A Face-Aging Smoking Prevention/Cessation Intervention for Nursery School Students in Germany: An Appearance-Focused Interventional Study

Titus J. Brinker, Jonas Alfitian, Werner Seeger, David A. Groneberg, Christof Von Kalle, Alexander H. Enk, Felix J. F. Herth, Michael Kreuter, Claudia M. Bauer, Martina Gatzka and Janina L. Suhre
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Titus J. Brinker: Department of Translational Oncology, National Center for Tumor Diseases (NCT), German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), 69120 Heidelberg, Germany
Jonas Alfitian: Department of Cardiology, University Hospital of Cologne, 50937 Cologne, Germany
Werner Seeger: Universities of Giessen and Marburg Lung Center, 35392 Gießen, Germany
David A. Groneberg: Institute of Occupational Medicine, Social Medicine and Environmental Medicine, Goethe University, 60590 Frankfurt, Germany
Christof Von Kalle: Department of Translational Oncology, National Center for Tumor Diseases (NCT), German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), 69120 Heidelberg, Germany
Alexander H. Enk: Department of Dermatology, University Hospital Heidelberg, 69120 Heidelberg, Germany
Felix J. F. Herth: Center for Interstitial and Rare Lung Diseases, Pneumology and Respiratory Care Medicine, Thoraxklinik, University of Heidelberg, 69120 Heidelberg, Germany
Michael Kreuter: Center for Interstitial and Rare Lung Diseases, Pneumology and Respiratory Care Medicine, Thoraxklinik, University of Heidelberg, 69120 Heidelberg, Germany
Claudia M. Bauer: Center for Interstitial and Rare Lung Diseases, Pneumology and Respiratory Care Medicine, Thoraxklinik, University of Heidelberg, 69120 Heidelberg, Germany
Martina Gatzka: Department of Dermatology and Allergic Diseases, Ulm University Hospital, University of Ulm, 89081 Ulm, Germany
Janina L. Suhre: Department of Pulmonary Medicine, University of Bonn, 53127 Bonn, Germany

IJERPH, 2018, vol. 15, issue 8, 1-15

Abstract: The Education Against Tobacco (EAT) network delivers smoking prevention advice in secondary schools, typically using the mirroring approach (i.e., a “selfie” altered with a face-aging app and shared with a class). In November 2017, however, the German assembly of EAT opted to expand its remit to include nursing students. To assess the transferability of the existing approach, we implemented it with the self-developed face-aging app “Smokerface” (=mixed − methods approach) in six nursing schools. Anonymous questionnaires were used to assess the perceptions of 197 students (age 18–40 years; 83.8% female; 26.4% smokers; 23.3% daily smokers) collecting qualitative and quantitative data for our cross-sectional study. Most students perceived the intervention to be fun (73.3%), but a minority disagreed that their own animated selfie (25.9%) or the reaction of their peers (29.5%) had motivated them to stop smoking. The impact on motivation not to smoke was considerably lower than experienced with seventh graders (63.2% vs. 42.0%; notably, more smokers also disagreed (45.1%) than agreed (23.5%) with this statement. Agreement rates on the motivation not to smoke item were higher in females than in males and in year 2–3 than in year 1 students. Potential improvements included greater focus on pathology (29%) and discussing external factors (26%). Overall, the intervention seemed to be appealing for nursing students.

Keywords: medical students; tobacco prevention; nurses; nursery schools; nursery students; nursery school students; smoking cessation; prevent smoking; school-based prevention (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I I1 I3 Q Q5 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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