Revealing users' experience and social interaction outcomes following a web-based smoking prevention intervention for adolescents: A qualitative study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Tobacco smoking remains a public health problem among adolescents in the United States. While Web-based interventions for smoking prevention have been successful at the individual level, there is still an urgent need to understand their engagement capabilities and their effects at the social level. In the current study, we aimed to (1) learn about adolescents' subjective experience with a Web-based program called a smoking prevention interactive experience (ASPIRE), (2) obtain suggestions for improvement in ASPIRE content, (3) identify psychological outcomes of ASPIRE, and (4) explore outcomes of social interaction.

Materials and methods

After a randomized controlled trial with 110 adolescents, 20 adolescent users of ASPIRE, aged 11-18, were randomly selected to p

SUBMITTER: Khalil GE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6797109 | biostudies-literature | 2019

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature