Co-Designing AI-Generated Vaping Awareness Materials With Adolescents and Young Adults: A Qualitative Study.

Introduction: Developing mass meda campaigns to address rising youth vaping rates in Australia is timely and resource-intensive. Generative AI offers scalable content production, but little is known about youth perceptions of AI-generated multimedia materials or how their feedback can inform co-design processes.

Methods: We conducted a two-phase qualitative study in Queensland, Australia.

Generative Artificial Intelligence With Youth Codesign to Create Vaping Awareness Advertisements.

Importance: Traditional approaches to developing youth vaping awareness campaigns are time-consuming and can create critical delays in public health response. Although generative artificial intelligence (AI) offers promising capabilities for health communication, research has been limited to text-only messages.

Objective: To evaluate (1) the perceived message effectiveness (PME) of AI-generated, youth-codesigned vaping awareness social media advertisements (ads) compared with existing ads from official health agencies and (2) how different source labeling is associated with PME.

The relationship between cannabis and nicotine use: A systematic review and meta-analysis.

Background And Aims: Cannabis and nicotine (tobacco or e-cigarettes) use commonly co-occurs and understanding their relationship can help to inform public health strategies to prevent their harms. We conducted a systematic review and meta-analysis to estimate the association of cannabis use given prior nicotine use and vice versa.

Methods: PubMed, Embase, PsycINFO, Google Scholar and a hand-search were conducted in 2023 for longitudinal studies of the general population with no restrictions in settings (locations).

Alcohol use and alcohol use disorders in sub-Saharan Africa: A systematic review and meta-analysis.

Background And Aims: Population-level alcohol use data are available from high-income countries, but limited research has been conducted in sub-Saharan Africa. This systematic review and meta-analysis aimed to summarize population-level alcohol use in sub-Saharan Africa.

Method: Databases searched included PubMed, EMBASE, PsycINFO and AJOL, without language restrictions.

Treatment-seeking behavior and barriers to mental health service utilization for depressive symptoms and hazardous drinking: The role of religious and traditional healers in mental healthcare of Northwest Ethiopia.

Understanding mental healthcare seeking and associated factors is essential for planning mental health services. This study aimed to assess treatment seeking and barriers to care for depressive symptoms and hazardous drinking in a community sample of Northwest Ethiopia. A cross-sectional study was conducted to screen 1,728 participants for depressive symptoms ( = 414) and hazardous drinking ( = 155).

Participation in Australian drug treatment programs for individuals engaging in high-risk substance use: Data from a nationally representative sample.

Introduction: Substance use, including drugs, alcohol and smoking have a significant health, social and economic impact. We aim to assess the rate and factors associated with treatment access among individuals with high-risk substance use.

Method: This study is a cross-sectional analysis of the 2019 Australian National Drug Strategy Household Survey (N = 22,015).

Meal frequency and dietary diversity feeding practices among children 6-23 months of age in Wolaita Sodo town, Southern Ethiopia.

Background: Child feeding practices are multidimensional, and they change rapidly within short age intervals. Suboptimal complementary feeding practices contribute to a rapid increase in the prevalence of undernutrition in children in the age of 6-23 months. Information on child feeding practices among urban resident is limited in Ethiopia.