Mei‐Ling Blank
Biographic Data
| ID | 7688075 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mei‐Ling Blank |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mei‐Ling |
| FAMILY NAME | Blank |
| SIGNATURE | BLANK M L |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Otago |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0728-4598 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
A hopeful journey: Responses to efficacy labels from people using RYO tobacco in Aotearoa New Zealand
On-pack efficacy labels could complement PWLs and support people to address the threat these warnings describe. Policymakers should explore and implement interventions such as efficacy stimuli, given these appear to resonate with priority population groups and could help reduce health inequities
Navigating social interactions and constructing vaping social identities: A qualitative exploration with New Zealand young adults who smoke
E-cigarette flavours and vaping as a social practice: Implications for tobacco control
E-liquid flavours are perhaps the most materially disruptive aspect of vaping compared with smoking, especially for people who smoke tobacco and who wish to quit. A better understanding of whether and how e-liquid flavours create personal and social value for people who smoke may offer insights into how vaping has become a social practice among this group. These insights may be useful for countries such as New Zealand, where health authorities ha…
New Zealand roll‐your‐own smokers' reaction to novel roll‐your‐own tobacco packaging warning labels
A framework for understanding spirituality and healthy ageing: Perspectives from Aotearoa New Zealand
Spirituality permeates our land, our waters, and our people; it is inherent in Māori culture, often explicit for new migrants, but frequently ignored or tokenistically acknowledged in mainstream culture. Older New Zealanders are a pluralistic population, often fiercely secular, with a small but active religious population. How we now treat our elders requires work, needs careful consideration, and vision. As a country, New Zealand has embraced th…
A Descriptive Analysis of Transitions from Smoking to Electronic Nicotine Delivery System (ENDS) Use: A Daily Diary Investigation
The considerable variety observed within and between study participants suggests that high variability is typical rather than exceptional. Transitions from smoking to ENDS use may involve considerable periods of dual use, which is likely to be dynamic and potentially sustained over several months
Roll-your-own loose tobacco packaging warning labels: A qualitative study using a novel elicitation method
Our findings reinforce the importance of high-affect arousing PWLs and suggest involving smokers in the formative creation of PWLs may result in markedly more impactful warnings. Linking PWLs to the type of tobacco smoked may also reduce the rationalisations smokers employ to discount warnings, and result in warnings that prompt engagement and personal reflection
It’s Just Steam: A qualitative analysis of New Zealand ENDS users’ perceptions of secondhand aerosol
In the absence of trusted information, participants used sensory heuristics to rationalise their ENDS practices. Policy-makers face the challenge of correcting misperceptions about SHA without deterring full transition from smoking to ENDS use. They could consider including vaping in current smoke-free area policies; this measure would signal that SHA is not harmless, and could protect clean-air settings and reduce potential normalisation of vapi…
Is the tobacco ‘footfall’ argument justified for tobacco purchases in New Zealand convenience stores
Our results do not support claims that tobacco drives one-quarter of footfall into stores or that customers who purchase tobacco spend almost twice as much as non-tobacco customers. Combined purchases of tobacco and non-tobacco items constituted 5.5% of transactions; the impact on a store's profitability of removing tobacco sales is unknown and could be the focus of future research
Roll-your-own smokers’ reactions to cessation-efficacy messaging integrated into tobacco packaging design: A sequential mixed-methods study
Integrating cessation-related messaging within tobacco packaging could be a high reach, just-in-time micro-intervention at the point of decision-making. Enhanced efficacy messages could complement and enhance PWLs, and support quitting among groups where smoking prevalence is especially high
Butting out: An analysis of support for measures to address tobacco product waste
Strategies to increase awareness of tobacco companies' role in creating TPW could foster political support for producer responsibility measures that require the industry to manage TPW. Nevertheless, policy measures should continue to foster smoking cessation and decrease uptake, as reducing smoking prevalence presents the best long-term solution to addressing TPW
Layers of engagement: Staff perceptions of spiritual care in residential aged care
Addressing the spiritual care needs of residents living in aged-care facilities should be an important dimension of quality care. We conducted semi-structured interviews with residential aged-care staff (including caregivers, nurses, managers, and chaplains) in New Zealand to explore how spiritual care is understood and operationalized. Many participants appeared to equate spiritual care with holistic care that respects the whole person. Particip…
Young adult susceptible non-smokers’ and smokers’ responses to capsule cigarettes
FCVs appeal more to non-smokers than to smokers, and more to non-daily smokers than to daily smokers. They thus appear likely to recruit non-smokers and potentially increase overall smoking prevalence. Policy responses include ensuring standardised packaging legislation disallows FCVs by specifically regulating the appearance and design of tobacco products, or introducing bespoke regulation that addresses the threat posed by FCVs
Dual use of electronic nicotine delivery systems (ENDS) and smoked tobacco: A qualitative analysis
Dual use reflects both social and physical cues. It assisted participants to navigate smoking restrictions and allowed them to manage divergent norms. Policies that discourage smoking, particularly excise tax increases on smoked tobacco and smoke-free space restrictions, appear important in prompting ENDS use. Future research could explore whether these policies also help foster complete transition from smoking to exclusive ENDS use
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Layers of engagement: Staff perceptions of spiritual care in residential aged care
Addressing the spiritual care needs of residents living in aged-care facilities should be an important dimension of quality care. We conducted semi-structured interviews with residential aged-care staff (including caregivers, nurses, managers, and chaplains) in New Zealand to explore how spiritual care is understood and operationalized. Many participants appeared to equate spiritual care with holistic care that respects the whole person. Particip…
Young adult susceptible non-smokers’ and smokers’ responses to capsule cigarettes
FCVs appeal more to non-smokers than to smokers, and more to non-daily smokers than to daily smokers. They thus appear likely to recruit non-smokers and potentially increase overall smoking prevalence. Policy responses include ensuring standardised packaging legislation disallows FCVs by specifically regulating the appearance and design of tobacco products, or introducing bespoke regulation that addresses the threat posed by FCVs
Dual use of electronic nicotine delivery systems (ENDS) and smoked tobacco: A qualitative analysis
Dual use reflects both social and physical cues. It assisted participants to navigate smoking restrictions and allowed them to manage divergent norms. Policies that discourage smoking, particularly excise tax increases on smoked tobacco and smoke-free space restrictions, appear important in prompting ENDS use. Future research could explore whether these policies also help foster complete transition from smoking to exclusive ENDS use
Butting out: An analysis of support for measures to address tobacco product waste
Strategies to increase awareness of tobacco companies' role in creating TPW could foster political support for producer responsibility measures that require the industry to manage TPW. Nevertheless, policy measures should continue to foster smoking cessation and decrease uptake, as reducing smoking prevalence presents the best long-term solution to addressing TPW
Roll-your-own loose tobacco packaging warning labels: A qualitative study using a novel elicitation method
Our findings reinforce the importance of high-affect arousing PWLs and suggest involving smokers in the formative creation of PWLs may result in markedly more impactful warnings. Linking PWLs to the type of tobacco smoked may also reduce the rationalisations smokers employ to discount warnings, and result in warnings that prompt engagement and personal reflection
It’s Just Steam: A qualitative analysis of New Zealand ENDS users’ perceptions of secondhand aerosol
In the absence of trusted information, participants used sensory heuristics to rationalise their ENDS practices. Policy-makers face the challenge of correcting misperceptions about SHA without deterring full transition from smoking to ENDS use. They could consider including vaping in current smoke-free area policies; this measure would signal that SHA is not harmless, and could protect clean-air settings and reduce potential normalisation of vapi…
Is the tobacco ‘footfall’ argument justified for tobacco purchases in New Zealand convenience stores
Our results do not support claims that tobacco drives one-quarter of footfall into stores or that customers who purchase tobacco spend almost twice as much as non-tobacco customers. Combined purchases of tobacco and non-tobacco items constituted 5.5% of transactions; the impact on a store's profitability of removing tobacco sales is unknown and could be the focus of future research
Roll-your-own smokers’ reactions to cessation-efficacy messaging integrated into tobacco packaging design: A sequential mixed-methods study
Integrating cessation-related messaging within tobacco packaging could be a high reach, just-in-time micro-intervention at the point of decision-making. Enhanced efficacy messages could complement and enhance PWLs, and support quitting among groups where smoking prevalence is especially high
New Zealand roll‐your‐own smokers' reaction to novel roll‐your‐own tobacco packaging warning labels
A framework for understanding spirituality and healthy ageing: Perspectives from Aotearoa New Zealand
Spirituality permeates our land, our waters, and our people; it is inherent in Māori culture, often explicit for new migrants, but frequently ignored or tokenistically acknowledged in mainstream culture. Older New Zealanders are a pluralistic population, often fiercely secular, with a small but active religious population. How we now treat our elders requires work, needs careful consideration, and vision. As a country, New Zealand has embraced th…
A Descriptive Analysis of Transitions from Smoking to Electronic Nicotine Delivery System (ENDS) Use: A Daily Diary Investigation
The considerable variety observed within and between study participants suggests that high variability is typical rather than exceptional. Transitions from smoking to ENDS use may involve considerable periods of dual use, which is likely to be dynamic and potentially sustained over several months
Navigating social interactions and constructing vaping social identities: A qualitative exploration with New Zealand young adults who smoke
E-cigarette flavours and vaping as a social practice: Implications for tobacco control
E-liquid flavours are perhaps the most materially disruptive aspect of vaping compared with smoking, especially for people who smoke tobacco and who wish to quit. A better understanding of whether and how e-liquid flavours create personal and social value for people who smoke may offer insights into how vaping has become a social practice among this group. These insights may be useful for countries such as New Zealand, where health authorities ha…
A hopeful journey: Responses to efficacy labels from people using RYO tobacco in Aotearoa New Zealand
On-pack efficacy labels could complement PWLs and support people to address the threat these warnings describe. Policymakers should explore and implement interventions such as efficacy stimuli, given these appear to resonate with priority population groups and could help reduce health inequities
Medicine (14 works) · Psychology (12 works) · Smoking Behavior and Cessation (10 works) · Environmental health (8 works) · Behavioral Health and Interventions (6 works) · Business (6 works) · Social Psychology (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Nursing (5 works) · Public health (5 works)