Assessing Risk Perceptions of Flavored Small Cigars/Cigarillos Among Young Adults

评估年轻人对调味小雪茄/小雪茄的风险认知

• 批准号: 8606062
• 负责人: Kymberle L Sterling
• 金额: $ 20.58万
• 依托单位: GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2013
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2013-09-19 至 2015-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/8606062
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DESCRIPTION: The tobacco control community knows very little about how young adult cigarette smokers form risk perceptions of flavored little cigars and cigarillos (LCC), which researchers believe are key to understanding how to inform regulatory policy as well as prevention methods. In order to accurately determine risk perceptions, sensitive and reliable measures are urgently needed. The long-term goal is to develop health communication interventions that seek to modify risk perceptions of LCC smoking to prevent its initiation among ethnically diverse young adults. The proposed research seeks to fill a knowledge gap by developing a prognostic tool that identifies LCC risk perceptions and predicts LCC initiation behaviors (i.e. susceptibility/intention to smoke) among young adult cigarette smokers. Our preliminary data show that young adult smokers endorse positive attitudes, normative beliefs and self-efficacy toward LCC smoking. We have early indicators that suggest these smokers endorse low perceived risks (i.e., LCC are less harmful than cigarettes) of LCC smoking. Our central hypothesis is that LCC risk perceptions mediate the relationship between attitudes/norms/self-efficacy and susceptibility/intention. We propose 3 specific aims to test our hypothesis: (1) Use qualitative methods to elicit young adult cigarette smokers' beliefs, feelings, and knowledge about flavored LCCs and their risks; (2) To develop a new LCC risk perception scale; and (3) To determine what factors predict LCC susceptibility /intention to smoke. Under the first aim, we will conduct 12 focus groups (n= 8-10/group) to elicit these beliefs, which will inform the scale construction described in Aim 2. Under Aim 2, we will modify an extant tobacco risk perception scale with qualitative findings from Aim 1 and conduct cognitive testing on the scale among a sample of young adult cigarette smokers. Under 3, we will conduct an online survey among a national probability sample of 18-34 year old cigarette smokers (N=900) and use exploratory structural equation modeling (ESEM) to test our hypotheses. The proposed project will be significant because it is expected to help tobacco control regulatory scientists an policy makers understand the ways in which young adult cigarette smokers think about and respond to risks about flavored LCCs.

描述：烟草控制界对年轻成年吸烟者如何形成调味小雪茄和小雪茄 (LCC) 的风险认知知之甚少，研究人员认为，这是了解如何为监管政策和预防方法提供信息的关键。为了准确确定风险认知，迫切需要采取灵敏可靠的措施。长期目标是制定健康沟通干预措施，旨在改变对低成本吸烟的风险认知，以防止不同种族的年轻人开始吸烟。拟议的研究旨在通过开发一种预后工具来填补知识空白，该工具可识别年轻吸烟者的 LCC 风险认知并预测 LCC 起始行为（即吸烟的易感性/意愿）。我们的初步数据显示，年轻的成年吸烟者对低成本吸烟持积极的态度、规范的信念和自我效能。我们的早期指标表明，这些吸烟者认可低吸烟率吸烟的感知风险较低（即低吸烟率比卷烟危害更小）。我们的中心假设是，LCC 风险认知调节态度/规范/自我效能和敏感性/意图之间的关系。我们提出 3 个具体目标来检验我们的假设：(1) 使用定性方法来引发年轻成年吸烟者的信念、感受、 关于风味低成本航企及其风险的知识； (2) 制定新的LCC风险认知量表； (3) 确定哪些因素可以预测 LCC 的易感性/吸烟意愿。在第一个目标下，我们将开展 12 个焦点小组（n= 8-10/组）来引发这些信念，这将为目标 2 中描述的量表构建提供信息。在目标 2 下，我们将修改现有的烟草风险感知量表：目标 1 的定性研究结果，并对年轻成年吸烟者样本进行认知测试。在3下，我们将对18-34岁吸烟者的全国概率样本（N=900）进行在线调查，并使用探索性结构方程模型（ESEM）来检验我们的假设。拟议的项目意义重大，因为它预计将帮助烟草控制监管科学家和政策制定者了解年轻成年卷烟吸烟者思考和应对调味低成本烟草风险的方式。