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. 2013 Apr 30;2013(4):CD001293. doi: 10.1002/14651858.CD001293.pub3

Schinke 1988.

Methods Country: USA. 
 Site: 2 Indian reservations in western Washington state 
 Focus: prevention of smoking, alcohol and drug use; assess the effects of a 10 session prevention programme. 
 Design: cluster RCT (excluded from analysis)
Participants Baseline: 137 
 Age: 11.8yrs
Gender: 54% F
Ethnicity: all Native Americans
Baseline smoking data: no data
Interventions Category: social influences vs. control
Programme deliverer: Native American counsellors
Intervention: 10 sessions; programme to learn bicultural competence skills taught by Native American counsellors. Communication, coping and discrimination skills, modelled, coached and praised turning down substance offers from peers without offence, taught self instruction and relaxation to help refuse offers of substances, rewarded refusals, anticipated temptations, predicted high‐risk situations, built networks with friends and family, homework supporting each others' refusals.
Control: No programme
Outcomes Definition of smoking: Self reported smoking in previous 14 days 
 Follow up: 6m
Notes Quality of intervention delivery: no process analysis
Statistical quality:
Was a power computation performed? No (n only 137)
Was an intention‐to‐treat analysis performed? Not stated
Was a correction for clustering made? No
Were appropriate statistical methods used? Comparisons at baseline by by ANOVA, for intervention effects over time MANOVA, "When univariate ANOVAS showed significant condition differences, posttest and follow‐up data were analysed by Tukey‐Kramer procedures for paired comparisons...".
Risk of bias
Bias Authors' judgement Support for judgement
Random sequence generation (selection bias) Unclear risk "After pre‐testing, subjects were randomly divided by reservation site into prevention and control conditions."
Method of randomisation not stated
Clusters: reservations
Cluster constraint: not stated
Baseline comparability: experimental and control groups were similar at baseline.
Allocation concealment (selection bias) Unclear risk No statement
Blinding of outcome assessment (detection bias) 
 All outcomes Unclear risk No statement
Incomplete outcome data (attrition bias) 
 All outcomes Low risk Attrition 8% at 6m with no differential attrition between groups
Selective reporting (reporting bias) Low risk No selective reporting