Identifying pragmatic solutions to reduce cigarette smoking prevalence in Indigenous North Americans: A sequential exploratory mixed-methods study protocol.

ABSTRACT:

Background

American Indians and Alaska Natives (AI/AN) have the highest prevalence of cigarette smoking of any race or ethnicity in the United States. Efforts to address smoking prevalence in this population have not historically targeted maintenance of smoking cessation, or behaviors associated with pregnancy. Recent longitudinal cohort studies have identified maintenance of cessation and pregnancy as potential opportunities to address smoking in AI/AN people.

Methods

To promote success in achieving sustained smoking cessation in AI/AN people, we propose a community engaged sequential exploratory mixed-methods study focused on identifying pragmatic elements of cessation interventions. A discovery sample of 45 AI/AN people will be included in the qualitative study in one of

SUBMITTER: Rusk AM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11554222 | biostudies-literature | 2024

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature