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dc.contributor.authorChudzik, Karen P. Shaw.en_US
dc.date.accessioned2009-07-09T18:43:04Z
dc.date.available2009-07-09T18:43:04Z
dc.date.issued1995-07-09T18:43:04Z
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10464/2075
dc.description.abstractA review of literature revealed that the control of cigarette smoking could do more to improve health than any other single action in the field of preventive medicine. In Ontario, since 1989, both Public Health Units and Boards ofEducations have been mandated to provide educational studies related to tobacco use prevention. Even given this fact, there has been an increase in smoking behaviQurs at an earlier age and in females in particular. Smoking prevention progralns must use the most effective means to assist students to obtain the knowledge and skills required to remain or becom'e nonsmokers. In the Niagara Region, PAL smoking prevention programs are offered in some, but not all, schools. As a form of program evaluation, this research sought to determine if students who had PAL could answer correctly a greater number of smoking-related questions than students who did not have this program. Findings reported that students who had PAL in Grade 6 were able to correctly answer more knowledge-based questions (at a statistically significant level), could provide ways to refuse cigarettes at a greater rate, and were able to provide more reasons for remaining nonsmokers. Students who had smoking prevention programming re,ported smoking behavio'urs at a lower rate than those who did not receive this type of program.en_US
dc.language.isoengen_US
dc.publisherBrock Universityen_US
dc.subjectTobacco use--Treatment.en_US
dc.subjectYouth--Tobacco use.en_US
dc.titleStudents' knowledge about tobacco one year after receiving the PAL smoking prevention programen_US
dc.typeElectronic Thesis or Dissertationen
dc.degree.nameMaster of Educationen_US
dc.degree.levelMastersen_US
dc.contributor.departmentDepartment of Graduate and Undergraduate Studies in Educationen_US
dc.degree.disciplineFaculty of Educationen_US
refterms.dateFOA2021-07-16T12:27:41Z


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