Evaluation of the Young People and Smoking Cessation Pilot Projects
In 1998 ASH Scotland and the Health Education Board for Scotland (HEBS) published a joint Smoking Cessation Policy for Scotland.
One of the main recommendations was that Smoking Cessation initiatives aimed at young people should be piloted and evaluated prior to the development of a national smoking cessation strategy for young people.
Aims of the Pilot Programme
The main aims of the Young People and Smoking Cessation Pilot Programme are:
- To identify acceptable and potentially effective approaches to helping young smokers to quit.
- To enhance the knowledge, skills and confidence of young people to support future attempts to quit smoking.
The Youth Smoking Evaluation Consortium
Health Scotland commissioned an external evaluation team (The Youth Smoking Evaluation Consortium) to assess the effectiveness of the programme as a whole, working across the funded Pilot Projects.
The Consortium is made up of staff members of The Research Unit in Health, Behaviour and Change (RUHBC) (external link) and Public Health Sciences at the University of Edinburgh (UoE), Scottish Health Feedback (SHF) and Partners in Evaluation (PiE).
About the Evaluation
The main aim of the external evaluation is to assess the effectiveness of the Pilot Programme as a whole.
To do this, the Consortium is looking at the effectiveness of each of the different Pilot initiatives in terms of smoking cessation, taking into account the settings/circumstances of projects, the mechanisms of change and the characteristics of users.
The external evaluation combines both outcome and process evaluation.
Further information will be posted as it becomes available.
Smoking Cessation Pilot Project final report