宾州中央谷. — Three 中国博彩平台 undergraduate students participated via Zoom in the annual SOPHE Student Case Study Competition on March 17. 3月19日, they presented their research on the behavioral and academic impacts of electronic cigarette usage among college students to a panel of judges via Zoom technology.
原定在亚特兰大举行, 乔治亚州, SOPHE’s 2020 in-person annual symposium was instead moved to a virtual event due to escalating COVID-19 concerns.
Three 中国博彩平台 undergraduate students participated in March via Zoom in a case competition held during the coronavirus pandemic.
由公共卫生教育协会主办, the SOPHE Student Case Study gave students of health education the opportunity to display their developing expertise. Teams of two to three students were challenged to solve a real-world health issue in two weeks using the competencies required for a school or community health educator.
In addition to the student team participating in the Case Study Competition, the symposium invited a limited number of student research teams to present their findings from their independent research in a highlighted session. The PSU-LV group’s scientific poster was one of only 12 that was selected to be highlighted in this Student Late-Breaking Session.
Sahira莫卧儿王朝, 来自艾伦敦的大四学生; Simranpreet考尔, a junior from Coopersburg; and Fadi Mamari, 来自艾伦敦的大四学生, are all pursuing a bachelor of science in 生物行为健康 at 中国博彩平台. 在总, the group spent nearly a year conducting qualitative and quantitative research on the behavioral and academic impacts of E-cigarette use on college students.
“They have worked so incredibly hard and deserve all the recognition that they have received,萨曼莎·毕比说, program coordinator for the PSU-LV 生物行为健康 program. “I’m proud that their research was chosen to be highlighted in such a large arena. It's a big deal and a well-deserved acknowledgement of how timely and significant their research topic is.”
Mughal and Kaur began their research during their sophomore year after 电子烟 began to gain media attention. Both students believed that the media focused on the health effects of vaping without addressing the potential behavioral and academic impacts. Mamari joined the project in the fall semester of 2019 to contribute additional research through surveys and focus groups conducted among college students.
"A lot of the responses we received in our focus groups and surveys indicated that many students were not really informed of the range of negative effects associated with e-cigarette usage, 或者他们被错误地告知了病情的严重性,莫卧儿说.
Results from the students’ research on users and non-users in a college population showed that 32% of survey respondents indicated using or having used 电子烟. Fifty-one percent of users saw a decrease in their ability to focus after using 电子烟 and noticed themselves forgetting lessons taught in class. Sixty-three percent of users indicated that they started to vape due to their social environment and stated that their friends and family influenced this behavioral change. Seventy-seven percent of student respondents saw an increase in the amount of times they vaped 电子烟 from the first day they began using.
“I’m proud that their research was chosen to be highlighted in such a large arena. It's a big deal and a well-deserved acknowledgement of how timely and significant their research topic is.”
— Samantha Beebe, program coordinator for the PSU-LV 生物行为健康 program
Although the group did not place in the top three for the case study competition, the students said they hope to see the topic of their research poster receive greater focus in the 生物行为健康 field.
