Undergraduate support for university smoke-free and vape-free campus policies and student engagement: a quasi-experimental intervention.
- Resource Type
- Article
- Authors
- Cheung, Elaine; Romero, Tamineh; Crespi, Catherine M.; Perez, Claudia; Huang, Janice E.; Pechmann, Cornelia; McCarthy, William J.
- Source
- Journal of American College Health; May/Jun2022, Vol. 70 Issue 4, p992-1000, 9p, 1 Chart
- Subject
- Social media
Research methodology
Undergraduates
Government policy
Universities & colleges
Social support
Human research subjects
Electronic cigarettes
Surveys
Informed consent (Medical law)
Chi-squared test
Questionnaires
Descriptive statistics
Smoking
Statistical sampling
Sociodemographic factors
Logistic regression analysis
Data analysis software
Tobacco
- Language
- ISSN
- 07448481
Background College campuses have policies restricting smoking/vaping on campus. Previous studies involving mostly European-American students showed smoking prevalence declines following implementation of such policies. Objective To evaluate a social media campaign promotive of stronger campus support for an existing campus no-smoking/no-vaping policy where most (∼75%) of the undergraduates were non-European-American. A demographically comparable university served as a no-intervention control. Participants Target was 200 random intercept surveys at each university during fall 2016, spring 2017. Of 800 respondents, 681 were undergraduates. Methods Baseline and post-intervention surveys assessed awareness of and support for campus-wide smoke-free/vape-free policies. Staged smoke-free/vape-free policy violations assessed students' propensity to intervene in support of the policy. Results Respondent support for the no-smoking/no-vaping policy did not change. Conclusions The social media campaign and Policy Ambassadors program did not increase support for the campus no-smoking/no-vaping policy. Most (∼90%) respondents agreed that the campus no-smoking/no-vaping policy was important for public health. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]