The impact of televised tobacco control advertising content on campaign recall: evidence from the International Tobacco Control (ITC) United Kingdom Survey

BACKGROUND: Although there is some evidence to support an association between exposure to televised tobacco control campaigns and recall among youth, little research has been conducted among adults. In addition, no previous work has directly compared the impact of different types of emotive campaign...

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Main Authors: Richardson, Sol, McNeill, Ann, Langley, Tessa, Sims, Michelle, Gilmore, Anna B., Szatkowski, Lisa, Heath, Robert, Fong, Geoffrey T., Lewis, Sarah
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author Richardson, Sol
McNeill, Ann
Langley, Tessa
Sims, Michelle
Gilmore, Anna B.
Szatkowski, Lisa
Heath, Robert
Fong, Geoffrey T.
Lewis, Sarah
author_facet Richardson, Sol
McNeill, Ann
Langley, Tessa
Sims, Michelle
Gilmore, Anna B.
Szatkowski, Lisa
Heath, Robert
Fong, Geoffrey T.
Lewis, Sarah
author_sort Richardson, Sol
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description BACKGROUND: Although there is some evidence to support an association between exposure to televised tobacco control campaigns and recall among youth, little research has been conducted among adults. In addition, no previous work has directly compared the impact of different types of emotive campaign content. The present study examined the impact of increased exposure to tobacco control advertising with different types of emotive content on rates and durations of self-reported recall. METHODS: Data on recall of televised campaigns from 1,968 adult smokers residing in England through four waves of the International Tobacco Control (ITC) United Kingdom Survey from 2005 to 2009 were merged with estimates of per capita exposure to government-run televised tobacco control advertising (measured in GRPs, or Gross Rating Points), which were categorised as either “positive” or “negative” according to their emotional content. RESULTS: Increased overall campaign exposure was found to significantly increase probability of recall. For every additional 1,000 GRPs of per capita exposure to negative emotive campaigns in the six months prior to survey, there was a 41% increase in likelihood of recall (OR = 1.41, 95% CI: 1.24–1.61), while positive campaigns had no significant effect. Increased exposure to negative campaigns in both the 1–3 months and 4–6 month periods before survey was positively associated with recall. CONCLUSIONS: Increased per capita exposure to negative emotive campaigns had a greater effect on campaign recall than positive campaigns, and was positively associated with increased recall even when the exposure had occurred more than three months previously.
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spelling nottingham-331542020-05-04T16:48:21Z https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/33154/ The impact of televised tobacco control advertising content on campaign recall: evidence from the International Tobacco Control (ITC) United Kingdom Survey Richardson, Sol McNeill, Ann Langley, Tessa Sims, Michelle Gilmore, Anna B. Szatkowski, Lisa Heath, Robert Fong, Geoffrey T. Lewis, Sarah BACKGROUND: Although there is some evidence to support an association between exposure to televised tobacco control campaigns and recall among youth, little research has been conducted among adults. In addition, no previous work has directly compared the impact of different types of emotive campaign content. The present study examined the impact of increased exposure to tobacco control advertising with different types of emotive content on rates and durations of self-reported recall. METHODS: Data on recall of televised campaigns from 1,968 adult smokers residing in England through four waves of the International Tobacco Control (ITC) United Kingdom Survey from 2005 to 2009 were merged with estimates of per capita exposure to government-run televised tobacco control advertising (measured in GRPs, or Gross Rating Points), which were categorised as either “positive” or “negative” according to their emotional content. RESULTS: Increased overall campaign exposure was found to significantly increase probability of recall. For every additional 1,000 GRPs of per capita exposure to negative emotive campaigns in the six months prior to survey, there was a 41% increase in likelihood of recall (OR = 1.41, 95% CI: 1.24–1.61), while positive campaigns had no significant effect. Increased exposure to negative campaigns in both the 1–3 months and 4–6 month periods before survey was positively associated with recall. CONCLUSIONS: Increased per capita exposure to negative emotive campaigns had a greater effect on campaign recall than positive campaigns, and was positively associated with increased recall even when the exposure had occurred more than three months previously. BioMed Central 2014-05-07 Article PeerReviewed Richardson, Sol, McNeill, Ann, Langley, Tessa, Sims, Michelle, Gilmore, Anna B., Szatkowski, Lisa, Heath, Robert, Fong, Geoffrey T. and Lewis, Sarah (2014) The impact of televised tobacco control advertising content on campaign recall: evidence from the International Tobacco Control (ITC) United Kingdom Survey. BMC Public Health, 14 . 432/1-432/7. ISSN 1471-2458 Tobacco control Mass media campaigns Recall Emotive content http://bmcpublichealth.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/1471-2458-14-432 doi:10.1186/1471-2458-14-432 doi:10.1186/1471-2458-14-432
spellingShingle Tobacco control
Mass media campaigns
Recall
Emotive content
Richardson, Sol
McNeill, Ann
Langley, Tessa
Sims, Michelle
Gilmore, Anna B.
Szatkowski, Lisa
Heath, Robert
Fong, Geoffrey T.
Lewis, Sarah
The impact of televised tobacco control advertising content on campaign recall: evidence from the International Tobacco Control (ITC) United Kingdom Survey
title The impact of televised tobacco control advertising content on campaign recall: evidence from the International Tobacco Control (ITC) United Kingdom Survey
title_full The impact of televised tobacco control advertising content on campaign recall: evidence from the International Tobacco Control (ITC) United Kingdom Survey
title_fullStr The impact of televised tobacco control advertising content on campaign recall: evidence from the International Tobacco Control (ITC) United Kingdom Survey
title_full_unstemmed The impact of televised tobacco control advertising content on campaign recall: evidence from the International Tobacco Control (ITC) United Kingdom Survey
title_short The impact of televised tobacco control advertising content on campaign recall: evidence from the International Tobacco Control (ITC) United Kingdom Survey
title_sort impact of televised tobacco control advertising content on campaign recall: evidence from the international tobacco control (itc) united kingdom survey
topic Tobacco control
Mass media campaigns
Recall
Emotive content
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