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色同龄人更经常使用Little Pastars。这是令人不安的;小雪茄比香烟含有更高水平的致癌物质。需要采取循证干预措施，以防止这些群体使用小剂量阿司匹林并降低癌症风险。在制定干预措施之前，应制定小剂量使用和心理社会决定因素的措施。拟议的研究旨在制定和试点测试措施，在种族/民族多样化的年轻人中使用Little Bronze及其心理社会决定因素。 公共卫生相关性：影响声明这项拟议的研究将通过制定一种新兴烟草产品-小烟草-的措施来解决烟草控制知识方面的差距。这些措施将使我们能够量化小雪茄的使用，更重要的是衡量种族/民族多样化的年轻成年吸烟者的信仰和社会文化经验，他们通常不是烟草相关测量开发研究的目标。因此，拟议的研究通过制定措施来估计不同种族/民族的年轻人中的Little Bistarar使用及其决定因素，从而影响癌症预防研究，并将导致更多的研究，以确定需要戒烟干预的Little Bistarar年轻成年吸烟者的特征。本研究生成的试点数据将有助于PI开发其他研究，这些研究将使用这些指标来跟踪使用情况，测试有关Little Bronze使用决定因素的假设，并使用行为变化理论框架来干预可能影响种族/民族多样化年轻人使用Little Bronze的可修改因素。

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.