TY  - JOUR
A1  - Brinker, Titus Josef
A1  - Alfitian, Jonas
A1  - Seeger, Werner
A1  - Groneberg, Jan David Alexander
A1  - Kalle, Christof von
A1  - Enk, Alexander
A1  - Herth, Felix
A1  - Kreuter, Michael
A1  - Bauer, Claudia M.
A1  - Gatzka, Martina
A1  - Suhre, Janina Leonie
T1  - A face-aging smoking prevention/cessation intervention for nursery school students in Germany: An appearance-focused interventional study
T2  - International journal of environmental research and public health
N2  - 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
KW  - medical students
KW  - tobacco prevention
KW  - nurses
KW  - nursery schools
KW  - nursery students
KW  - nursery school students
KW  - smoking cessation
KW  - prevent smoking
KW  - school-based prevention
Y1  - 2018
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/51483
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-514839
SN  - 1660-4601
SN  - 1661-7827
N1  - This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited
VL  - 15
IS  - 8, Art. 1656
SP  - 1
EP  - 15
PB  - MDPI AG
CY  - Basel
ER  -