The school nurse at a public high school recently noticed an increase in students smoking before and after school. Using the community school model to reduce tobacco use among your students, which interventions are appropriate?

Question

(Select all that apply.)
A) Starting an after-school tobacco cessation program with the assistance of local representatives of the American Cancer Society
B) Having a local clinical oncologist speak at a PTA meeting about the hazards of tobacco use among children
C) Confronting groups of students while they are smoking with information regarding the school's smoking policy and the dangers of smoking
D) Promoting the community's "great smoke-out" smoking cessation event each year
E) Encouraging the school's administration to designate a single smoking area outside to limit nonsmokers' exposure to the smoke

Answer 1

Ans: A, B, D
Feedback:
One solution for the provision of comprehensive school health services is called the community school model. This model is a collaborative design that uses the resources of a community to provide structured preventive services such as after-school programs, parent outreach, and crisis intervention. These preventive services are designed to promote changes throughout the school environment. Confronting a group of smokers by yourself is not an example of collaboration or of drawing on community resources to promote changes throughout the school environment. Encouraging the designation of a smoking area, although it might benefit nonsmokers, will not decrease smoking among students and might even encourage it. All of the other examples demonstrate collaborative, community-based approaches to smoking cessation.