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Percentage Correct Responses1 to Survey Items on Knowledge of Short-Term Effects and Attitudes about Tobacco Use Among a Pooled 19 School Aggregate of 5th Grade Students in Western New York State who Received a Tobacco Prevention Program Intervention During the 1998–1999 School Year. |
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| Survey Item: |
Baseline Survey (Pre-Test) (N = 1596) |
Evaluation Survey (Immediate Post-Test) (N = 1438) |
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%2 |
p-value |
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| Knowledge of short-term effects of tobacco: |
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| (1) Smoking causes bad breath ..................... |
98.9 |
100 |
p = 0.0005 |
| (2) Smokers have yellow teeth and fingers ............ |
76.9 |
96.7 |
p < 0.0001 |
| (3) Low tar cigarettes are safe ..................... |
93.0 |
96.7 |
p = 0.0004 |
| (4) Smokers have clean smelling clothes ............. |
90.0 |
94.5 |
p < 0.0001 |
| (5) Smoking decreases the amount of air that gets into your lungs ........................ |
90.0 |
92.5 |
p = 0.0036 |
| (6) Smoking 1 pack of cigarettes a day costs several hundred dollars per year.................. |
86.6 |
93.4 |
p = 0.0002 |
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| Attitude about tobacco use: |
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| (7) People who use tobacco are popular and glamorous... |
94.3 |
94.7 |
N.S. |
| (8) Some people start to use tobacco because their friends do ............................... |
95.6 |
97.5 |
p = 0.0223 |
| (9) Smoking is relaxing .......................... |
89.9 |
89.4 |
N.S. |
| (10) Advertising tells the truth about the effects of tobacco use. ........................... |
80.0 |
87.3 |
p = 0.0162 |
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1Proportions were compared at the School Level (N = 19), using Wilcoxon-Matched Pairs/Signed Rank Tests. P-values were identified as significant if they were less than or equal to .05, thus rejecting the null hypothesis (that the Intervention had No Effect); n.s. = not significant. 2Percentages shown are the Medians, which summarize the distribution of correct responses by school. | |||
Mahoney et al. BMC Family Practice 2002 3:3 doi:10.1186/1471-2296-3-3 |
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