Attempting to lessen chewing tobacco addiction amongst young male athletes

Smokeless Tobacco Intervention for Adolescent Athletes

Community Need

Males Overall0.00%

2.00%

4.00%

6.00%

8.00%

10.00%

12.00%0.112

0.064

0.0390.025

0.01 0.008

2012 Smokeless tobacco use among US high school athletes

Current Use of Smokeless TobaccoCurrent Use of US SnusCurrent Use of Dissolvables

http://www.cdc.gov/tobacco/data_statistics/fact_sheets/smokeless/use_us/#smokeless

Community Need Data

Logical Approach

Caria, Bellocco, Zambon, et al. (2009) found that the daily use of snus among Swedish adolescents, traditionally low, in recent years showed rising trends.

Horn, Gao, Dino, and Kamal-Bahl (2000) found information leading to the conclusion that there is a definite need to focus on the cessation efforts of youths. In detail, emphasizing different factors or issues for different tobacco use categories.

Nelson, Mowery, Tomar, et al. (2006) wrote an article suggesting that ongoing prevention and cessation efforts are needed in order to reduce smokeless tobacco use among adolescents.

Logical Approach Lit Review

Caria, Maria P., Rino Bellocco, Antonella Zambon, Nicholas J. Horton and Maria R. Galanti. 2009. "Overweight and Perception of Overweight as Predictors of Smokeless Tobacco use and of Cigarette Smoking in a Cohort of Swedish Adolescents." Addiction 104(4):661-668.

Horn, Kimberly A., Xin Gao, Geri A. Dino and Sachin Kamal-Bahl. 2000. "Determinants of Youth Tobacco use in

West Virginia: A Comparison of Smoking and Smokeless Tobacco use." American Journal of Drug & Alcohol Abuse 26(1):125.

Nelson, David E., Paul Mowery, Scott Tomar, Stephen Marcus, Gary Giovino and Luhua Zhao. 2006. "Trends in Smokeless Tobacco use among Adults and Adolescents in the United States." American Journal of Public Health 96(5):897-905.

Logical Approach Works Cited

Independent samples t-test was used for the means of those in the program, compared to those not in the program.

Linear regression was used to test the correlation of the variables.

Both of these also found and tested the significance of the results.

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