School-based preventive interventions targeting e-cigarette use among adolescents: a systematic review protocol.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Electronic cigarette (e-cigarette) use has drastically increased in recent years, particularly among adolescents. This poses several acute and chronic harms to young people, including poisonings, burns, serious lung injury and-where nicotine e-liquid is used-the potential to impact healthy brain development and precipitate future nicotine addiction. School-based prevention programmes have the potential to address this growing public health concern by reaching large numbers of young people during a critical period for intervention; however, the efficacy of such interventions has not been systematically explored. This systematic review aims to determine the existence and efficacy of school-based preventive interventions targeting e-cigarette use.

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SUBMITTER: Gardner LA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9486280 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature