A Face-Aging Smoking Prevention/Cessation Intervention for Nursery School Students in Germany: An Appearance-Focused Interventional Study

International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health

ClaudiaM. Bauer¹  Michael Kreuter¹  FelixJ. F. Herth¹  Jonas Alfitian²  Martina Gatzka³  AlexanderH. Enk⁴  JaninaL. Suhre⁵  Christof von Kalle⁶  TitusJ. Brinker⁶  DavidA. Groneberg⁷  Werner Seeger⁸ 

[1] Center for Interstitial and Rare Lung Diseases, Pneumology and Respiratory Care Medicine, Thoraxklinik, University of Heidelberg, 69120 Heidelberg, Germany;Department of Cardiology, University Hospital of Cologne, 50937 Cologne, Germany;Department of Dermatology and Allergic Diseases, Ulm University Hospital, University of Ulm, 89081 Ulm, Germany;Department of Dermatology, University Hospital Heidelberg, 69120 Heidelberg, Germany;Department of Pulmonary Medicine, University of Bonn, 53127 Bonn, Germany;Department of Translational Oncology, National Center for Tumor Diseases (NCT), German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), 69120 Heidelberg, Germany;Institute of Occupational Medicine, Social Medicine and Environmental Medicine, Goethe University, 60590 Frankfurt, Germany;Universities of Giessen and Marburg Lung Center, 35392 Gießen, Germany;

关键词: medical students;    tobacco prevention;    nurses;    nursery schools;    nursery students;    nursery school students;    smoking cessation;    prevent smoking;    school-based prevention;   

DOI  :  10.3390/ijerph15081656

来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

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.

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