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: 8737823
• 负责人: Kymberle L Sterling
• 金额: $ 22.11万
• 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 2016-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/8737823
• 关键词: Acute; Affective; Area; Attention; Attitude; Behavior; Belief; Breathing; Cancer Control; Cigar; Cigarette; Cigarette Smoker; Cognitive; Communities; Complex; Comprehension; Consumption; Data; Development; Emotions; Equation; Facial Affective Scale; Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act; Feeling; Flavoring; Focus Groups; Goals; Grant; Happiness; Health; Health Communication; Individual; Intention; Intervention; Knowledge; Malignant Neoplasms; Marketing; Measures; Mediating; Menthol; Methods; Minority Groups; Mission; Modeling; Morbidity - disease rate; Nicotine Dependence; Perception; Planning Theory; Policies; Policy Maker; Population Study; Predisposition; Prevention; Probability Samples; Proxy; Public Health; Qualitative Methods; Regulation; Research; Research Personnel; Research Priority; Risk; Sampling; Scientist; Self Efficacy; Shapes; Smell Perception; Smoke; Smoker; Smoking; Smoking Behavior; Surveys; Taste Perception; Testing; Time; Tobacco; Toxin; United States; United States Food and Drug Administration; United States National Institutes of Health; Validation; Work; Youth; authority; base; cigarette smoking; comparative; ethnic minority population; hookah; mortality; peer; prevent; prognostic; public health relevance; risk perception; theories; tobacco control; tool; young adult

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：烟草控制社区对年轻的成年吸烟者如何形成对小雪茄和雪茄（LCC）的风险感知的了解，研究人员认为这是了解如何告知监管政策和预防方法的关键。为了准确确定风险感知，迫切需要采取敏感和可靠的措施。长期的目标是制定健康交流干预措施，试图改变对LCC吸烟的风险看法，以防止其在种族多样化的年轻人中的启动。拟议的研究旨在通过开发一种预后的工具来填补知识差距，该工具可以识别LCC风险感知并预测年轻成人吸烟者中LCC的起始行为（即对吸烟的易感性/意图）。我们的初步数据表明，年轻的成年吸烟者认可积极的态度，规范性的信念和对LCC吸烟的自我效能。我们有早期的指标表明，这些吸烟者认可LCC吸烟的低感知风险（即LCC的危害不如香烟）。我们的中心假设是LCC风险感知介导了态度/规范/自我效能和易感/意图之间的关系。我们提出了3个特定旨在检验我们的假设的特定旨在：（1）使用定性方法来引起年轻的成年吸烟者的信念，感觉， 以及有关调味LCC及其风险的知识； （2）开发新的LCC风险感知量表； （3）确定哪些因素可以预测LCC易感性 /吸烟的意图。在第一个目标下，我们将进行12个焦点小组（n = 8-10/组），以引起这些信念，这将为AIM 2中描述的量表结构提供信息。在AIM 2下，我们将通过AIM 1中的定性发现进行修改，并通过AIM 1的定性发现，并在年轻成年吸烟者样本中进行认知测试。低于3，我们将对18-34岁吸烟者（n = 900）的全国概率样本进行在线调查，并使用探索性结构方程建模（ESEM）来检验我们的假设。拟议的项目将是重要的，因为有望帮助烟草控制监管科学家一个决策者了解年轻成人吸烟者的思考和应对风险的LCC风险。