Trial reportDrug and alcohol dependence2022
Responses to e-cigarette health messages among young adult sexual minoritized women and nonbinary people assigned female at birth: Assessing the influence of message theme and format.
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16 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Interventions to change vaping harm perceptions and associations between harm perceptions and vaping and smoking behaviours: A systematic review.Addiction (Abingdon, England) · 2026Pooled it
- Health Messaging Strategies for Vaping Prevention and Cessation Among Youth and Young Adults: A Systematic Review.Health communication · 2025Pooled it
- Do Vaping Prevention Messages Impact Adolescents and Young Adults? A Meta-Analysis of Experimental Studies.Health communication · 2023Pooled it
- Randomised experiment for the effect of 'Tobacco-Free Nicotine' messaging on current e-cigarette users' perceptions, preferences and intentions.Tobacco control · 2024Trial
- Culturally Tailored Anti-Smoking Messages: A Randomized Trial With U.S. Sexual Minority Young Women.American journal of preventive medicine · 2024Trial
- Minoritized Sexual Identity and Perceived Effectiveness of Instagram Public Health Messaging about E-cigarettes.Journal of health communication · 2022Trial
- A Scoping Review of Theory-Based Tobacco Control Efforts for Sexual and Gender Minority Populations.Nicotine & tobacco research : official journal of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco · 2026Article
- Young Adults' Visual Attention to, Unaided Recall, and Perspectives of Tobacco Public Education Messages: An Experimental Eye-Tracking Study.Nicotine & tobacco research : official journal of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco · 2026Article
- Evaluation of vaping cessation infographics among e-cigarette users: A cross-sectional, mixed-methods study.Tobacco prevention & cessation · 2026Article
- Tobacco control messages for individuals who use both cigarettes and e-cigarettes: a randomised trial comparing biomarker outcome with cessation experience narratives.Tobacco control · 2025Article
- The Role of e-Cigarette Packaging as a Health Communications Tool: A Focus Group Study With Adolescents and Adults in England and Scotland.Nicotine & tobacco research : official journal of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco · 2025Article
- How stress influences e-cigarette health message perceptions and intentions to abstain from vaping among young adults who vape.Addictive behaviors · 2025Article
- Resonating With Pride: Considerations for Tailoring Tobacco Interventions for LGBTQ+ Communities.Nicotine & tobacco research : official journal of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco · 2024Article
- Absolute and relative e-cigarette harm perceptions among young adult lesbian and bisexual women and nonbinary people assigned female at birth.Addictive behaviors · 2023Article
- Associations of Perceived Stress and Social Support on Health Behavior Changes in Sexual Minoritized Women During the COVID-19 Pandemic.Women's health reports (New Rochelle, N.Y.) · 2023Article
- E-Cigarette Use among Sexual Minoritized Women and Nonbinary People Assigned Female at Birth: Assessing the Roles of Discrimination, Perceived Stress, and Social Support.Substance use & misuse · 2023Article
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Abstract
backgroundYoung adult sexual minority women (YSMW) report disproportionate e-cigarette (EC) use and low EC harm perceptions. Health messages that effectively communicate EC harms to YSMW are needed. We tested the effect of culturally targeted EC health messages with varying themes and image formats on attitudes and intentions to use ECs in this population.
methodsN = 501 YSMW and nonbinary people assigned female at birth (AFAB) aged 18-30 years-old completed an online experiment. Participants were randomized into a control or one of nine experimental conditions in a 3 (theme: harms, wellness, pride) by 3 (image format: individual, couple, cartoon) study design. We modeled associations between message condition and message effectiveness, discouragement from vaping, change in feelings toward vaping, perceived threat, and intentions to abstain from vaping.
resultsAmong YSMW and nonbinary people AFAB, harm and wellness themes discouraged vaping more than pride-themed messages (p's < 0.001). Harms messages resulted in worse feelings about vaping than wellness and pride messages (p's < 0.02). Images of couples were perceived as more effective than cartoon images (p = .008). Among current EC users, viewing images of individuals resulted in greater readiness to avoid ECs and higher intentions to abstain than the couple or cartoon conditions (p's < 0.001).
conclusionsMessage theme and image format were associated with YSMW and nonbinary people AFAB's EC attitudes and behavioral intentions. Future studies should evaluate how to optimize harms messages; including if wellness or pride messages can be re-framed to better affect EC use in this population.
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