A Multi-State Asian-Language Quitline for Smokers

描述（由申请人提供）：本研究解决了社区预防服务指南建议的有效戒烟服务实施中的重大差距。《指南》建议将电话咨询或“戒烟热线”作为一项基于人口的关键烟草控制战略。目前，美国所有50个州都建立了戒烟热线。然而，只有一个戒烟热线提供亚洲语言的直接咨询。缺乏亚洲语言服务的理由包括缺乏针对这一人群的经过验证的协议，以及为多种亚洲语言的项目配备人员的实际困难。该项目将把经过实验验证的亚洲语言戒烟电话咨询协议转化为多州戒烟热线操作。加州、夏威夷和科罗拉多的州卫生部门将与开发和测试该协议的研究人员合作，创建一个实用的传播模型。该项目旨在表明，研究人员和决策者之间的合作将有助于将研究成果迅速转化为真实的世界公共卫生实践。该项目涉及传播和执行，有两个重叠的阶段。在第一阶段，研究人员将与三个准备采用亚洲退出线的州合作。他们将共同：（1）评估亚洲戒烟热线的多州模型的传播成功率，其中每个州单独推广戒烟热线，但集中运作提供咨询服务;（2）通过比较吸烟者对各州特定戒烟政策背景下广告信息的反应，检查推广策略实施的自然变化;（3）通过与加州最初的亚洲试验以及参与州的英语和西班牙语戒烟热线的数量和时间进行比较，测试实施忠诚度。在第二阶段，研究人员将与其他州的卫生部门合作，鼓励进一步传播。具体而言，它们将：（1）检查其他州卫生部门是否准备好采用多州亚洲戒烟线或启动自己的亚洲戒烟线，并评估其从第1年到第3年的准备变化;（2）与选定的州卫生部门、州戒烟热线运营商的代表进行深入访谈，和社区组织，以确定他们对采用亚洲语言退出线的障碍的看法;以及（3）启动一个进一步传播的进程，在项目的第三年之前至少再招募一个国家加入多国家亚洲退出线。拟议中的多州戒烟热线项目如果成功实施，可以作为其他州向亚裔吸烟者提供行为戒烟服务的典范，有助于减少这些人群获得有效治疗的差距。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This study addresses a significant gap in the implementation of effective tobacco cessation services as recommended by the Community Guide to Preventive Services. The Guide recommends telephone counseling, or "quitlines," as a key population-based tobacco control strategy. Currently, all 50 U.S. states have established quitlines. However, only one quitline offers direct counseling in Asian languages. Justifications for the absence of Asian-language services range from the lack of proven protocols for this population to the practical difficulty of staffing a program in multiple Asian languages. The project will translate an experimentally validated, Asian-language, smoking cessation telephone counseling protocol into a multi-state quitline operation. State health departments in California, Hawaii and Colorado will work with the researchers who developed and tested the protocol to create a practical dissemination model. The project aims to demonstrate that collaboration between researchers and policy makers will help to translate research results quickly into real world public health practice. The project involves both dissemination and implementation and has two overlapping phases. In the first phase, researchers will work with three states that are ready to adopt an Asian quitline. Together they will: (1) evaluate the dissemination success of a multi-state model for an Asian quitline in which each state promotes the quitline individually, but a centralized operation provides the counseling service; (2) examine the natural variation in implementation of promotional strategies by comparing smokers' responses to advertising messages in the context of state-specific cessation policies; and (3) test implementation fidelity by comparing the number and length of counseling sessions with those in California's original Asian trial, and with those of participating states' English and Spanish quitlines. In the second phase, researchers will work with the health departments in other states to encourage further dissemination. Specifically, they will: (1) examine the organizational readiness of other state health departments to adopt either the multi-state Asian quitline or to start their own Asian quitlines, and to assess their change in readiness from year 1 to year 3; (2) conduct in-depth interviews with representatives from selected state health departments, state quitline operators, and community organizations to determine their perceptions of barriers to adoption of Asian-language quitlines; and (3) set in motion a process for further dissemination by recruiting at least one additional state to join the multi-state Asian quitline by year 3 of the project. The proposed multi-state quitline project, if implemented successfully, can serve as a model for other states in providing behavioral cessation services to Asian-language smokers, helping to reduce disparities in access to effective treatment for these populations.