Virginia Institute for Psychiatric and Behavioral Genetics, Virginia Commonwealth University, 800 E. Leigh Street, Biotech One, Richmond, VA 23298, United States of America.
Linda Gives Back, LLC, United States of America.
Addict Behav. 2019 Aug;95:24-27. doi: 10.1016/j.addbeh.2019.02.019. Epub 2019 Feb 21.
The use of e-cigarette devices, specifically JUUL, is on the rise on college campuses. Traditional means of collecting and analyzing research may not be fast enough for health professionals to effectively assess, plan, and implement effective prevention/intervention strategies.
In August 2018, during incoming student orientation sessions at seven different college campuses, data was collected on a specific e-cigarette, JUUL. Data on use and knowledge of JUUL, as well as traditional cigarette use, was collected via immediate electronic audience response devices. Analyses included calculating descriptive statistics for questions of interest.
Because response on each item was optional and anonymous, participation on specific questions varied and the total sample size for the questions of interest ranged from 1940 to 2027 students. Mean daily use rates were 13.7% (11.6-18.0%) for JUUL and 1.7% (1.3-2.5%) for cigarettes. Most students (67.3%) knew that JUUL always contained nicotine (38.4-84.5%), although 30.1% believed that it just contained nicotine and/or flavored vapor (15.5-50.0%), and 2.1% thought it was flavored vapor only (0.0-5.9%).
This study reports the highest daily use of e-cigarettes among college students in the literature to date, with past-month e-cigarette use and daily cigarette use on par with previous estimates. Findings also highlight the knowledge gaps that some users have about JUUL specifically. In order for college health educators and professionals to best help students, adoption of methods that allow for more rapid assessment of e-cigarette trends is needed. This will help campuses more effectively address this issue, closing the research-to-practice gap in college health.
电子烟装置（尤其是 JUUL）在大学校园中的使用呈上升趋势。传统的收集和分析研究的方法可能不够快，无法让健康专业人员有效地评估、计划和实施有效的预防/干预策略。
2018 年 8 月，在七所不同大学校园的新生入学指导期间，收集了一种特定电子烟 JUUL 的数据。通过即时电子受众反应设备收集关于 JUUL 使用和知识以及传统香烟使用的数据。分析包括计算感兴趣问题的描述性统计数据。
由于对每个项目的回答都是可选的和匿名的，因此对特定问题的参与程度各不相同，对感兴趣问题的总样本量从 1940 名到 2027 名学生不等。JUUL 的日使用率平均为 13.7%（11.6-18.0%），香烟的使用率为 1.7%（1.3-2.5%）。大多数学生（67.3%）知道 JUUL 总是含有尼古丁（38.4-84.5%），尽管 30.1%的学生认为它只含有尼古丁和/或调味蒸汽（15.5-50.0%），2.1%的学生认为它只含有调味蒸汽（0.0-5.9%）。
本研究报告了迄今为止大学生电子烟使用率最高的研究，过去一个月电子烟使用率和每日香烟使用率与之前的估计相当。研究结果还突出了一些用户对 JUUL 特定方面的知识差距。为了让大学生健康教育工作者和专业人员更好地帮助学生，需要采用能够更快速评估电子烟趋势的方法。这将有助于校园更有效地解决这个问题，缩小大学生健康领域的研究与实践差距。
