Next September, the Spanish Society of Epidemiology will hold its 43rd Annual Meeting in Las Palmas. The Health Behavior Studies Unit of the National Center for Epidemiology (Carlos III Health Institute) has organized a thematic panel on “Behavioral Studies for Better Health,” where we hope to present our paper entitled “E-cigarette Use and Smoking Cessation Among the General Population in Spain: A Behavioral Science Perspective.”

The abstract we have submitted shows the results of a cross-sectional observational study based on microdata from current smokers (4,178 daily and 460 occasional smokers) and former smokers (5,379) interviewed as part of the European Health Survey in Spain (EES-2020). The association between smoking cessation (currently smoking vs. having quit smoking) and e-cigarette use, social support (poor, moderate, or strong on the Oslo scale), age, and occupational social class was assessed using bivariate (comparison of proportions) and multivariate (binary logistic regression) analyses for women and men separately.

This study is part of one of the components of the project Behavior Design and Public Health: Explaining Unassisted Smoking Cessation, which I am currently working on.

We have begun recruiting participants for the qualitative substudy of the project “Behaviour Design and Public Health: Explaining Unassisted Smoking Cessation.” If you have quit smoking, or know someone who has quit smoking in the last two years, you can help us.

We have posted announcements on social media (LinkedIn, X, Bluesky) and in e-newsletters asking for your participation in our study. To help us, simply access  THIS LINK to answer a few screening questions and, if possible, provide us with an address so we can schedule a brief online interview of less than 30 minutes.

During this year, I have been participating alongside a group of researchers from Greece to apply for funding under the ERASMUS+ program for a research project on the use of AI in speech therapy interventions with children. My role has involved searching for schools in Spain that are interested in collaborating on the project. Currently, we are waiting for the funding decision. If the program is accepted, I will be part of it

I will be presenting a póster from the systematic review on Theory of Mind development in the online Ag Bell International Symposium.

Dates: 25-26 June