Co-designing strategies to prevent youth e-cigarette appeal, access and uptake

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About the project

This research aims to develop new and innovative responses to the use of e-cigarettes and other novel tobacco products and make recommendations for interventions and services to prevent uptake, delay first use, and reduce nicotine addiction among young people (13-17 years) in Western Australia.

The objectives are:

1. Document existing e-cigarette and other novel tobacco product prevention strategies, cessation support, activities and policies operating in (Western) Australia, and other high-income countries.

2. Determine the factors (i.e., individual, interpersonal, organisational, community, societal) associated with e-cigarette and other novel tobacco product access and use by young people in (Western) Australia, and other high-income countries.

3. Determine parental and high school professionals’ knowledge, attitudes and beliefs about e-cigarettes and other novel tobacco products and their role in preventing/facilitating uptake among young people in (Western) Australia, and other high-income countries.

4. Co-design with young people recommendations for potential intervention/s and/or education campaigns to prevent e-cigarette and other novel tobacco product appeal, access and uptake.

5. Co-design with end-users' appropriate recommendations (educational, regulatory, organisational, policy) to prevent e-cigarette and other novel tobacco product appeal, access and uptake among young people in (Western) Australia.

Project Manager

Dr Kahlia McCausland

  • Funder: Healthway (Exploratory)
  • Project Duration: 2021 – 2024
  • Ethical Approval: HRE2021-0676
  • Project staff: Francene Leaversuch

Visual data summary

McCausland K, Booth S, Leaversuch F, Freeman B, Wolf K, Leaver T, Jancey J. 2024. Socio-ecological factors that influence youth vaping: Perspectives from Western Australian school professionals, parents and young people. International Journal of Qualitative Studies on Health and Well-being, 19:1

McCausland K, Thomas L, Freeman B, Wolf K, Leaver T, Jancey J. 2024. Vaping Prevention Plan for Schools: Co-designed strategies to improve responses to vaping amongst young people in Western Australian schools. Tobacco Vape Research Collective, Curtin University.

Chief Investigators

School of Population Health, Curtin University
School of Management and Marketing, Curtin University
School of Media, Creative Arts and Social Inquiry, Curtin University
School of Public Health, University of Sydney
School of Population Health, Curtin University