Interventions
Category: Social Influences vs information.
Programme deliverer: Usual class teachers (all trained by research group)
Intervention: 3 programmes aimed at knowledge acquisition and behaviour change.Each programme based on four class sessions which had a distinctive active learning approach:
1. Health programme (biological effects of smoking, smoking and illnesses, smoking rates in Australia and worldwide, smoking as addiction, effects of smoking prevention/ cessation on health).
2. Fitness programme (biological effects of smoking, smoking and fitness, smoking and impaired sports ability, smoking among professional athletes, smoking and sporting image)
3. Social skills and stress management programme (smoking, self esteem, perceived maturity smoking as social behaviour, smoking and social confidence, media influences on smoking, stress and smoking, smoking and social confidence, life skills and resistance to peer pressure, stress management
Control: Non-randomised, from a separate, older study. No stated intervention