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Health Education Research, Vol. 1, No. 3, 185-194, 1986
© 1986 Oxford University Press

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The television, school and family smoking prevention/cessation project. II. Formative evaluation of television segments by teenagers and parents – implications for parental involvement in drug education

Steve Sussman, Bonnie R. Brannon, Brian R. Flay1, Laura Gleason, Steve Senor, Debra F. Sobol, William B. Hansen and C. Anderson Johnson

Health Behavior Research Institute, University of Southern California 35 North Lake Avenue, Pacadena, CA 91101,USA

Correspondence to: 1To whom reprint requests should be sent

The present study assessed attitudes of 45 seventh graders and of an independent sample of 52 unrelated parents (of seventh grade students) regarding a mass media-enhanced social psychologically oriented cigarette smoking prevention program. The assessment represented a formative evaluation of family-involvement related variables to aid in the development of a future family-focused substance-abuse prevention program. The results were: (i)adults and youths expressed much interest in having parents be actively involved in prevention interventions; (ii) adults favored minimally assertive interaction strategies in family-oriented prevention strategies with their children, although they encouraged their children to be assertive regarding parental cessation efforts; (iii) two of the most interesting prevention components to adults (peer and media influences) were the least interesting components to youths; and (iv) learning of prevention material was consistent with the differential interest results, although parents generally knew the prevention knowledge item answers even at pretest. This study high-lighted the usefulness of a pretest-media presentation-posttest formative evaluation procedure with independent samples differing in family role status to help improved family-oriented drug education programming.


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