Understanding the mechanisms of change in social norms around tobacco use: A systematic review and meta‐analysis of interventions

作者：Shaon Lahiri, Jeffrey B. Bingenheimer, W. Douglas Evans, Yan Wang, Beniamino Cislaghi, Priyanka Dubey, Bobbi Snowden · 发表于：Addiction · 年份：2024 · DOI：10.1111/add.16685 · 被引用次数：15 · 研究领域：Smoking Behavior and Cessation、Global Public Health Policies and Epidemiology、Substance Abuse Treatment and Outcomes

BACKGROUND AND AIMS: Tobacco use spreads through social networks influencing social norms around tobacco use. However, the social norms scholarship is extremely diverse and occasionally conflicting, complicating efforts to understand how best to leverage social norms to reduce tobacco use. This study systematically reviewed and meta-analyzed this vast terrain by focusing on social norms measurement and mechanism, and intervention effectiveness and modality aimed at changing social norms around tobacco use and actual tobacco use. METHODS: We searched Scopus, PubMed, PsycInfo, Clinicaltrials.gov, ProQuest Dissertations, the Cochrane Trial Registry, as well as the websites of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco, the Open Science Framework, medrXiv and the Truth Initiative for experimental and quasi-experimental evaluation studies of interventions designed to shift tobacco use. We included studies written in English from inception to 30 May 2024. We only included studies which noted social norms or social influence as part of the intervention design or set of measured variables. We excluded studies with only one time point, without an intervention being evaluated and those not published in English. Study screening followed the PRISMA 2020 guidelines, and was conducted by at least two independent reviewers who resolved discrepancies through discussion and consensus. All included studies were analyzed in a narrative synthesis, and those providing sufficient statistics ...