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Factors Contributing to Adolescents’ and Young Adults’ Participation in Web-Based Challenges: Survey Study

BACKGROUND: Web-based challenges, phenomena that are familiar to adolescents and young adults who spend large amounts of time on social media, range from minimally harmful behaviors intended to support philanthropic endeavors to significantly harmful behaviors that may culminate in injury or death....

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Autores principales: Khasawneh, Amro, Chalil Madathil, Kapil, Zinzow, Heidi, Rosopa, Patrick, Natarajan, Gitanjali, Achuthan, Krishnashree, Narasimhan, Meera
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Publicado: JMIR Publications 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8078707/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33595450
http://dx.doi.org/10.2196/24988
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author Khasawneh, Amro
Chalil Madathil, Kapil
Zinzow, Heidi
Rosopa, Patrick
Natarajan, Gitanjali
Achuthan, Krishnashree
Narasimhan, Meera
author_facet Khasawneh, Amro
Chalil Madathil, Kapil
Zinzow, Heidi
Rosopa, Patrick
Natarajan, Gitanjali
Achuthan, Krishnashree
Narasimhan, Meera
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description BACKGROUND: Web-based challenges, phenomena that are familiar to adolescents and young adults who spend large amounts of time on social media, range from minimally harmful behaviors intended to support philanthropic endeavors to significantly harmful behaviors that may culminate in injury or death. OBJECTIVE: This study aims to investigate the beliefs that lead adolescents and young adults to participate in these activities by analyzing the amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) ice bucket challenge, representing nonharmful behaviors associated with web-based challenges, and the cinnamon challenge, representing web-based challenges that lead to harmful behaviors. METHODS: A retrospective quantitative study was conducted with a total of 471 participants aged between 13 and 35 years who either had participated in the ALS ice bucket challenge or the cinnamon challenge, or had never participated in any web-based challenge. Binomial logistic regression models were used to classify those who participated in the ALS ice bucket challenge or cinnamon challenge versus those who did not engage in either challenge using the integrated behavioral model’s beliefs as predictors. RESULTS: The findings showed that participants of both the cinnamon challenge and the ALS ice bucket challenge had significantly greater expectations from the public to participate in the challenge they completed in comparison with individuals who never participated in any challenge (P=.01 for the cinnamon challenge and P=.003 for the ALS ice bucket challenge). Cinnamon challenge participants had greater value for the outcomes of the challenge (P<.001) and perceived positive public opinion about the challenge (P<.001), in comparison with individuals who never participated in any challenge. In contrast, ALS ice bucket challenge participants had significantly greater positive emotional responses than individuals who never participated in any challenge (P<.001). CONCLUSIONS: The constructs that contribute to the spread of web-based challenges vary based on the level of self-harm involved in the challenge and its purpose. Intervention efforts could be tailored to address the beliefs associated with different types of web-based challenges.
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spelling pubmed-80787072021-05-06 Factors Contributing to Adolescents’ and Young Adults’ Participation in Web-Based Challenges: Survey Study Khasawneh, Amro Chalil Madathil, Kapil Zinzow, Heidi Rosopa, Patrick Natarajan, Gitanjali Achuthan, Krishnashree Narasimhan, Meera JMIR Pediatr Parent Original Paper BACKGROUND: Web-based challenges, phenomena that are familiar to adolescents and young adults who spend large amounts of time on social media, range from minimally harmful behaviors intended to support philanthropic endeavors to significantly harmful behaviors that may culminate in injury or death. OBJECTIVE: This study aims to investigate the beliefs that lead adolescents and young adults to participate in these activities by analyzing the amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) ice bucket challenge, representing nonharmful behaviors associated with web-based challenges, and the cinnamon challenge, representing web-based challenges that lead to harmful behaviors. METHODS: A retrospective quantitative study was conducted with a total of 471 participants aged between 13 and 35 years who either had participated in the ALS ice bucket challenge or the cinnamon challenge, or had never participated in any web-based challenge. Binomial logistic regression models were used to classify those who participated in the ALS ice bucket challenge or cinnamon challenge versus those who did not engage in either challenge using the integrated behavioral model’s beliefs as predictors. RESULTS: The findings showed that participants of both the cinnamon challenge and the ALS ice bucket challenge had significantly greater expectations from the public to participate in the challenge they completed in comparison with individuals who never participated in any challenge (P=.01 for the cinnamon challenge and P=.003 for the ALS ice bucket challenge). Cinnamon challenge participants had greater value for the outcomes of the challenge (P<.001) and perceived positive public opinion about the challenge (P<.001), in comparison with individuals who never participated in any challenge. In contrast, ALS ice bucket challenge participants had significantly greater positive emotional responses than individuals who never participated in any challenge (P<.001). CONCLUSIONS: The constructs that contribute to the spread of web-based challenges vary based on the level of self-harm involved in the challenge and its purpose. Intervention efforts could be tailored to address the beliefs associated with different types of web-based challenges. JMIR Publications 2021-02-17 /pmc/articles/PMC8078707/ /pubmed/33595450 http://dx.doi.org/10.2196/24988 Text en ©Amro Khasawneh, Kapil Chalil Madathil, Heidi Zinzow, Patrick Rosopa, Gitanjali Natarajan, Krishnashree Achuthan, Meera Narasimhan. Originally published in JMIR Pediatrics and Parenting (http://pediatrics.jmir.org), 17.02.2021. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work, first published in JMIR Pediatrics and Parenting, is properly cited. The complete bibliographic information, a link to the original publication on http://pediatrics.jmir.org, as well as this copyright and license information must be included.
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Khasawneh, Amro
Chalil Madathil, Kapil
Zinzow, Heidi
Rosopa, Patrick
Natarajan, Gitanjali
Achuthan, Krishnashree
Narasimhan, Meera
Factors Contributing to Adolescents’ and Young Adults’ Participation in Web-Based Challenges: Survey Study
title Factors Contributing to Adolescents’ and Young Adults’ Participation in Web-Based Challenges: Survey Study
title_full Factors Contributing to Adolescents’ and Young Adults’ Participation in Web-Based Challenges: Survey Study
title_fullStr Factors Contributing to Adolescents’ and Young Adults’ Participation in Web-Based Challenges: Survey Study
title_full_unstemmed Factors Contributing to Adolescents’ and Young Adults’ Participation in Web-Based Challenges: Survey Study
title_short Factors Contributing to Adolescents’ and Young Adults’ Participation in Web-Based Challenges: Survey Study
title_sort factors contributing to adolescents’ and young adults’ participation in web-based challenges: survey study
topic Original Paper
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8078707/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33595450
http://dx.doi.org/10.2196/24988
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