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Filter by:Smoking Prevention Program is a pilot exploratory study with a standardized curriculum based on the Tobacco Prevention Toolkit from Stanford University and translated into Polish by the members of Students Scientific Association of Oncology at Wroclaw Medical University. The program will assess the effectiveness of a school-based smoking prevention curricula keeping children as never smokers and test the feasibility of engaging medical students and teachers in implementing and evaluating a validated program on smoking prevention within the Polish School System. The research protocols, methods and data collection instruments of a standardized classroom based valid tobacco prevention program from Stanford University will be used for the study. The smoking prevention program is centred on drug resistance, personal self-management and increasing social skills. The program increases knowledge and uses coaching and practice to provide students with the skills to resist social pressures around cigarette use. The secondary outcome of this study is to determine the change in attitudes by Polish Medical Student regarding Cancer Prevention Research. During Smoking Prevention Program workshops, the 5-Session Curriculum for primary schools will be translated, applied and evaluated for polish students. This community-based pilot will engage medical students, the local school district and the local health authority. The Educational program meets the requirements set by Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Guidelines for School Health Programs to Prevent Tobacco Use and Addiction. Following parental consent, the program will be implemented with all 7th and 8th grade students (children age 12-15 years) from the Elementary School in Tyniec Mały. This project is supported by the Head of Lower Silesian Oncology Center, the Head of Department of Oncology of Wroclaw Medical University, the Health and Social Affairs Department of City of Wroclaw and under the patronage of the Lower Silesia Governor's Office, the Polish Society of Oncology, the Polish Society of Public Health, the Lower Silesian Department of Polish Society of Cardiology and the European Association for Cancer Education (EACE). Smoking Prevention Program is funded by the READS Grant Program from the American Association for Cancer Education (AACE).
This is a two-arm, cluster randomized trial designed to to evaluate the effectiveness of an e-cigarette curriculum [called the CATCH My Breath (CMB) program] in delaying the onset of e-cigarette use in middle schoolers. Schools will be assigned to either the CMB program or usual care, which is Texas Education Agency (TEA) required tobacco prevention program. 10 schools will be assigned to each arm arm, and each school will include 70 students in the study, for a total of 700 students per arm and 1400 total students in the study. Both programs will be administered to participating students over 3 years.
The investigators aim to (1) establish a methodology for the evaluation of the biodistribution of radio-labeled nicotine following e-cigarette use, (2) determine the oral/pulmonary distribution of nicotine following e-cigarette use, and (3) determine the lowest required dose using the new digital PET/CT technology to provide detailed or accurate oral/pulmonary distribution data following e-cigarette use. Potential participants will be identified using advertisements such as brochures and online social media postings. After participants are identified, their eligibility will be determined using survey tools. All eligible participants will first have a screening visit at the WCIBMI for study participation. During this initial visit, subjects will be informed about the study in detail, and the relevant consent form will be reviewed and signed. If the participant agrees to participate, they will go through a full dress rehearsal. Up to 10 volunteers will only participate in the dress rehearsal. All other volunteers (30) will have a dress rehearsal without radiation exposure on day 1, and then on a second day, they will participate in the full imaging study using 11C-nicotine. During the imaging study, S-nicotine will be labeled with 11C and placed in the cartridge of an e-cigarette. There will be two dose groups: (A) 3 mCi dosage or (B) 9 mCi doses. The investigators intend to use dose level A; however, if it does not lead to the expected results, an alternate dose level as an option is needed, which is the 9 mCi (B) dose level. Subjects will take a maximum of 10 puffs (1 puff per 30 seconds) from the e-cigarette while positioned in the PET/CT system. Dynamic PET/CT imaging will be performed for a maximum of 60 minutes following inhalation. The subject will be placed in the PET camera in order to generate axial images of the following regions: head/neck (e.g., brain, oral cavity, and throat) and thorax (e.g., trachea, lungs). From the PET/CT images, quantitative radioactivity deposition will be determined, and the biodistribution and uptake/clearance will be evaluated. PET data will be acquired in listmode and subsequently used for simulation to determine the potentially lowest dose feasible using the next generation digital PET/CT technology.