فهرست نشریات علمی دسترسی آزاد ایران

BACKGROUND: Studies have found that nearly 90% of the first use of tobacco takes place beforehigh school graduation (teenagers) and training discussion due to prevention can be useful, therefore,here, we aimed to determine the effects of training on awareness of cigarette outcomes (physicaland psychological) in male teenagers.MATERIALS AND METHODS: We conducted an interventional study using Solomon’s four‑groupplan, which used a two‑stage cluster sampling in four groups (two experimental groups and twocontrol groups). The three sessions of at least 2 h of education intervention including visual displayingusing photo, film, and short scientific texts were held for the interventional group. After 1 month, allfour groups took posttest, and research groups were followed up after 8 months of intervention. Alldata were analyzed using one‑way analysis of variance and covariance in SPSS.RESULTS: According to the results, the mean of posttest scores had increased rather than pretestscores, and generally, a significant difference was observed (P ≤ 0.001). These results weresignificant in the aspect of both physical and psychological outcomes awareness. The differencebetween the mean of scores in follow‑up period and posttest was not statistically significant, and itshows training retention after 8 months (P < 0.666).CONCLUSIONS: It can be concluded that through the training, it is possible to increase the awarenessof teenagers about physical and psychological outcomes of cigarette smoking that this can have animportant role in smoking prevention.