Decoding Vaping: Empowering Youth Through Media Literacy Based E-cigarette Educational Program.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

The E-cigarette industry's marketing and social media efforts have promoted adolescent vaping. We developed and pilot-tested an anti-vaping media literary program-MediaSense.

Aims and methods

In addition to employing the Community-Based Participatory Research approach for program development, we applied a prospective, interventional, and single-arm design to assess the impact of MediaSense among students from five middle and high schools. Data were collected through REDCap surveys administered before and after the intervention. We performed generalized linear mixed models and median analysis to evaluate changes in vaping media literacy (ie, Authors and Audiences [vAA], Messages and Meanings [vMM], and Representation and Reality [vRR]), knowledge, harm perception

SUBMITTER: Michaud TL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11847781 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature