FRESH Delivers: An Innovative Approach to Reducing Tobacco Use Among Rural Black/African American Smokers

FRESH 提供：减少农村黑人/非裔美国吸烟者烟草使用的创新方法

• 批准号: 10494213
• 负责人: Pebbles Fagan
• 金额: $ 63.9万
• 依托单位: UNIV OF ARKANSAS FOR MED SCIS
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2021
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2021-09-24 至 2026-06-30
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10494213
• 关键词: African American; Black race; Health; Research; Rural; Smoker; Social Justice; innovation; reduce tobacco use

SUMMARY – PROJECT 2 Blacks/African Americans have the highest cigarette smoking-attributable cancer mortality rates in the United States. Cigarette smoking is nearly double the national average (23%-26%) in Arkansas rural counties where more than 48% of the population is Black/African American. Social structural stressors such as persistent poverty, low educational attainment, high rates of unemployment, the COVID-19 pandemic, poor transportation, poor access to health care, and historical oppression pose tremendous barriers to successful quitting. Quitting smoking can substantially reduce cancer morbidity and mortality among African Americans, but successful quitting as well as the reach of evidence-based interventions to rural African Americans is alarmingly low. Few studies have empirically tested the efficacy of social structural interventions (home-based food delivery) that address the dynamic interplay of cancer risk behaviors, like smoking, and social factors that perpetuate disparities like food insecurity. The long-term goal of this study is to fill a critical gap in knowledge on the role of social structural interventions in the elimination of cancer health disparities in low resource rural Arkansas counties with high proportions of Blacks/African Americans and high smoking prevalence. Our aims are to 1) test the efficacy of a social change intervention (home-based food delivery) on smoking abstinence using a 3-armed randomized controlled design, 2) examine changes in measures of cigarette abuse liability, and 3) examine the extent to which home-based food delivery improves recruitment and retention of Black/African American smokers in the treatment conditions. Our academic-community partnership – the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Coalition for a Tobacco Free Arkansas, and the Arkansas Foodbank – has a strong collaborative foundation and experience in working together to reduce tobacco use in rural Arkansas Delta counties with high proportions of Blacks/African Americans. Multilevel interventions are needed to address persistent social conditions that potentially increase the abuse liability of smoking and impede successful quitting. Smokers who are more food insecure are less likely to quit smoking. Our multidisciplinary team will use the Socioecological Model to test our central hypothesis: smokers who receive evidence-based real-time video-based motivational counseling and a social change intervention (home-based food delivery) will have greater cotinine-verified 7-day point prevalence abstinence than those who receive motivational counseling alone or social change alone. Social structural interventions that meet the immediate social needs of Black/African American smokers hold tremendous promise for improving Black/African American recruitment and retention into helpful cancer prevention community trials, increasing successful quitting, and reducing social disparities that perpetuate tobacco-caused cancer disparities.

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