A Qualitative Mediation Study to Evaluate a School-Based Tobacco Prevention Program in India (Project Mytri)

Bibliographic Data

ID2407403
AuthorsLewis Bate, Sheri Lewis Bate (Arizona State University, corresponding author), Melissa H Stigler (Michael & Susan Dell Center for Healthy Living, University of Texas School of Public Health, Austin, TX, USA), Marilyn S Thompson (0000-0002-4419-6290, Arizona State University), David P Mackinnon (0000-0003-0866-6010, Arizona State University), Monika Arora (0000-0001-9987-3933, Health Related Information Dissemination Amongst Youth (HRIDAY), New Delhi, India), Cheryl L Perry (0000-0003-4049-1206, Michael & Susan Dell Center for Healthy Living, University of Texas School of Public Health, Austin, TX, USA), K Srinath Reddy (0000-0003-3416-3548, Public Health Foundation of India)
Year2012
Volume24
Issue2
Pages194-215
Publication date2012-05-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueCAM (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1087-8513 • E-ISSN: 1552-3969
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/1525822x11420371
PMID27547129
OpenAlexW2104567185
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited23

Causal mediating processes were examined using qualitative methods to evaluate a tobacco-use prevention program for adolescents in India, Project MYTRI (Mobilizing Youth for Tobacco-Related Initiatives in India). Interviews were conducted with Project MYTRI leaders and staff persons. The focus of the interviews was to learn about the program implementation and to characterize how Project MYTRI classroom sessions altered student-level psychosocial risk factors (mediators) to prevent or reduce tobacco use among students in intervention schools in Delhi and Chennai. From qualitative analysis, key mediating variables were identified (students' tobacco knowledge, skills development, beliefs about tobacco, intentional beliefs, advocacy beliefs, and self-efficacy beliefs), a qualitative mediation path model was drawn, causal processes were described, and contextual influences (potential moderators) were explained. The qualitative findings complemented the results of statistical mediation analysis, yielding a detailed and contextualized description of how Project MYTRI affected students

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