How Do Adolescent Smoking Prevention Interventions Work in Different Contextual Settings? A Qualitative Comparative Study Between the UK and Colombia.
Sharon Sánchez-FrancoShannon C MontgomeryErika S Torres-NarvaezAna M RamírezJennifer M MurrayChristopher TateBlanca LlorenteLinda BauldRuth F HunterFrank KeeOlga Lucía SarmientoPublished in: International journal of behavioral medicine (2023)
These findings have highlighted how both individual factors and contextual resources influence behavior change for smoking prevention in practice. Local contextual factors and social influences affecting pupils should be taken into account in the implementation and evaluation of health behavior change interventions. In particular, this study supports using social and contextual influence strategies in interventions to reduce the onset of adolescent smoking and vaping.