Perceptions and Problems Associated with Vaping in Youth and Young Adults

青少年和年轻人对电子烟的看法和问题

• 批准号: 10054226
• 负责人: Andrea Villanti
• 金额: $ 32.41万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT & ST AGRIC COLLEGE
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2020
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2020-04-01 至 2022-03-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10054226
• 关键词: Address; Affect; Age; Alcohol or Other Drugs use; Area; Behavior; Belief; Cessation of life; Characteristics; Communication; Communities; Data; Data Collection; Devices; Disease Outbreaks; Electronic cigarette; Emergency Situation; Enrollment; Ensure; Epidemic; Evaluation Studies; Exposure to; Frequencies; Funding; Future; Health; Health Communication; High Prevalence; Injury; Intervention; Knowledge; Laws; Link; Marijuana; Nicotine; Patients; Pattern; Perception; Pharmaceutical Preparations; Pilot Projects; Play; Policies; Prevention; Reporting; Research; Risk; Role; Sampling; Structure; Surveys; Symptoms; Time; Tobacco use; Universities; Vermont; Youth; associated symptom; cohort; electronic cigarette use; expedited review; experience; falls; lung injury; male; marijuana use; operation; population survey; prevent; response; vaping; vaping associated lung injury; vaping nicotine; young adult

PROJECT ABSTRACT In the past six months, over 2,000 cases of vaping-related lung injury have been identified in 49 states, with 39 deaths. These injuries are taking a disproportionate toll on young people: the median age of these cases is 24 years and 54% of patients are youth or young adults under the age of 25. While evidence indicates that vaping THC plays a major role in this outbreak, the epidemic coincides with rapid increases in e-cigarette use in youth over the past two years. Time-sensitive information from young people on perceptions, patterns, and problems associated with vaping THC and nicotine is needed to guide state-level efforts. In the fall of 2019, the Vermont Department of Health launched the emergency Health Operations Center to track and respond to the state’s vaping-related lung injuries. As one of its early actions, the Center solicited data on vaping from the Policy and Communication Evaluation Study (PACE Vermont; www.pacevt.org), a six-month pilot study with quarterly online surveys in 1,500 youth and young adults completed in October 2019. The PACE Vermont Study is a partnership between the University of Vermont and the Vermont Department of Health to understand the impact of state-level policies and communication campaigns on substance use beliefs and behaviors in young Vermonters. This proposal continues the approach developed in the PACE Vermont Study to rapidly inform the VT HOC’s response to the outbreak of vaping-related lung injury. Expedited review and funding will allow for three additional waves of data collection in 1,500 Vermont youth and young adults to address questions raised by the VT HOC and the study team that would otherwise be impossible to obtain. Study aims address three areas: 1) changes in perceptions, patterns, and symptoms associated with vaping nicotine and marijuana in Vermont youth and young adults following the emergent outbreak of vaping-related lung injury; 2) characteristics of those who vape nicotine and marijuana, as well as those who report vaping-related symptoms or problems to guide intervention efforts; and 3) the impact of e-cigarette prevention messages on vaping-related harm perceptions and patterns of use. This proposal harnesses an experienced research team with expertise in rapid and responsive research, an established structure, and a community-engaged approach to address the rapid increase in vaping among young people and the emergence of vaping-related injuries. Partnership with the Vermont Department of Health and ongoing coordination with its emergency Health Operations Center ensures that data collected in this study will be rapidly incorporated into responses to these sudden and severe emerging drug issues in Vermont and potentially other states.

项目摘要 在过去的六个月里，在49个州发现了2,000多例与电子烟有关的肺损伤病例， 39人死亡这些伤害对年轻人造成了不成比例的伤害：这些病例的中位年龄是 24岁，54%的患者为青年或25岁以下的年轻人。虽然有证据表明， vaping THC在此次疫情中发挥了重要作用，该流行病与电子烟使用的快速增加相吻合 在过去的两年里，年轻人。从年轻人那里获得的关于观念、模式和 与vaping THC和尼古丁相关的问题需要指导州一级的努力。2019年秋季， 佛蒙特州卫生部启动了紧急卫生行动中心，以跟踪和应对 与电子烟有关的肺损伤作为其早期的行动之一，该中心向美国国家卫生研究院（National Health Research Institute）征求了有关电子烟的数据。 政策和通信评估研究（PACE佛蒙特州; www.pacevt.org），一项为期六个月的试点研究， 2019年10月完成了对1,500名青年和年轻人的季度在线调查。PACE佛蒙特州 这项研究是佛蒙特大学和佛蒙特州卫生部之间的合作， 州级政策和沟通活动对药物使用信念和行为的影响 年轻的佛蒙特人该提案延续了计算机设备行动伙伴关系佛蒙特州研究中制定的方法， 通知VT HOC对与电子烟相关的肺损伤爆发的反应。快速审查和供资将 允许在1,500名佛蒙特州青年和年轻人中进行另外三波数据收集，以解决 VT HOC和研究小组提出的问题，否则不可能获得。研究旨在 解决三个方面：1）与尼古丁雾化相关的感知，模式和症状的变化， 佛蒙特州青年和年轻人中的大麻在与电子烟相关的肺损伤紧急爆发后; 2） 那些谁vape尼古丁和大麻的特点，以及那些谁报告vaping相关 症状或问题，以指导干预工作;以及3）电子烟预防信息对 vaping相关的伤害认知和使用模式。该提案利用了经验丰富的研究团队 拥有快速响应研究的专业知识，建立了结构，并采用社区参与的方法 以解决年轻人中vaping的快速增长以及与vaping相关的伤害的出现。 与佛蒙特州卫生部建立伙伴关系，并与其紧急卫生部门不断协调 运营中心确保本研究中收集的数据将迅速纳入对这些问题的响应中， 佛蒙特州和其他州可能出现的突发和严重的毒品问题。