Measuring for Change is a pre-post study that will take place in four European countries, testing a novel air quality feedback intervention. The study, led by the University of Aberdeen, runs from 2016-2018. It uses a new low-cost air quality monitor and innovative text- and email-based feedback on the impact of smoking on indoor air quality to motivate behaviour change and encourage parents to make their homes smoke-free. This targeted intervention, for use with socio-economically deprived smokers, will be tested in 200 households in total, across Scotland, Spain, Greece and Italy. The University of Aberdeen is currently finalising the software that will be used in the study, and recruitment will begin during May 2017. Measuring for Change was granted ethical approval in February 2017 from the University of Aberdeen’s College of Life Sciences and Medicine Ethical Review Board (application number CERB/2016/12/1412).
The University of Aberdeen is also involved in Work Package 2 of TackSHS, which is being led by colleagues in Catalonia. The main goal of this study is to assess the environmental levels of SHS in non-regulated settings such as private (home/car) and outdoor settings (terraces of hospitality venues, playparks and school entrances). This work is being conducted across 12 European countries (Bulgaria, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Spain and United Kingdom) representing geographical, legislative (country-specific smoke-free policies) and cultural variations across Europe. A total of 1,080 environmental measurements of airborne nicotine will be collected. Work Package 2 received ethical approval from The Clinical Research Ethical Committee of the Parc de Salut Mar, Barcelona (application number 2016/6725/1) in June 2016.
In Aberdeen, we have applied for local ethical approval to measure environmental levels of SHS in Edinburgh and the Lothians. We anticipate that work will begin on this in April 2017.
The TackSHS project is funded by the European Union’s Horizon 2020 Programme (Grant No 681040).
The University of Aberdeen is also involved in Work Package 2 of TackSHS, which is being led by colleagues in Catalonia. The main goal of this study is to assess the environmental levels of SHS in non-regulated settings such as private (home/car) and outdoor settings (terraces of hospitality venues, playparks and school entrances). This work is being conducted across 12 European countries (Bulgaria, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Spain and United Kingdom) representing geographical, legislative (country-specific smoke-free policies) and cultural variations across Europe. A total of 1,080 environmental measurements of airborne nicotine will be collected. Work Package 2 received ethical approval from The Clinical Research Ethical Committee of the Parc de Salut Mar, Barcelona (application number 2016/6725/1) in June 2016.
In Aberdeen, we have applied for local ethical approval to measure environmental levels of SHS in Edinburgh and the Lothians. We anticipate that work will begin on this in April 2017.
The TackSHS project is funded by the European Union’s Horizon 2020 Programme (Grant No 681040).
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