[Effectiveness of School-Based Life Skills Programmes on Secondary Schoolchildren in a High Risk Sample]

Gesundheitswesen. 2015 Sep:77 Suppl 1:S76-7. doi: 10.1055/s-0033-1334890. Epub 2013 Sep 19.
[Article in German]

Abstract

Based on a randomized controlled multicentre-design the effect of school-based life skills programmes was investigated in a sample of 102 classes of secondary schools (Hauptschulen) in northern Germany. Self-reports of 1,057 pupils showed positive effects of the programmes on the reduction of smoking. Pupils' life skills improved in the teachers' assessment. The social and the migration status did not moderate the results. Both pupils and teachers evaluated the programmes very positive.

Publication types

  • Randomized Controlled Trial

MeSH terms

  • Adolescent
  • Child
  • Female
  • Germany / epidemiology
  • Healthy Lifestyle
  • Humans
  • Male
  • Program Evaluation
  • Risk Factors
  • Risk Reduction Behavior*
  • School Health Services / statistics & numerical data*
  • Schools / statistics & numerical data*
  • Smoking / epidemiology*
  • Smoking Prevention*
  • Social Class
  • Transients and Migrants / psychology
  • Transients and Migrants / statistics & numerical data
  • Treatment Outcome
  • Vulnerable Populations / psychology
  • Vulnerable Populations / statistics & numerical data*