Brinker, Titus J., Alfitian, Jonas, Seeger, Werner ORCID: 0000-0003-1946-0894, Groneberg, David A., von Kalle, Christof, Enk, Alexander H., Herth, Felix J. F., Kreuter, Michael, Bauer, Claudia M., Gatzka, Martina ORCID: 0000-0001-6520-9794 and Suhre, Janina L. (2018). A Face-Aging Smoking Prevention/Cessation Intervention for Nursery School Students in Germany: An Appearance-Focused Interventional Study. Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health, 15 (8). BASEL: MDPI. ISSN 1660-4601

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Abstract

The Education Against Tobacco (EAT) network delivers smoking prevention advice in secondary schools, typically using the mirroring approach (i.e., a selfie altered with a face-aging app and shared with a class). In November 2017, however, the German assembly of EAT opted to expand its remit to include nursing students. To assess the transferability of the existing approach, we implemented it with the self-developed face-aging app Smokerface (=mixed - methods approach) in six nursing schools. Anonymous questionnaires were used to assess the perceptions of 197 students (age 18-40 years; 83.8% female; 26.4% smokers; 23.3% daily smokers) collecting qualitative and quantitative data for our cross-sectional study. Most students perceived the intervention to be fun (73.3%), but a minority disagreed that their own animated selfie (25.9%) or the reaction of their peers (29.5%) had motivated them to stop smoking. The impact on motivation not to smoke was considerably lower than experienced with seventh graders (63.2% vs. 42.0%; notably, more smokers also disagreed (45.1%) than agreed (23.5%) with this statement. Agreement rates on the motivation not to smoke item were higher in females than in males and in year 2-3 than in year 1 students. Potential improvements included greater focus on pathology (29%) and discussing external factors (26%). Overall, the intervention seemed to be appealing for nursing students.

Item Type: Journal Article
Creators:
CreatorsEmailORCIDORCID Put Code
Brinker, Titus J.UNSPECIFIEDUNSPECIFIEDUNSPECIFIED
Alfitian, JonasUNSPECIFIEDUNSPECIFIEDUNSPECIFIED
Seeger, WernerUNSPECIFIEDorcid.org/0000-0003-1946-0894UNSPECIFIED
Groneberg, David A.UNSPECIFIEDUNSPECIFIEDUNSPECIFIED
von Kalle, ChristofUNSPECIFIEDUNSPECIFIEDUNSPECIFIED
Enk, Alexander H.UNSPECIFIEDUNSPECIFIEDUNSPECIFIED
Herth, Felix J. F.UNSPECIFIEDUNSPECIFIEDUNSPECIFIED
Kreuter, MichaelUNSPECIFIEDUNSPECIFIEDUNSPECIFIED
Bauer, Claudia M.UNSPECIFIEDUNSPECIFIEDUNSPECIFIED
Gatzka, MartinaUNSPECIFIEDorcid.org/0000-0001-6520-9794UNSPECIFIED
Suhre, Janina L.UNSPECIFIEDUNSPECIFIEDUNSPECIFIED
URN: urn:nbn:de:hbz:38-177721
DOI: 10.3390/ijerph15081656
Journal or Publication Title: Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health
Volume: 15
Number: 8
Date: 2018
Publisher: MDPI
Place of Publication: BASEL
ISSN: 1660-4601
Language: English
Faculty: Unspecified
Divisions: Unspecified
Subjects: no entry
Uncontrolled Keywords:
KeywordsLanguage
RANDOMIZED-TRIAL; SMARTPHONE APP; MOBILE APPS; CESSATION; ADOLESCENTS; BEHAVIOR; QUITMultiple languages
Environmental Sciences; Public, Environmental & Occupational HealthMultiple languages
Refereed: Yes
URI: http://kups.ub.uni-koeln.de/id/eprint/17772

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