Developing Measures of Little Cigar Use for Young Adults

描述（由申请人提供）：虽然成年人的卷烟消费量最近有所下降，但小雪茄的消费量却有所增加。有证据表明，生活在低收入社区的18-25岁的少数族裔年轻人比他们的白人同龄人更经常使用小雪茄。这很麻烦；小雪茄的致癌物质含量比香烟高。需要循证干预措施来防止这些群体使用小雪茄并降低癌症风险。在制定干预措施之前，应制定小雪茄使用措施和心理社会决定因素。拟议的研究旨在制定和试点测试措施的小雪茄使用及其社会心理决定因素的种族/民族多样化的年轻人。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): While cigarette consumption among adults has recently declined, Little Cigar consumption has increased. Evidence suggests that minority young adults, ages 18-25, living in low-income communities use Little Cigars more often than their white peers. This is troubling; Little Cigars have higher levels of cancer-causing substances than cigarettes. Evidence-based interventions are needed to prevent Little Cigar use and reduce cancer risk among these groups. Before interventions are developed measures of Little Cigar use and psychosocial determinants should be developed. The proposed research aims to develop and pilot test measures of Little Cigar use and its psychosocial determinants among racially/ethnically-diverse young adults. PUBLIC HEALTH RELEVANCE: Impact Statement This proposed study will address a gap in tobacco control knowledge by developing measures for an emerging tobacco product, Little Cigars. These measures will allow us to quantify Little Cigar usage and more importantly measure the beliefs and social and cultural experiences of racial/ethnically diverse young adult smokers, who are not typically targeted in tobacco-related measurement development studies. Thus, the proposed study impacts cancer prevention research by developing measures to estimate Little Cigar use and its determinants among racially/ethnically diverse young adults, and will lead to additional studies that will identify characteristics of Little Cigar young adult smokers who need cessation interventions. Pilot data generated from this study will assist the PI in developing additional studies that will use these measures to track usage, test hypotheses about the determinants of Little Cigar use, and use behavioral change theoretical frameworks to intervene on modifiable factors that may influence Little Cigar use among racially/ethnically diverse young adults.