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An Exploratory Study On Strategies Adopted By Parents Who Use E-Cigarettes To Negotiate Risk Perceptions Of Their Children's Secondhand Exposure And Parental Role Modeling, Joon Kyung Nam, Jesse P Zatloff, Su-Wei Wong, Hsien-Chang Lin, Wei-Chung Su, Anne Buu May 2023

An Exploratory Study On Strategies Adopted By Parents Who Use E-Cigarettes To Negotiate Risk Perceptions Of Their Children's Secondhand Exposure And Parental Role Modeling, Joon Kyung Nam, Jesse P Zatloff, Su-Wei Wong, Hsien-Chang Lin, Wei-Chung Su, Anne Buu

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Existing health messages mainly targeted youth susceptible to vaping or parents who do not have much knowledge about e-cigarettes. This study makes a unique contribution by conducting the first in-depth investigation of e-cigarette-using parents' risk perceptions and parental role modeling and how these two factors affect their vaping behaviors at home or implementation of any strategies to reduce their children's risk. Fifteen parents who used e-cigarettes participated in a semi-structured interview. Interview transcripts were coded and analyzed through a deductive approach of thematic analysis. This study demonstrates the need to develop and disseminate future health messages for e-cigarette-using parents who …


Pm25 Metal Constituent Exposure And Stillbirth Risk In Harris County, Texas, Amal Rammah, Kristina W Whitworth, Inkyu Han, Wenyaw Chan, Elaine Symanski Sep 2019

Pm25 Metal Constituent Exposure And Stillbirth Risk In Harris County, Texas, Amal Rammah, Kristina W Whitworth, Inkyu Han, Wenyaw Chan, Elaine Symanski

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There is limited evidence on the role of exposure to chemical constituents of fine particulate matter (PM