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August 2004, Vol 94, No. 8 | American Journal of Public Health 1293
© 2004 American Public Health Association

LETTER

SOCIAL NETWORKS AND PEER EDUCATION

William H. Wiist, DHSc, MPH, MS

William H. Wiist is a public health consultant.

Correspondence: Requests for reprints should be addressed to William H. Wiist, DHSc, MPH, MS, 5 Poplar Springs Dr, Mauldin, SC 29662 (e-mail: whwiist@yahoo.com).

Because this article has no abstract, we have provided an extract of the first 100 words of the full text and any section headings.

By testing the social-network method of group assignment and peer leader selection in a randomized trial design with a large number of classrooms and schools, Valente et al.1 made an important contribution to the field of peer-led adolescent tobacco use prevention. My colleagues and I recommended such a research design as a follow-up to our similar 2-year pilot research project2–7 with 347 sixth-grade students in 7 schools in which we tested the effectiveness of using social-network analysis to select peer leaders and to form groups for instruction in a peer-led curriculum to prevent smoking.

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