Adapting E-cigarette prevention programming to reach the latinx community.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

E-cigarettes are the most commonly used tobacco product among youth in the United States. Yet evidence-based prevention programming is limited due to the rapid onset of this threat. Community-based efforts to address vaping largely target youth in school settings. Although parents can play an important role in youth tobacco control efforts, messages about the dangers of vaping, use among adolescents, and strategies for intervening have not reached many Spanish-speaking parents in low-income Latinx communities. Our community-academic team developed e-cigarette prevention programming for use by promotor/as de salud to address this unmet need.

Methods

During the 1-year project, the team worked closely with a Project Advisory Committee to: review existing evidence-inform

SUBMITTER: Herrmann AK 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10838817 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature