Science Take-Out Kits for Improving Environmental Health Literacy on Vaping

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• 批准号: 9903561
• 负责人: Susan Holt
• 金额: $ 14.96万
• 依托单位: SCIENCE TAKE-OUT, LLC
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2019
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2019-09-05 至 2021-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/9903561
• 关键词: Address; Adopted; Adoption; Aerosols; Awareness; Businesses; Characteristics; Chemicals; Communities; Data; Education; Education and Outreach; Educational Curriculum; Educational Materials; Electronic cigarette; Ensure; Environmental Health; Evaluation; Exposure to; Faculty; Feedback; Flavoring; Focus Groups; Hand; Hand functions; Health; Heavy Metals; Individual; Participant; Phase; Process; Public Health; Resources; Risk; Schools; Science; Small Business Technology Transfer Research; Surveys; Taste Perception; Technology; Testing; Tobacco use; Uncertainty; Universities; Youth; base; design; electronic cigarette use; experience; hands-on learning; health literacy; improved; innovation; programs; prototype; public health relevance; tobacco products; ultrafine particle; vaping; young adult

ABSTRACT E-cigarettes are currently the most commonly used tobacco product among youth, and they are typically marketed to youth by promoting flavors. Commonly cited reasons for e-cigarette use (“vaping”) among both youth and young adults are flavoring/taste and low perceived harm compared to other tobacco products. Because of the rapidly evolving e-cigarette technology, there are many uncertainties and unknowns about the environmental health effects of vaping. Vaping may pose significant health risks due to long-term exposure to e-cigarette aerosols containing chemicals, flavorings, ultrafine particles, and heavy metals. The purpose of this project is to develop, pilot test, and evaluate the use of Science Take-Out kits that focus on topics related to the environmental health effects of vaping. The kits will be designed to enable school-based and community-based educators to use hands-on activities to improve participants' environmental health literacy on the potential long-term health effects of vaping. This project is a partnership between:  Science Take-Out, a small business that creates and manufactures preassembled “lab in a bag” science kits containing all materials needed for users to engage in hands-on science activities.  The Community Engagement Core of University of Rochester's Environmental Health Sciences Center, which has created numerous education and outreach initiatives. During this Phase I STTR project we will: 1. Develop two Science Take-Out kits on the environmental health effects of vaping 2. Conduct focus groups for school-based and community-based educators to evaluate kit prototypes 3. Pilot test the kits in school-based and community-based settings This project is significant because it will develop hands-on activities and resources that educators can use to address the environmental health risks of e-cigarette use. These new kits will combine the ease-of-use features of Science Take-Out kits with activities and scenarios that engage learners in understanding the potential long-term environmental health effects of vaping. The hands-on Science Take-Out vaping education kits will be designed to be useful in a wide variety of school-based and community-based education settings. This project is innovative because the Science Take-Out vaping education kits will employ a unique combination of characteristics that increase the likelihood of adoption by educators: (1) The kits will use hands- on, scenario-based activities that increase people's awareness of environmental health risks related to e- cigarettes use, and: (2) The “lab in a bag” kits will make hand-on science activities easy, economical and convenient for educators to use in a wide variety of school-based and community-based settings.

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