Abstract :
Objective: To assess the longitudinal relationship between tobacco use by family
members, peers and role models on tobacco use behavior of adolescents living in low
socio-economic communities of Delhi, India.
Methods: Project ACTIVITY (Advancing Cessation of Tobacco in Vulnerable Indian
Tobacco Consuming Youth), a community-based cluster-randomized trial. Adolescents
(n=1720) belonging to low socio-economic status from control communities of Project
ACTIVITY, including resettlement colonies and adjacent Jhuggi-Jhopris (JJs), who were
non-tobacco users at baseline and participated in all the three repeated surveys(2009,
2010, 2011). The main outcome measure in the study was current tobacco use at the
endline. Tobacco use by family members, friends and role models was measured at
baseline.
Keyword :
Tobacco, Adolescents, Familial influence, Low socio-economic status, Community, Tobacco cessation, Tobacco use prevention.