COMPUTERIZED TOBACCO RISK ASSESSMENT FOR ADOLESCENTS

描述：我们建议开发一个交互式多媒体节目，特别报道。该项目旨在为初中生提供烟草风险评估和教育工具，以增加对烟草的影响和个人使用烟草的风险，不使用烟草的意图以及避免使用烟草的自我效能的认识。特别报告将在一个50分钟的会议中提供，将包括：1)烟草基本知识测试和互动风险评估；2)媒介素养意识练习；3)关于烟草使用的短期和长期生理和心理影响的教育，包括向成瘾的进展；4)预防使用烟草的技能培训活动。第一阶段是利用早期青少年、父母、医生和其他烟草教育和预防领域专家的意见，为该计划制定结构和原型。所有的具体目标都已完成，制作了技术设计、工作演示光盘和补充辅助手册的大纲。第二阶段将包括制作一个完全可操作的特别报告光盘、可用性测试、程序有效性的现场测试和满意度测试。根据我们自己的知识以及与教育工作者和研究人员的广泛讨论，《特别报告》将率先使用最先进的技术来加强烟草教育。如果这样的项目在减少吸烟的危险行为和意图方面比传统的教育方法更有效，学校管理者和健康教育者可能会认为这是向初中生提供教育和预防信息的一种可取的、具有成本效益的方式。

DESCRIPTION: We propose development of an interactive multimedia program, Special Report. The program is designed to be offered as a tobacco risk assessment and educational tool for middle and junior high school students to increase knowledge about the effects of tobacco and personal risks for tobacco use, intention not to use tobacco, and self efficacy for avoiding tobacco use. Designed to be offered in a single 50 minute session, Special Report will consist of: 1) a basic tobacco knowledge test and interactive risk assessment; 2) media literacy awareness exercises; 3) education about the short- and long-term physiological and psychological effects of tobacco use, including the progression to addiction; and 4) skill building activities to prevent the use of tobacco. Phase I addressed development of a structure and prototype for this program using the input of early adolescents, parents, physicians and other experts in the area of tobacco education and prevention. All specific aims were accomplished, producing a technical design, working demo CD-ROM, and an outline of a supplemental facilitator manual, Phase II will involve production of a fully operational Special Report CD-ROM, usability testing, a field test of the effectiveness of the program, and satisfaction testing. Based on our own knowledge and extensive discussions with educators and researchers, Special Report will be pioneering in its use of state-of-the-art technology for enhancing tobacco education. If such a program demonstrated effectiveness in reducing risk behaviors and intent to use tobacco over traditional education approaches, school administrators and health educators would likely view it as a desirable and cost-effective way to offer education and prevention information to middle and junior high school students. PROPOSED COMMERCIAL APPLICATION: The commercial impact of this project is very promising. There are currently 12 million students in the target age range (middle and junior high school) for Special Report [NCES, 1999]. Simultaneously, the issue of tobacco prevention in this age group has become a focus of intense national concern, since youth are most vulnerable to initiating tobacco use during these early adolescent years. With funds from the recent tobacco settlement, more states are attempting to implement programs in this area. Yet, few empirically-based, effective programs geared toward early adolescents are available. If we were able to obtain only a small fraction of the middle and junior high schools in this country as customers, the revenues would be substantial.