Photoaging Mobile Apps in School-Based Tobacco Prevention: The Mirroring Approach.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Most smokers start smoking during their early adolescence, often with the idea that smoking is glamorous. Adolescent smoking can best be prevented through health education at schools. Interventions that take advantage of the broad availability of mobile phones as well as adolescents' interest in their appearance may be a novel way to improve prevention.

Objective

In this first pilot study, we aimed to use mobile phone technology in accordance with the theory of planned behavior to improve school-based tobacco prevention.

Methods

We used a free photoaging mobile phone app ("Smokerface") in three German secondary schools via a novel method called mirroring. The students' altered three-dimensional selfies on mobile phones or tablets were "mirrored" via a proje

SUBMITTER: Brinker TJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4942683 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature