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A Tailored mHealth Vaping Prevention Intervention for Adolescents with Congenital Heart Defects
TS-002164 — Congenital heart defects (CHD) are the most common birth defects with an occurrence rate of 1 in every 110 births. When transferring from pediatric to adult care, one-third of adolescents are in optimal cardiovascular health. Due to this, health behavior intervention is ideal in adolescence. This is especially crucial when youths report using e-cigarettes or the possibility of using one in the future. Researcher, Kristen Fox, at Nationwide Children’s Hospital created a tailored mHealth Vaping Prevention program for adolescents with CHD to reduce engagement with health risk behaviors. The curriculum is improved with added topics surrounding stress management and disease knowledge with the implementation of gamification and animations to facilitate knowledge and sustain engagement about tobacco product education.
By utilizing the mHealth format, the curriculum will reach and engage adolescents with content that classroom-based programs cannot or failed to in the past. For example, the curriculum includes a module about stress management that will cover goal setting, sleep hygiene, problem solving/ coping and…
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  • Inventors: Fox, Kristen
  • Licensing Officer: Corris, Andrew

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