Participating schools, students will receive financial incentives
Posted: June 9, 2022
Stanford University is looking for middle and high schools, teachers, and students to evaluate its new Vaping Prevention Curriculum within its Tobacco Prevention Toolkit.
The Tobacco Prevention Toolkit is showing early evidence of being effective in changing students’ knowledge, attitudes, and vaping behavior, and the university needs your help to fully evaluate the effects of the new curriculum.
Participating schools, teachers, and students will receive the following incentives:
- Schools: $1,000 per school in the first year of the study, and $500 for each of the three years following
- Teachers: $25 per teacher (short implementation survey required)
- Students: $10 gift card per survey (2 short in-class surveys required)
- Participating schools become certified partners of the Stanford Tobacco Prevention Toolkit
The study will compare the effects of teaching students a vape protection curriculum from the Stanford Tobacco Prevention Toolkit with teaching students using their existing tobacco education curriculum.
Stanford will randomize schools into two groups: one that will teach a new version of the tobacco prevention curriculum, or teach the existing tobacco education curriculum while agreeing to teach the Stanford Tobacco Prevention Toolkit the following semester.
In Hawaii, youth vaping is at epidemic levels. According to the 2017 Youth Risk Behavior Survey, Hawaii has one of the highest rates of middle and high school usage in the nation at 15.7% and 25.5% respectively. Moreover, 27% of middle school students and a whopping 42% of high school students have tried e-cigarettes.
If you are interested in participating in this opportunity, please contact a study team member:
- David Cash, study coordinator, david.cash@stanford.edu, 415-250-7054
- Bonnie Halpern-Felsher, Ph.D., professor of pediatrics and principal investigator, bonnieh@standford.edu