The Public Health Agency are carrying out an important study on the views and experiences of young people towards e-cigarettes/vaping. This study will help them understand young people’s knowledge, perceptions, beliefs and attitudes towards vaping and inform the future design of targeted interventions and communications with regards to vape use by young people.
They would like to invite post-primary school pupils to participate in an on-line survey. The PHA do not have access to the name and contact details of your child so they will be invited to take part in the survey by an email distributed through their own School.
Why this survey is needed?
Your child’s feedback is important as it is the best way for us to understand their knowledge and perceptions of the health risks of e-cigarette use, exposure to the promotion of e-cigarettes and their experiences. It will allow us to determine why young people vape and identify any barriers that may prevent young people to stop using e-cigarettes/vapes.
We are currently working on developing a resource bank that can be used by children and young people, schools, and parents and an essential part of this is to understand young people’s perceptions and behaviours towards vaping.
The information gathered through this survey contributes to:
• an insight into beliefs, attitudes and behaviours to vaping amongst young people;
• future messaging to encourage young people not to vape and reduce the uptake of vaping among young people;
• future messaging to encourage young people who vape to quit;
• development of a resource bank with the aim of educating on the potential risks of vaping.
The survey is open to all young people attending post primary schoools in Northern Ireland.
It should take no longer than 10-15 minutes to complete. The closing date is June 16th and it can be accessed here
