TY - JOUR PY - 2022// TI - A snapshot of parenting practices useful for preventing adolescent vaping JO - Addictive behaviors reports A1 - Jeong Choi, Hye A1 - Miller-Day, Michelle A1 - Hecht, Michael A1 - Glenn, Shannon D. A1 - Lyons, Rachel E. A1 - Greene, Kathryn SP - e100418 EP - e100418 VL - 15 IS - N2 - Introduction Smoking research demonstrates that parents can influence their adolescent's tobacco smoking perceptions and behaviors, but little is known about the protective effects of different parenting practices on adolescent vaping. In this study we investigate how adolescent perceptions of parents' knowledge of their activities and parental media mediation are associated with adolescents' perceptions of vaping and adolescent vaping behaviors. Method Six hundred thirty-nine youth (65.7% female, average age: 14.71 years old) recruited through 4-H clubs in nine states participated in a study evaluating a substance use intervention program. Because the evaluation design could influence participants, we used only baseline data. An online self-reported survey was administrated. Most youth self-identified as White (87.3%) and only handful youth indicated Asian (3.4%), African American (3.4%), American Indian (1.1%), and other or unreported (4.8%). Approximately 60% of youth lived in small town or rural areas in US. Results Analyses revealed that parental knowledge was positively related with adolescent perceived harm of vaping and perceived prevalence of vaping, but was negatively related with perceived acceptability of vaping and social expectancy of vaping. In addition, youth who reported greater parental media mediation were more likely to perceive the harm of vaping and less likely to vape compared with youth with lower parental media mediation. Conclusion These findings suggest that parental education about vaping, including those promoting conversations regarding vaping and vaping ads, may be important to the prevention of adolescent vaping.

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LA - en SN - 2352-8532 UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.abrep.2022.100418 ID - ref1 ER -