Project Sixteen

An Evidence-Based Practice

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Description

Project SixTeen is a community intervention designed to prevent adolescent tobacco use. The comprehensive community intervention targets key social influences on adolescent tobacco use. Intervention components include three modules: media advocacy, youth anti-tobacco, and family communications. These components were designed to mobilize parental influences for the prevention of adolescent smoking. The media advocacy module provides a set of strategies for publicizing the tobacco problem in the community and to encourage adults to support efforts to prevent adolescent tobacco use. Activities include newspaper articles, presentations to local groups, and public service announcements. The youth anti-tobacco module presents a menu of activities for youth in the community including creative activities (sidewalk art, T-shirt design), trade-in events (tobacco promotion items traded for anti-tobacco items), academic events, and games. The family communications module consists of activities to get parents to communicate with their children including distribution of pamphlets and parent-child quizzes.

Project SixTeen was designed to supplement school-based tobacco-prevention programs with a community intervention in order to further impact adolescent smoking behavior.

Goal / Mission

The goal of Project SixTeen is to reduce the use of adolescent tobacco use by utilizing a comprehensive community intervention approach.

Results / Accomplishments

A randomized controlled trial was conducted to evaluate the effectiveness of the intervention. Eight pairs of Oregon communities were assigned to either a school-based intervention program or a community intervention (Project SixTeen) in addition to the school-based program. Pairs of communities were matched on socioeconomic status and population. The smoking prevalence decreased more in Project SixTeen communities than school-based only communities. In particular, the smoking prevalence for boys in grade 9 decreased significantly in Project SixTeen communities from 13.8% to 9.8%, but did not change significantly in school-based only communities.

About this Promising Practice

Organization(s)
Oregon Research Institute
Primary Contact
Oregon Research Institute
1776 Millrace Drive
Eugene, Oregon
97403
(541) 484-2123
http://www.ori.org/
Topics
Health / Alcohol & Drug Use
Health / Adolescent Health
Organization(s)
Oregon Research Institute
Source
Child Trends
Date of publication
2000
Geographic Type
Rural
Location
Oregon
For more details
http://www.childtrends.org/?programs=project-sixte...
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC17483...
Target Audience
Teens, Families

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An Evidence-Based Practice meets the following HCI criteria:

  1. The program description includes at a minimum: the sponsoring organization, program goals, program implementation steps, and outcomes that have demonstrated program success in achieving the program goal in one or more localities.
  2. The results from an evaluation of the program include quantitative measures showing improvement in the outcome(s) of interest after the implementation of the program (i.e. increase in smoking cessation, not just the delivery of a smoking cessation program). The outcome measure(s) is/are compared at relevant time periods before and after the intervention or program implementation. Alternatively, the evaluation study compares the outcome(s) between an intervention group and an appropriate control group.
  3. The study is of peer-review quality and presents numbers in a scientific manner; measurements of precision and reliability are included (e.g. confidence intervals, standard errors), results from statistical tests show a significant difference or change in the outcome measure(s), and relevant point estimates and p-values are presented. Note: if the results from an evaluation of a program are presented in a scientific manner and the outcome measure is improved compared to the baseline measurement or the control group but the difference is not statistically significant, the practice is classified as effective and not evidence-based.