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 在过去的六个月中，已在49个州发现了超过2,000例与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损失：这些情况的中位年龄是 24岁和54％的患者是年轻人或25岁以下的年轻人。 VAPING THC在这次爆发中起着重要作用，流行病与电子烟的使用迅速增加一致 在过去两年中的青年中。年轻人的时间敏感信息有关感知，模式和 需要与THC和Nicotine相关的问题来指导州级的努力。在2019年秋天， 佛蒙特州卫生部成立了紧急卫生运营中心，以跟踪和回应 州与烟有关的肺部受伤。作为其早期行动之一，中心巩固了有关烟的数据 政策与传播评估研究（PACE VERMONT； www.pacevt.org），一项为期六个月的试点研究 2019年10月完成的1,500名青年和年轻人的季度在线调查。 研究是佛蒙特大学与佛蒙特州卫生系之间的合作伙伴关系 国家一级政策和沟通运动对物质使用信念和行为的影响 年轻的佛蒙特人。该提案继续在佛蒙特州研究中开发的方法迅速 告知VT HOC对与烟有关的肺损伤爆发的反应。加快审查和资金将 在1,500名佛蒙特州青年和年轻人中允许另外三浪收集数据浪潮来解决 VT HOC和研究团队提出的问题本来是不可能获得的。研究目的 解决三个领域：1）与烟碱和烟相关的感知，模式和符号的变化 佛蒙特州青年和年轻人的大麻爆发与烟有关的肺部受伤； 2） 那些vape Nicotine和大麻的人的特征以及报告与烟有关的人的特征 指导干预工作的症状或问题； 3）电子烟预防信息对 与烟有关的危害感知和使用模式。该提案利用经验丰富的研究团队 具有快速和响应式研究的专业知识，建立的结构以及社区参与的方法 解决年轻人烟雾迅速增加以及与烟有关的伤害的出现。 与佛蒙特州卫生部和持续协调与紧急卫生的伙伴关系 运营中心确保本研究中收集的数据将迅速纳入对这些研究的响应中 在佛蒙特州和其他其他州的突然和严重的新兴药物问题。