methods, including follow-up data files, will be
established at the beginning of the study, and updated periodically, to
permit tracking and follow-up of cohort individuals who leave the feeder
system.

The intervention will be sustained throughout the entire period of
adolescent smoking onset, and will include early preparatory (to risk of
smoking onset) components starting in the 3rd grade.  The intervention
curriculum will be adapted from existing curriculum:  (1) the Project
CHOICE curriculum (grades 3-5), developed jointly by the Fred Hutchinson
Cancer Research Center and the State of Washington Office of the
Superitendent of Public Instruction; (2) the (Waterloo) Keep It Clean
curriculum (grades 6-9); and (3) the (Minnesota) Keep It Clean Ii
curriculum (grade 10).

The project has been developed collaboratively by the Fred Hutchinson
Cancer Research Center, the University of Washington School of Public
Health and Community Medicine, and the State of Washington Office of
Superintendent of Public Instruction.

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 3176346
- **Project number:** 5R01CA038269-04
- **Recipient organization:** FRED HUTCHINSON CANCER RESEARCH CENTER
- **SAM.gov UEI:** HMSNCM57QNR5
- **Principal Investigator:** ARTHUR V PETERSON
- **Activity code:** R01 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 1987
- **Award amount:** $667,200
- **Award type:** 5
- **Project period:** 1984-09-01 → 1989-08-31

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/3176346

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 3176346, LONGITUDINAL EVALUATION OF A SCHOOL ANTI-SMOKING PROGRAM (5R01CA038269-04). Retrieved via MORVS 2026-10-25 from https://api.morvs.ai/grant/nih/3176346. Licensed CC0.

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