Online Program

336564
Use of Participatory Video Production in Youth Smoking Prevention


Wednesday, November 4, 2015 : 9:10 a.m. - 9:30 a.m.

Eunhee Park, PhD, RN, School of Nursing, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Greensboro, NC
Pamela A. Kulbok, DNSc, RN, APHN-BC, FAAN, School of Nursing, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA
Smoking prevention is an important agenda for public health nursing, given the fact that smoking is the single most preventable cause of premature death and illness. However, although 88% of smoking initiations occur during adolescence and greater effort is required for smoking cessation, not many effective strategies for youth smoking prevention have been identified. In this study, participatory video making based on the psychological empowerment framework is used to empower youth for tobacco control. Thirty-one youths (grades 4–8) from an underserved urban community were recruited for this study. In small groups, these youths were guided to make videos that contained anti-smoking messages to be shown to their friends and family over 4 weeks in a community-based organization located in an urban area. Mixed method study design was used to test the feasibility of this program, following the concurrent embedded study model. Quantitative data, from pre- and post-intervention survey and program satisfaction survey, as well as qualitative data from interviews, were collected. Wilcoxon test resulted in positive changes in all domains of psychological empowerment, including the intention not to smoke, which were statistically significant. Qualitative descriptive inductive analysis confirms the quantitative findings, and three themes including active engagement, agentic participation for healthy community, and personal growth and healthy development were found to answer the feasibility of this study. As the first study to test the effect of the video-making process on youth tobacco prevention, this study can provide policy implications on the advance use of technology for youth smoking prevention.

Learning Areas:

Advocacy for health and health education
Communication and informatics
Public health or related education
Public health or related nursing
Public health or related research
Social and behavioral sciences

Learning Objectives:
Describe the emerging roles of evolving technology in health care policy Identify strategies to develop community health promotion models through interactive technology use Demonstrate youth smoking prevention through the effect of interactive use of technology

Keyword(s): Tobacco Control, Youth

Presenting author's disclosure statement:

Qualified on the content I am responsible for because: As a PhD candidate whose scholarly interests primarily focus on the use of interactive technologies, including digital media, to promote adolescent health and enhance community health, I have been working on several research projects in developing advanced health promotion interventions and providing policy implications. I authored and co-authored several manuscripts related to this study in peer-reviewed journals.
Any relevant financial relationships? No

I agree to comply with the American Public Health Association Conflict of Interest and Commercial Support Guidelines, and to disclose to the participants any off-label or experimental uses of a commercial product or service discussed in my presentation.