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

摘要 电子烟是目前年轻人最常用的烟草产品，它们通常是 通过推广口味向年轻人推销。两人使用电子烟的常见原因(电子烟) 与其他烟草产品相比，年轻人和年轻人是调味品/味觉产品，感知的危害较小。 由于电子烟技术的快速发展，关于电子烟的 蒸发对环境健康的影响。长期接触电子烟可能会对健康构成重大风险 含有化学物质、香料、超细颗粒和重金属的电子烟气雾剂。 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，这些工具包侧重于 与蒸发对环境健康的影响有关的主题。这些工具包将设计成能够以学校为基础 和以社区为基础的教育工作者通过动手活动来改善参与者的环境健康 关于蒸发对健康的潜在长期影响的扫盲。 该项目是以下各方的合作伙伴关系： 科学外卖，一家创造和制造预先组装的“袋装实验室”科学的小企业 包含用户参与实际科学活动所需的所有材料的工具包。 是罗切斯特大学环境健康科学中心的社区参与核心， 它创建了许多教育和外展倡议。 在这个第一阶段的STTR项目中，我们将： 1.开发两个关于蒸发对环境健康影响的科学外卖工具包 2.为以学校和社区为基础的教育工作者举办焦点小组，评估套件原型 3.在以学校和社区为基础的环境中进行试行测试 这个项目意义重大，因为它将开发实践活动和资源，教育工作者可以利用它们来 解决电子烟使用带来的环境健康风险。这些新的套件将结合易用性 科学外卖工具包的特点，包括活动和场景，让学习者了解 蒸发对环境健康的潜在长期影响。亲身实践的科学外卖蒸发教育 工具包将被设计成在各种以学校和社区为基础的教育环境中有用。 该项目具有创新性，因为科学外卖蒸发教育工具包将采用独特的 增加教育工作者采用可能性的特征的组合：(1)工具包将使用手- 以情景为基础的活动，提高人们对与电子- 香烟的使用，以及：(2)“袋装实验室”工具包将使动手科学活动变得简单、经济和 便于教育工作者在以学校和社区为基础的各种环境中使用。

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.