Adolescent exposure to cannabis marketing following recreational cannabis legalization in Canada: A pilot study using ecological momentary assessment
| Autor: | Chelsea Noël, Deborah M. Scharf, Rupert Klein, Christopher Armiento, Anna J. Kone Pefoyo, Michel Bédard |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
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Research paper
Evening Adolescent media_common.quotation_subject Ecological Momentary Assessment 030508 substance abuse Medicine (miscellaneous) Context (language use) 03 medical and health sciences Promotion (rank) Social pathology. Social and public welfare. Criminology Advertising Psychology Marketing Pharmacology Toxicology and Pharmaceutics (miscellaneous) Recreation HV1-9960 media_common Legalization Cannabis 030505 public health biology Ecology Marketing channel Cannabis use biology.organism_classification BF1-990 Psychiatry and Mental health Clinical Psychology Recreational 0305 other medical science |
| Zdroj: | Addictive Behaviors Reports, Vol 14, Iss, Pp 100383-(2021) Addictive Behaviors Reports |
| ISSN: | 2352-8532 |
| Popis: | Highlights • Cannabis advertising reaches adolescents. • Ecological momentary assessment (EMA) captures adolescent exposure to cannabis ads. • EMA can be used to assess cannabis advertising policies designed to protect youth. Objective The goal of this pilot study was to assess the feasibility of a 9-day, smartphone-based ecological momentary assessment (EMA) protocol for tracking the frequency of Canadian adolescents’ exposures to cannabis marketing, their reactions to such exposures, and the context in which exposures occur in the real-world and in real-time. Method Participants were n = 18 adolescents between the ages of 14 and 18 years of age. They used an EMA application to capture and describe cannabis marketing exposures through photographs and brief questionnaires assessing marketing channel and context. Participants also rated their reactions to each exposure in real-time. Results Results showed that participants were generally compliant with the protocol. Participants recorded 40 total exposures to cannabis marketing, representing an average of 2.2 (SD 2.3) exposures per participant during the 9-day study. Exposures tended to occur in the afternoon (45.0%) or evening (37.5%), and while participants were at home (70%) and alone (52.5%). Most exposures occurred through promotion by public figures (27.5%) or explicitly marked internet ads (27.5%). Conclusion This is the first study to demonstrate the feasibility and utility of EMA to capture adolescent exposures to cannabis marketing as it occurs in participants’ natural environments. Our research offers an early look at the predictable wave of cannabis advertising targeting youth and a promising approach for studying its impacts in a post-legalization context, as well as a strategy for assessing policies, such as advertising restrictions, intending to mitigate the harms of early cannabis use among youth. |
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