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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2022 Apr 1.
Published in final edited form as: Addict Behav. 2020 Dec 11;115:106778. doi: 10.1016/j.addbeh.2020.106778

Table 3.

Response to content, theme, and image variations within vaping prevention messages in two Amazon Mechanical Turk samples of young adults, Spring 2020

Phase 1 (n = 200) Phase 2 (n = 769)a
Perceived message
effectiveness
Likeability Perceived message
effectiveness
Likeability
Coef (95% CI) Coef (95% CI) Coef (95% CI) Coef (95% CI)
Content
 Addiction Ref. Ref. Ref. Ref.
 Harm 0.28 (0.15, 0.41) 0.01 (−0.14, 0.17) 0.40 (0.27, 0.54) −0.02 (−0.17, 0.13)
Theme
 Alone Ref. Ref. Ref. Ref.
 + Flavors 0.10 (−0.03, 0.23) 0.23 (0.07, 0.39) 0.32 (0.17, 0.48) 0.19 (0.02, 0.36)
 + Social −0.09 (−0.22, 0.04) 0.13 (−0.03, 0.29) 0.12 (−0.03, 0.27) 0.21 (0.04, 0.38)
Content x Theme
 Harm + Flavors −0.11 (−0.30, 0.07) −0.16 (−0.39, 0.06) −0.44 (−0.65, −0.23) −0.04 (−0.28, 0.20)
 Harm + Social −0.03 (−0.19, 0.18) −0.12 (−0.34, 0.10) −0.24 (−0.43, −0.04) −0.08 (−0.29, 0.14)
Image
 Likeable image Ref. Ref.
 Effective image −0.003 (−0.14, 0.14) −0.08 (−0.24, 0.08)
Content x Image
 Harm + Effective image 0.12 (−0.07, 0.31) 0.20 (−0.01, 0.41)
Theme x Image
 Flavors + Effective image −0.04 (−0.26, 0.18) 0.05 (−0.19, 0.29)
 Social + Effective image −0.03 (−0.37, 0.18) 0.02 (−0.22, 0.26)
Content x Theme x Image
 Harm + Flavors + Effective image −0.02 (−0.32, 0.28) −0.23 (−0.57, 0.10)
 Harm + Social + Effective image −0.10 (−0.37, 0.18) −0.20 (−0.50, 0.10)
Constant 3.31 (3.15, 3.46) 3.04 (2.87, 3.21) 3.18 (3.06, 3.29) 3.19 (3.07, 3.32)

Bold text indicates 95% confidence intervals that do not overlap the null.

a

n = 59 respondents participated in both Phase 1 and Phase 2