A Qualitative Mediation Study to Evaluate a School-Based Tobacco Prevention Program in India (Project MYTRI)

S. Lewis Bate, Melissa H. Stigler, Marilyn Thompson, David Mackinnon, Monika Arora, Cheryl L. Perry, K. Srinath Reddy

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Abstract

Causal mediating processes were examined using qualitative methods to evaluate a tobacco-use prevention program for adolescents in India, Project MYTRI (Mobilizing Youth for Tobacco-Related Initiatives in India). Interviews were conducted with Project MYTRI leaders and staff persons. The focus of the interviews was to learn about the program implementation and to characterize how Project MYTRI classroom sessions altered student-level psychosocial risk factors (mediators) to prevent or reduce tobacco use among students in intervention schools in Delhi and Chennai. From qualitative analysis, key mediating variables were identified (students' tobacco knowledge, skills development, beliefs about tobacco, intentional beliefs, advocacy beliefs, and self-efficacy beliefs), a qualitative mediation path model was drawn, causal processes were described, and contextual influences (potential moderators) were explained. The qualitative findings complemented the results of statistical mediation analysis, yielding a detailed and contextualized description of how Project MYTRI affected students.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)194-215
Number of pages22
JournalField Methods
Volume24
Issue number2
DOIs
StatePublished - May 2012

Keywords

  • India
  • adolescents
  • mediation analysis
  • psychosocial risk factors
  • qualitative research
  • tobacco prevention

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Anthropology

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