Table 3.
Primary outcomes: changes in the alcohol and tobacco consumption among adolescents.
| Primary outcomes | Comparison group (n = 227) |
P | Intervention group (n = 235) |
P | ANCOVA |
P | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Baseline | End-line | Change (95% CI) | Baseline | End-line | Change (95% CI) | Net change (95% CI) | ||||
| n (%) | n (%) | |||||||||
| Current alcohol users | 11 (4.8) | 10 (4.9) | 0.1 (−3, 3) | 0.9 | 18 (8) | 4 (1.7) | −6.2 (−10, −2) | 0.005 | −5 (−9, −0.007) | 0.02 |
| Current smokers | 6 (2.6) | 7 (3.6) | 0.9 (−2, 4) | 0.5 | 7 (3) | 8 (4) | 1.0 (−3, 5) | 0.6 | 0.3 (−4, 5) | 0.8 |
| Current tobacco chewers | 5 (2.2) | 3 (1.5) | −0.7 (−3, 1) | 0.5 | 20 (9) | 2 (1) | −8 (−10, −4) | <0.001 | −1.3 (−4, 1) | 0.4 |
Current alcohol use: More than one drink in the past thirty days (one drink-350 ml of beer/150 ml wine/44 ml distilled whisky). Current smokers: Smoked in the past 30 days. Current tobacco chewers: Use any chewable tobacco such as gutkha, pan-masala, chaini-khaini, etc., in the past thirty days.