Developing a peer mentoring system for social media adolescent vaping cessation interventions: A feasibility and acceptability study.

项目总结/摘要 在过去的几年里，电子烟（电子烟）的使用（“vaping”）在青少年中以惊人的速度增加。作为 青少年是电子烟行业令人垂涎的营销目标，电子烟的使用量已经上升， 近年来，青少年电子烟已成为一个严重而紧迫的公共卫生问题， 被解决。社交媒体是青少年中最受欢迎的媒体， 成为向青少年提供戒烟干预的理想平台。然而，健康 在社交媒体上提供的行为改变干预措施面临着一个共同的挑战：保留率低， 随着干预措施的展开而减少参与。留住人才和参与是成功的关键 社交媒体干预。文献告知社交媒体干预措施， 干预可能是一个潜在的解决方案，因为它可以提供人力支持和同行建模 人们需要克服健康行为改变的困难，它可以培养责任感， 可以促进遵守和参与。然而，尽管在许多健康领域显示出希望， 推广项目，包括戒烟干预措施，同伴指导尚未在社会 媒体介入。本研究将是第一个探讨同伴指导在社会中的应用 媒体干预，以解决青少年vaping。 建议研究的总体目标是开发一个可行的和可接受的同伴指导系统， 在社交媒体上提供的青少年vaping干预措施。为了实现这一目标，基于现有对等 指导基于文本的成年人戒烟计划和正在进行的随机基础设施 通过Instagram提供的青少年vaping干预试验，这项研究将实现两个具体目标： (1)为青少年vapers的社交媒体干预制定同伴指导系统，以及（2）试点测试 同伴指导系统在基于社交媒体的戒烟干预中的可行性和可接受性 青少年电子烟使用者总之，结合社交媒体干预的优势， 限于地理和后勤的亲自干预，同行指导的社会媒体干预， 有可能大大提高参与者的参与度和保留率，并进一步加强干预 帮助青少年戒烟的功效。这项研究也可能揭示其他健康行为的改变 在社交媒体上进行干预。这项研究为我国的农业生产提供了重要的经验和初步的指导。 为吕博士的下一个NIH K研究职业发展奖申请提供数据，并促进她的发展 成为公共卫生领域的独立调查员，致力于开发新的和基于证据的 采取有效的烟草控制干预措施，帮助人们戒烟。

PROJECT SUMMARY/ABSTRACT Electronic cigarette (e-cigarette) use ("vaping") has increased alarmingly in adolescents in the past years. As adolescents are a coveted marketing target of the e-cigarette industry, and e-cigarette use has risen dramatically in recent years, adolescent vaping has become a serious and urgent public health issue to be addressed. Social media is the most popular media among adolescents, and therefore holds promise to become an ideal platform to deliver vaping cessation interventions to adolescents. However, health behavior change interventions delivered on social media face a common challenge: low retention and reducing engagement as interventions unfold. Retention and engagement are essential to successful social media interventions. Literature informs social media interventions that Integrating peer mentoring into interventions may be a potential solution, because it can provide the human support and peer modelling that people need to overcome difficulties with health behavior change, and it can cultivate the accountability that can facilitate adherence and engagement. However, though shown to be promising in many health promotion projects, including smoking cessation interventions, peer mentoring has not been leveraged in social media interventions. This study would be the first to explore the application of peer mentoring into social media interventions to address adolescent vaping. The overall goal of the proposed research is to develop a feasible and acceptable peer mentoring system for adolescent vaping interventions delivered on social media. To achieve this goal, based on an existing peer mentoring text-based program for adult smoking cessation and the infrastructure of an ongoing randomized trial of an adolescent vaping intervention delivered via Instagram, this study will accomplish two specific aims: (1) develop a peer mentoring system for social media interventions for adolescent vapers, and (2) pilot test the feasibility and acceptability of the peer mentoring system in a social media-based vaping cessation intervention with adolescent vapers. In sum, combined with the advantages of social media interventions which are not confined to geography and logistics of in-person interventions, peer mentored social media interventions have the potential to significantly improve participant engagement and retention and to further enhance intervention efficacy to help adolescents quit vaping. This research may also shed light on other health behavior change interventions delivered on social media. The proposed study provides important experience and preliminary data for Dr. Lyu’s next NIH K research career development award application and facilitates her development into an independent investigator in the field of public health devoted to developing novel and evidence-based effective tobacco control interventions to help people quit tobacco consumption.