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）：虽然成年人的卷烟消费量最近有所下降，但小雪茄的消费量却有所增加。有证据表明，生活在低收入社区的 18 至 25 岁的少数族裔年轻人比白人同龄人更频繁地使用 Little Cigars。这令人不安；小雪茄比香烟含有更高含量的致癌物质。需要采取循证干预措施来防止这些群体使用 Little Cigar 并降低癌症风险。在制定干预措施之前，应制定小雪茄使用和心理社会决定因素的措施。拟议的研究旨在制定和试点测试不同种族/民族的年轻人使用小雪茄及其心理社会决定因素的措施。 公共卫生相关性：影响陈述 这项拟议研究将通过为新兴烟草产品“小雪茄”制定措施来解决烟草控制知识方面的差距。这些措施将使我们能够量化小雪茄的使用情况，更重要的是衡量不同种族/民族的年轻成年吸烟者的信仰、社会和文化经历，这些人通常不是烟草相关测量发展研究的目标。因此，拟议的研究通过制定措施来估计小雪茄的使用情况及其在不同种族/民族的年轻人中的决定因素，从而影响癌症预防研究，并将引发更多研究，以确定需要戒烟干预的小雪茄年轻吸烟者的特征。本研究生成的试点数据将帮助 PI 开展其他研究，利用这些措施来跟踪使用情况、测试有关 Little Cigar 使用决定因素的假设，并使用行为改变理论框架来干预可能影响 Little Cigar 使用的可修改因素在种族/民族多样化的年轻人中。