Contact information
Type
Scientific
Primary contact
Prof Laurence Moore
ORCID ID
Contact details
School of Social Sciences
Cardiff University
King Edward VII Ave
Cardiff
CF10 3WT
United Kingdom
+44 (0)29 208 75387
MooreL1@cf.ac.uk
Additional identifiers
EudraCT number
ClinicalTrials.gov number
Protocol/serial number
G9900538
Study information
Scientific title
Acronym
ASSIST (A Stop Smoking in Schools Trial)
Study hypothesis
1. To ascertain whether peer-leaders can be recruited and trained to reduce take-up of smoking among their peers and encourage those peers to maintain their non-smoking status
2. To ascertain whether those peer-leaders may also impact on smoking cessation among peers
3. To assess the costs of the intervention against a range of outcomes using a 'costs & consequences' approach
4. To undertake a process evaluation and produce an intervention manual
Ethics approval
Not provided at time of registration.
Study design
Randomised controlled trial
Primary study design
Interventional
Secondary study design
Randomised controlled trial
Trial setting
Not specified
Trial type
Not Specified
Patient information sheet
Condition
Public health, social medicine
Intervention
Smoking behaviour of Year 8 pupils, followed up for 2 years
Intervention type
Other
Phase
Not Specified
Drug names
Primary outcome measure
Change in smoking prevalence among the 'high risk' group (experimenters, ex-smokers and less than weekly smokers), change in prevalence in the year group. Smoking prevalence is operationalised as that proportion having smoking in the last 7 days.
Secondary outcome measures
Perception of norms regarding adolescent smoking, intention to quit.
Overall trial start date
01/01/2001
Overall trial end date
30/04/2005
Reason abandoned (if study stopped)
Eligibility
Participant inclusion criteria
Year 8 pupils in state secondary schools, where schools, parents and pupils agree to participation
Participant type
Patient
Age group
Child
Gender
Not Specified
Target number of participants
750
Participant exclusion criteria
Not provided at time of registration
Recruitment start date
01/01/2001
Recruitment end date
30/04/2005
Locations
Countries of recruitment
United Kingdom
Trial participating centre
School of Social Sciences
Cardiff
CF10 3WT
United Kingdom
Sponsor information
Organisation
Cardiff University (UK)
Sponsor details
Cardiff University
Main Building
Park Place
Cardiff
CF10 3XQ
United Kingdom
+44 (0)29 2087 4000
Sponsor type
University/education
Website
Funders
Funder type
Research council
Funder name
Medical Research Council (MRC) (UK)
Alternative name(s)
MRC
Funding Body Type
government organisation
Funding Body Subtype
Federal/National Government
Location
United Kingdom
Results and Publications
Publication and dissemination plan
Not provided at time of registration
Intention to publish date
Participant level data
Not provided at time of registration
Basic results (scientific)
Publication list
1. 2005 protocol: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15847695
2. 2008 results: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18468543
3. 2009 results in http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19684123
Publication citations
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Protocol
Starkey F, Moore L, Campbell R, Sidaway M, Bloor M, , Rationale, design and conduct of a comprehensive evaluation of a school-based peer-led anti-smoking intervention in the UK: the ASSIST cluster randomised trial [ISRCTN55572965]., BMC Public Health, 2005, 5, 43, doi: 10.1186/1471-2458-5-43.
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Results
Campbell R, Starkey F, Holliday J, Audrey S, Bloor M, Parry-Langdon N, Hughes R, Moore L, An informal school-based peer-led intervention for smoking prevention in adolescence (ASSIST): a cluster randomised trial., Lancet, 2008, 371, 9624, 1595-1602, doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(08)60692-3.
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Results
Starkey F, Audrey S, Holliday J, Moore L, Campbell R, Identifying influential young people to undertake effective peer-led health promotion: the example of A Stop Smoking In Schools Trial (ASSIST)., Health Educ Res, 2009, 24, 6, 977-988, doi: 10.1093/her/cyp045.