Developing Measures of Little Cigar Use for Young Adults

制定年轻人吸少量雪茄的措施

• 批准号: 8259665
• 负责人: Kymberle L Sterling
• 金额: $ 7.38万
• 依托单位: GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2012
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2012-09-01 至 2014-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/8259665
• 关键词: Address; Adult; African American; Age; Attitude; Behavior; Behavior Control; Behavioral; Belief; Cancer Etiology; Cessation of life; Characteristics; Cigar; Cigar Smoking; Cigarette; Cognitive; Communities; Consumption; Data; Development; Drug usage; Ensure; Ethnic group; Evidence based intervention; Family; Flavoring; Focus Groups; Foundations; Frequencies; Health; Hispanics; Income; Intention; Intervention; Knowledge; Lead; Life; Low income; Malignant Neoplasms; Measurement; Measures; Minority; Perception; Pilot Projects; Planning Theory; Prevention Research; Questionnaires; Recommendation; Research; Risk; Sampling; Smoke; Smoker; Smoking; Smoking Prevention; Surveys; Target Populations; Testing; Tobacco; Tobacco Industry; Tobacco use; United States; United States Food and Drug Administration; Vulnerable Populations; Weaning; Withholding Treatment; base; cancer prevention; cancer risk; effective intervention; evidence base; experience; peer; prevent; psychosocial; public policy on tobacco; racial and ethnic; smoking cessation; social; therapy design; tobacco control; young adult

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): While cigarette consumption among adults has recently declined, Little Cigar consumption has increased. Evidence suggests that minority young adults, ages 18-25, living in low-income communities use Little Cigars more often than their white peers. This is troubling; Little Cigars have higher levels of cancer-causing substances than cigarettes. Evidence-based interventions are needed to prevent Little Cigar use and reduce cancer risk among these groups. Before interventions are developed measures of Little Cigar use and psychosocial determinants should be developed. The proposed research aims to develop and pilot test measures of Little Cigar use and its psychosocial determinants among racially/ethnically-diverse young adults. PUBLIC HEALTH RELEVANCE: Impact Statement This proposed study will address a gap in tobacco control knowledge by developing measures for an emerging tobacco product, Little Cigars. These measures will allow us to quantify Little Cigar usage and more importantly measure the beliefs and social and cultural experiences of racial/ethnically diverse young adult smokers, who are not typically targeted in tobacco-related measurement development studies. Thus, the proposed study impacts cancer prevention research by developing measures to estimate Little Cigar use and its determinants among racially/ethnically diverse young adults, and will lead to additional studies that will identify characteristics of Little Cigar young adult smokers who need cessation interventions. Pilot data generated from this study will assist the PI in developing additional studies that will use these measures to track usage, test hypotheses about the determinants of Little Cigar use, and use behavioral change theoretical frameworks to intervene on modifiable factors that may influence Little Cigar use among racially/ethnically diverse young adults.

描述（由申请人提供）：虽然成年人的香烟消耗量最近下降了，但雪茄消费量的增加很少。有证据表明，居住在低收入社区的少数年轻人比白人同龄人更频繁地使用雪茄。这很麻烦；与香烟相比，很少有雪茄具有更高水平的引起癌症的物质。需要采取基于证据的干预措施来防止雪茄的使用很少并降低这些群体中的癌症风险。在制定了少量雪茄使用的措施之前，应开发出少量雪茄的方法。拟议的研究旨在制定和试生雪茄使用少量使用及其在种族/种族多样性年轻人中的社会心理决定因素的测试措施。 公共卫生相关性：影响声明，这项拟议的研究将通过制定新兴烟草产品Little Cigars的措施来解决烟草控制知识的差距。这些措施将使我们能够量化少量雪茄的用法，更重要的是衡量种族/种族多样的年轻吸烟者的信念，社会和文化经验，他们通常不是针对与烟草相关的测量开发研究。因此，拟议的研究通过制定措施来估计少量雪茄的使用及其在种族/种族多样的年轻人中的决定因素来影响癌症的研究，并将导致其他研究，这些研究将确定需要停止干预措施的小雪茄年轻人吸烟者的特征。这项研究产生的试验数据将有助于PI开发其他研究，这些研究将使用这些措施来跟踪使用情况，测试少量使用雪茄的决定因素，并使用行为改变理论框架来干预可能影响种族/种族多元化的年轻人中少量雪茄的可修改因素。