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

摘要 电子烟是目前青少年最常用的烟草产品，而且它们通常 向年轻人推销口味。两者中使用电子烟（“vaping”）的常见原因 与其他烟草产品相比，青少年和年轻的成年人具有更好的风味/味道和更低的感知危害。 由于电子烟技术的快速发展，关于电子烟的发展存在许多不确定性和未知因素。 vaping的环境健康影响。由于长期暴露在空气中， 电子烟气溶胶含有化学物质，香料，超细颗粒和重金属。 该项目的目的是开发、试点测试和评估科学外卖工具包的使用， 与vaping的环境健康影响有关的主题。这些教材套的设计， 和社区教育工作者利用实践活动来改善参与者的环境健康 对vaping潜在的长期健康影响的扫盲。 该项目是以下各方的合作伙伴关系： 科学外卖，一个小企业，创造和制造预装的“实验室在一个袋子”的科学 包含用户参与动手科学活动所需的所有材料的工具包。 罗切斯特大学环境健康科学中心的社区参与核心， 它创造了许多教育和推广活动。 在第一阶段STTR项目期间，我们将： 1.开发两个关于vaping对环境健康影响的科学外卖工具包 2.为学校和社区的教育工作者举办焦点小组，以评估工具包原型 3.在以学校和社区为基础的环境中对这些工具包进行试点测试 这个项目意义重大，因为它将开发实践活动和资源，教育工作者可以使用， 解决电子烟使用的环境健康风险。这些新套件将联合收割机的易用性 科学外卖工具包的功能与活动和场景，让学习者了解 vaping的潜在长期环境健康影响。动手科学外卖vaping教育 将设计在各种学校和社区教育环境中有用的教材。 这个项目是创新的，因为科学外卖vaping教育套件将采用独特的 这些特点的组合增加了教育工作者采用的可能性：（1）工具包将使用手- 在内罗毕开展活动，提高人们对与电子商务有关的环境健康风险的认识， 香烟使用，和：（2）“实验室在一个袋子”套件将使动手科学活动容易，经济， 方便教育工作者在各种学校和社区环境中使用。

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.