Unit Gender and Health, Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, Socinstr. 57, 4051 Basel, Switzerland.
Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2010 Sep;7(9):3499-512. doi: 10.3390/ijerph7093499. Epub 2010 Sep 27.
Recruiting adolescents into smoking cessation programs has been challenging, and there is a lack of effective smoking cessation interventions for this age group. We aimed to assess whether the approach of using aging images can be used to recruit young, female smokers for a smoking cessation course. In this study, 853 14- to 18-year-old subjects were photographed (2006-2007). After software-aided aging, the images evoked strong emotions, especially in subjects with an advanced motivational stage to quit. Twenty-four percent of current smokers reported that the aging images increased their motivation to quit smoking (pre-contemplation: 8%; contemplation: 32%; and preparation: 71%). In multivariate analyses, the aged images had a high motivational impact to quit smoking that was associated with an increased readiness to stop smoking and the individual's assessment of the aging images as shocking, but not with the number of previous attempts to quit and the assessment of the pictures as realistic. However, it was not possible to recruit the study population for a smoking cessation course. We concluded that aging images are a promising intervention for reaching young women and increasing their motivation to stop smoking. However, smoking cessation courses may not be appropriate for this age group: none of the recruits agreed to take a cessation course.
招募青少年参与戒烟计划一直具有挑战性，而且针对这一年龄段的有效戒烟干预措施也很缺乏。我们旨在评估使用老化图像的方法是否可用于招募年轻的女性吸烟者参加戒烟课程。在这项研究中，对 853 名 14 至 18 岁的受试者进行了拍照（2006-2007 年）。经过软件辅助老化后，这些图像引起了强烈的情绪反应，尤其是在处于戒烟动机高级阶段的受试者中。24%的当前吸烟者报告说，老化图像增加了他们戒烟的动机（前沉思期：8%；沉思期：32%；准备期：71%）。在多变量分析中，老化图像对戒烟有很高的激励作用，这与戒烟的准备程度增加以及个人对老化图像的评估有关，认为其令人震惊，但与之前戒烟尝试的次数和对图片的真实评估无关。然而，无法为戒烟课程招募研究人群。我们的结论是，老化图像是一种很有前途的干预手段，可以接触到年轻女性并提高她们戒烟的动力。然而，戒烟课程可能不适合这一年龄段：没有一个被招募者同意参加戒烟课程。
