Megan E Roberts
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 3583474 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Megan E Roberts |
| PRENOMES | Megan E |
| SOBRENOME | Roberts |
| ASSINATURA | ROBERTS M E |
| AFILIAÇÕES | The Ohio State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4743-2145 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 35 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 75 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 35 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2011 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 5 |
Shaping Youth Tobacco Use
Objectives: Research has established that increasing policy support among adults can encourage behavior change; however, policy support, particularly regarding Tobacco 21 (T21), remains understudied among youth. This study examines whether exposure to T21 policy messages can increase support for the policy and reduce intentions to use tobacco among youth.Methods: We recruited an online convenience sample of U.S. youth aged 18–20 (final analytic N…
Adult tobacco product use patterns across the urban–rural continuum
PURPOSE: To determine the association between adult tobacco/nicotine product use over time and residence location (urban, suburban, town, rural), controlling for demographics. METHODS: Data from Waves 4-7 (2016-2023) of the Population Assessment of Tobacco and Health (PATH) study (N = 18,590 adults) were analyzed using survey-weighted logistic regression to evaluate location and time differences in likelihoods of current, daily, and established u…
Adolescents’ and Young Adults’ use of “Boost” mode in their E-cigarettes
If, as brands claim, boost modes alter e-cigarette aerosol production, they likely have implications for AYA nicotine addiction and health effects. Longitudinal and laboratory investigations on boost modes are urgently needed
Modelling how age-restricted location policies would impact tobacco retailer density in four US states
The degree of TRD reduction estimated by these simulation models for an ARL policy is more powerful than what has been found for other retailer-focused strategies (eg, prohibiting tobacco retailers close to schools). ARL policies could be a promising and potentially powerful strategy for reducing TRD in the USA
Urban–rural disparities in oral nicotine pouch sales and flavors in the United States
ONP sales exhibit significant urban-rural disparities, with rural areas showing higher per capita sales overall, but urban areas showing stronger preferences for flavored products and greater price responsiveness. As a result, regulatory measures targeting flavors or pricing may have a greater impact in urban areas compared to rural ones
Real-Time Evaluation of Craving, Withdrawal, and Respiratory Symptoms Among Adolescents and Young Adults Who Use e-Cigarettes
BACKGROUND: A growing body of work has identified short-term harms of e-cigarette use that may be indicative of long-term harm. Ecological momentary assessment (EMA) is a methodology that can contribute to these efforts, as it lends itself to capturing moment-to-moment changes in symptoms as people go about their natural environments. This study leveraged EMA to assess the correspondence between instances of e-cigarette use and changes in self-re…
Community Awareness-Raising to Support Tobacco Policy
BACKGROUND: The tobacco retailer environment (TRE) harms communities, but the implementation of policies to address it have been slow and uneven and receive tepid public support. OBJECTIVE: To test whether a smartphone app's photo-mapping activity could raise community awareness of the TRE. METHODS: This was a non-randomized study with a pre-post design. For three weeks, 75 university students engaged with the app, which incentivized participants…
A comparison of classifications for geographic location and their associations with tobacco use among US adults
PURPOSE: This study compared two classifications of rurality and their associations with cigarette, e-cigarette, and smokeless tobacco (SLT) use among a nationally representative sample of 31,196 US adults. METHODS: Data from Wave 1 of the Population Assessment of Tobacco and Health Study. Weighted descriptive statistics and multivariable logistic regressions assessed whether two classifications of rurality were differentially associated with pas…
Tobacco retailer density and rurality across four US states
PURPOSE: Research has demonstrated many types of disparities in tobacco retailer density (TRD), but these analyses often fail to explore rural disparities. Given the substantial burden of rural tobacco use in the USA, this is a critical gap. The purpose of the present study was to estimate rural disparities in TRD across four US states. METHODS: For the states of California, Connecticut, North Carolina, and Ohio, we used spatial statistical metho…
Prospective associations between nicotine type and the continuation of youth e-cigarette use
Our findings suggest that, when it comes to predicting the continuation of vaping among youth who have already initiated, nicotine type (i.e., the ratio of R- and S-isomers) may play a critical role. It is encouraging that R/S nicotine may have lower addictive potential; however, tobacco control should be vigilant for marketing strategies attempting to establish R/S nicotine e-cigarettes as "starter" products for youth
I'm sure within 5 minutes I can find someone that will be selling it’
Despite Massachusetts implementing a comprehensive flavoured tobacco restriction (FTR), young adults report being able to access flavoured tobacco products with ease. Snapchat was the social media platform that participants brought up frequently to find people selling flavoured tobacco products. Preventing the sale of flavoured tobacco products through Snapchat and other social sources will be critical for Massachusetts' FTR to have its intended …
Colour attributes in packaging of oral nicotine pouches
Our results suggest the colour scheme of some ONP packaging was designed to indicate the flavour and nicotine concentration. These characteristics may influence consumers' beliefs about ONPs, and appeal to different populations. AI tools can be valuable in the surveillance of those ONP packaging features
Impact of the California state flavoured tobacco sales restriction on e-cigarette use behaviours among youth
We observed limited change in the use of flavoured e-cigarettes after a state-wide law restricting flavoured tobacco sales was enacted. Findings may reflect inadequate implementation (eg, insufficient enforcement efforts), which warrants further study to reduce youth access to flavoured tobacco products
Prospective association of tobacco retailer density and neighbourhood walkability with youth vaping initiation in California, USA
Findings highlight the potential role of restricting retailer density in preventing youth vaping, particularly in areas characterised by both greater walkability and tobacco retailer density
Age Restricted Location Policies
The Effects of Oral Nicotine Pouch Packaging Features on Adult Tobacco Users’ and Non-Users’ Product Perceptions
The study findings demonstrate that the nicotine concentration displayed on ONP packaging can affect adults' perceptions of ONPs. Further research on the effects of ONP packaging features emphasizing nicotine (e.g., "tobacco free" nicotine claims) on tobacco users and non-users is needed to assess their potential public health impact
Juul and its ‘Action Network’ attempt to prevent a local flavour ban
What do young people know about the nicotine in their e-cigarettes
These findings indicate the generally limited awareness about nicotine among youth who used e-cigarettes. Improvements in health communications and requirements for e-cigarette industry disclosures are necessary to ensure that consumers are better informed about the dimensions-and the risks-of the nicotine they are consuming
Geographic Differences in Juul Use and Risk Perceptions
PURPOSE: The aim of this study was to compare prevalence of JUUL use and JUUL risk perceptions between adolescents living in an urban area versus Appalachian areas of the U.S. METHODS: Data were drawn from a prospective cohort study of adolescent males (the Buckeye Teen Health Study, or BTHS); our cross-sectional analysis used data from one timepoint, collected between January and December 2019 (N = 873). Chi-square tests and multivariable logist…
Factors Associated with Quit Interest and Quit Attempts among Young Adult Juul Users
Despite reports suggesting young people are interested in quitting e-cigarettes, little work has examined predictors of quit outcomes. This study aimed to identify factors associated with quit outcomes among JUUL e-cigarette users in a longitudinal sample of young adults. We assessed undergraduate past-30-day JUUL users during autumn 2018 ( N = 225); Our outcomes included short-term quit attempts and interest (spring 2019), and long-term quit att…
Associations between Cognitive and Affective Responses to Tobacco Advertisements and Tobacco Use Incidence
Exposure to tobacco advertisements is associated with initiation of tobacco use among youth. The mechanisms underlying this association are less clear. We estimated longitudinal associations between youths' cognitive and affective responses to advertisements for cigarettes, e-cigarettes, and smokeless tobacco (SLT) and initiation of these products. N = 1220 Ohio-residing boys of ages 11-16 were recruited into a cohort in 2015 and 2016. Participan…
Waterpipe Warning Placement and Risk Perceptions
Objectives: The purpose of this study was to select a health warning message location on a waterpipe (WP) that both attracted visual attention and conveyed the risks associated with WP smoking. Methods: During June through November 2019, we conducted a within-subjects randomized experiment (N = 74) using eye tracking equipment to examine visual attention to 3 placements of a health warning on the WP (stem, water bowl, hose). We asked young adult …
Retailer density reduction approaches to tobacco control
The legacy of redlining
Switching stories
This study presents a foundation for understanding how adult users describe JUUL, including their experiences using JUUL to 'switch' or stop smoking. Currently, the effectiveness of ENDS for smoking cessation is not supported by substantial evidence; however, if cessation is defined as 'quitting combustible tobacco products', then regulators should be aware that switch and cessation messages may not be distinct
From racial discrimination to risky sex
This study investigated how early experience with racial discrimination affected the subsequent risky sexual behaviors of a diverse sample of African American youths (N = 745). The analyses focused on 3 risk-promoting factors thought to mediate the hypothesized discrimination → risky sex relation: negative affect, affiliation with deviant peers, and favorable attitudes toward risky sex. In addition, attentive parenting was examined as a protectiv…
The impact of stress on the life history strategies of African American adolescents
The impact of 3 different sources of stress--environmental, familial (e.g., low parental investment), and interpersonal (i.e., racial discrimination)--on the life history strategies (LHS) and associated cognitions of African American adolescents were examined over an 11-year period (5 waves, from age 10.5 to 21.5). Analyses indicated that each one of the sources of stress was associated with faster LHS cognitions (e.g., tolerance of deviance, wil…
The legacy of redlining
Validation of a new continuous geographic isolation scale
Rural tobacco use across the United States
Rural Versus Urban Use of Traditional and Emerging Tobacco Products in the United States, 2013–2014
Objectives. To examine urban–rural differences in US prevalences of traditional and emerging tobacco product use as well as dual or polytobacco use of these products. Methods. Our data were derived from wave 1 (2013–2014) of the Population Assessment of Tobacco and Health (PATH) Study. We estimated weighted prevalences of adult tobacco use across urban–rural geographies and examined prevalences classified by gender, poverty level, and region of t…
From racial discrimination to risky sex
This study investigated how early experience with racial discrimination affected the subsequent risky sexual behaviors of a diverse sample of African American youths (N = 745). The analyses focused on 3 risk-promoting factors thought to mediate the hypothesized discrimination → risky sex relation: negative affect, affiliation with deviant peers, and favorable attitudes toward risky sex. In addition, attentive parenting was examined as a protectiv…
The impact of stress on the life history strategies of African American adolescents
The impact of 3 different sources of stress--environmental, familial (e.g., low parental investment), and interpersonal (i.e., racial discrimination)--on the life history strategies (LHS) and associated cognitions of African American adolescents were examined over an 11-year period (5 waves, from age 10.5 to 21.5). Analyses indicated that each one of the sources of stress was associated with faster LHS cognitions (e.g., tolerance of deviance, wil…
Partner‐AMP and well‐being
The current research presents an adapted Affect Misattribution Procedure (AMP) to assess the aspects of the relational schema of romantic partners that are difficult to verbalize and tests the prediction that a positive implicit image of the partner constitutes a psychological resource that increases well‐being. In Study 1, the partner‐AMP predicted well‐being in student participants even after controlling for explicit partner attitudes and socia…
Rural tobacco use across the United States
Rural Versus Urban Use of Traditional and Emerging Tobacco Products in the United States, 2013–2014
Objectives. To examine urban–rural differences in US prevalences of traditional and emerging tobacco product use as well as dual or polytobacco use of these products. Methods. Our data were derived from wave 1 (2013–2014) of the Population Assessment of Tobacco and Health (PATH) Study. We estimated weighted prevalences of adult tobacco use across urban–rural geographies and examined prevalences classified by gender, poverty level, and region of t…
Validation of a new continuous geographic isolation scale
Regional Rural‐Urban Differences in E‐Cigarette Use and Reasons for Use in the United States
PURPOSE: To determine whether there are rural/urban differences in e-cigarette use and reasons for use that vary across the 10 Health & Human Services (HHS) regions. METHODS: Age-adjusted bivariate and multivariable analyses were conducted for n = 225,413 respondents to the 2014-2015 Tobacco Use Supplement-Current Population Survey to estimate the prevalence of e-cigarette use. Reasons for e-cigarette use were collected from n = 16,023 self-respo…
Adolescent males’ responses to blu’s fake warnings
Adolescents viewing an advertisement with a fake warning were less likely to recall the advertisement's actual warning or health risks. Although e-cigarette advertisements now carry large FDA-mandated warnings, this tactic could be used for cigarette advertisements that continue to carry small warnings in the USA. Findings underscore the necessity of tobacco advertisement surveillance and study of advertisements' effects on adolescents
The Relationship of the Terms Vape and E-Cigarette With Newspaper Content
Objectives. To conduct a content analysis of news articles to investigate the relationship between language used to describe e-cigarettes, how the news articles framed (conveyed information to influence a certain perception of the news read by its audience) e-cigarettes, and the Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA’s) oversight of e-cigarettes. Methods. We searched a database of articles published across the United States from February 1, 2016, to…
Switching stories
This study presents a foundation for understanding how adult users describe JUUL, including their experiences using JUUL to 'switch' or stop smoking. Currently, the effectiveness of ENDS for smoking cessation is not supported by substantial evidence; however, if cessation is defined as 'quitting combustible tobacco products', then regulators should be aware that switch and cessation messages may not be distinct
Evaluating how licensing-law strategies will impact disparities in tobacco retailer density
Licensing-law strategies could be a central tobacco control effort that benefits both the overall population and vulnerable communities. Policymakers will need to consider their community's characteristics when selecting licensing-law strategies to correct (rather than inadvertently widen) density disparities. But when matched with the appropriate strategy, high-risk communities could remove over 20% of their tobacco retailers
Associations between Cognitive and Affective Responses to Tobacco Advertisements and Tobacco Use Incidence
Exposure to tobacco advertisements is associated with initiation of tobacco use among youth. The mechanisms underlying this association are less clear. We estimated longitudinal associations between youths' cognitive and affective responses to advertisements for cigarettes, e-cigarettes, and smokeless tobacco (SLT) and initiation of these products. N = 1220 Ohio-residing boys of ages 11-16 were recruited into a cohort in 2015 and 2016. Participan…
Waterpipe Warning Placement and Risk Perceptions
Objectives: The purpose of this study was to select a health warning message location on a waterpipe (WP) that both attracted visual attention and conveyed the risks associated with WP smoking. Methods: During June through November 2019, we conducted a within-subjects randomized experiment (N = 74) using eye tracking equipment to examine visual attention to 3 placements of a health warning on the WP (stem, water bowl, hose). We asked young adult …
Retailer density reduction approaches to tobacco control
The legacy of redlining
Geographic Differences in Juul Use and Risk Perceptions
PURPOSE: The aim of this study was to compare prevalence of JUUL use and JUUL risk perceptions between adolescents living in an urban area versus Appalachian areas of the U.S. METHODS: Data were drawn from a prospective cohort study of adolescent males (the Buckeye Teen Health Study, or BTHS); our cross-sectional analysis used data from one timepoint, collected between January and December 2019 (N = 873). Chi-square tests and multivariable logist…
Factors Associated with Quit Interest and Quit Attempts among Young Adult Juul Users
Despite reports suggesting young people are interested in quitting e-cigarettes, little work has examined predictors of quit outcomes. This study aimed to identify factors associated with quit outcomes among JUUL e-cigarette users in a longitudinal sample of young adults. We assessed undergraduate past-30-day JUUL users during autumn 2018 ( N = 225); Our outcomes included short-term quit attempts and interest (spring 2019), and long-term quit att…
The Effects of Oral Nicotine Pouch Packaging Features on Adult Tobacco Users’ and Non-Users’ Product Perceptions
The study findings demonstrate that the nicotine concentration displayed on ONP packaging can affect adults' perceptions of ONPs. Further research on the effects of ONP packaging features emphasizing nicotine (e.g., "tobacco free" nicotine claims) on tobacco users and non-users is needed to assess their potential public health impact
Juul and its ‘Action Network’ attempt to prevent a local flavour ban
What do young people know about the nicotine in their e-cigarettes
These findings indicate the generally limited awareness about nicotine among youth who used e-cigarettes. Improvements in health communications and requirements for e-cigarette industry disclosures are necessary to ensure that consumers are better informed about the dimensions-and the risks-of the nicotine they are consuming
Real-Time Evaluation of Craving, Withdrawal, and Respiratory Symptoms Among Adolescents and Young Adults Who Use e-Cigarettes
BACKGROUND: A growing body of work has identified short-term harms of e-cigarette use that may be indicative of long-term harm. Ecological momentary assessment (EMA) is a methodology that can contribute to these efforts, as it lends itself to capturing moment-to-moment changes in symptoms as people go about their natural environments. This study leveraged EMA to assess the correspondence between instances of e-cigarette use and changes in self-re…
Community Awareness-Raising to Support Tobacco Policy
BACKGROUND: The tobacco retailer environment (TRE) harms communities, but the implementation of policies to address it have been slow and uneven and receive tepid public support. OBJECTIVE: To test whether a smartphone app's photo-mapping activity could raise community awareness of the TRE. METHODS: This was a non-randomized study with a pre-post design. For three weeks, 75 university students engaged with the app, which incentivized participants…
A comparison of classifications for geographic location and their associations with tobacco use among US adults
PURPOSE: This study compared two classifications of rurality and their associations with cigarette, e-cigarette, and smokeless tobacco (SLT) use among a nationally representative sample of 31,196 US adults. METHODS: Data from Wave 1 of the Population Assessment of Tobacco and Health Study. Weighted descriptive statistics and multivariable logistic regressions assessed whether two classifications of rurality were differentially associated with pas…
Tobacco retailer density and rurality across four US states
PURPOSE: Research has demonstrated many types of disparities in tobacco retailer density (TRD), but these analyses often fail to explore rural disparities. Given the substantial burden of rural tobacco use in the USA, this is a critical gap. The purpose of the present study was to estimate rural disparities in TRD across four US states. METHODS: For the states of California, Connecticut, North Carolina, and Ohio, we used spatial statistical metho…
Prospective associations between nicotine type and the continuation of youth e-cigarette use
Our findings suggest that, when it comes to predicting the continuation of vaping among youth who have already initiated, nicotine type (i.e., the ratio of R- and S-isomers) may play a critical role. It is encouraging that R/S nicotine may have lower addictive potential; however, tobacco control should be vigilant for marketing strategies attempting to establish R/S nicotine e-cigarettes as "starter" products for youth
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