Developing a Culturally Relevant Model of Smoking Cessation among Latinos

在拉丁美洲人中制定与文化相关的戒烟模式

• 批准号: 8707220
• 负责人: Yessenia Castro
• 金额: $ 13.99万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2011
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2011-09-01 至 2016-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/8707220
• 关键词: Acculturation; Addictive Behavior; Address; Adult; Affect; Affective; Area; Award; Cancer Center; Cereals; Chronic Disease; Clinical Practice Guideline; Cognitive; Communities; Complex; Data; Data Analyses; Dependence; Development; Discrimination; Doctor of Medicine; Doctor of Philosophy; Educational workshop; Environment; Ethnic Origin; Exhibits; Faculty; Foundations; Funding; Gender; General Population; Goals; Grant; Health; Health behavior; Individual; Intervention; Knowledge; Latino; Learning; Link; Longitudinal Studies; Mainstreaming; Manuscripts; Mental Health; Mentored Research Scientist Development Award; Mentors; Mentorship; Methods; Minority; Modeling; Motivation; National Cancer Institute; Pathway interactions; Population; Postdoctoral Fellow; Process; Public Health; Publications; Questionnaires; Race; Reading; Relative (related person); Reporting; Research; Research Personnel; Resources; Risk Behaviors; Sampling; Science; Scientist; Smoke; Smoker; Smoking; Smoking Cessation Intervention; Social support; Societies; Socioeconomic Status; Statistical Methods; Statistical Models; Stress; Stressful Event; Surgeon; Techniques; Time; Tobacco; Tobacco Dependence; Tobacco Use Cessation; Tobacco use; Training; Underserved Population; United States; Universities; University of Texas M D Anderson Cancer Center; Work; Writing; addiction; cancer prevention; cancer risk; career; clinical practice; experience; health disparity; high risk; improved; knowledge base; member; physical conditioning; programs; psychosocial; skills; smoking cessation; smoking prevalence; social; socioeconomics; stressor; success; theories

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Yessenia Castro, Ph.D., is a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Health Disparities Research at the University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center (MDACC). She is seeking five years of funding through the National Cancer Institute's Mentored Research Scientist Development Award to Promote Diversity (K01). Dr. Castro conducts research examining social, interpersonal, intrapersonal, and cultural determinants of smoking cessation in minority and underserved populations under the mentorship of Dr. David Wetter. MDACC provides an unusually rich training environment that includes an extraordinary number of workshops, seminars, and courses; outstanding opportunities for developing skills in grant writing, publication, and project management; and superb resources for assisting young investigators. Dr. Castro's long term career goals are to serve as an independent, research-oriented faculty member in a university environment, and to develop a program of research focused on understanding culturally relevant influences of cancer risk behaviors, with a particular focus on smoking among Latinos. Such a program could improve smoking cessation interventions tailored for or targeted at Latinos, and ultimately aid in eliminating health disparities among this population. In the current proposal, Dr. Castro delineates four short term goals to be achieved throughout the award period that are intended to serve as the foundation for an independent research career. These are: 1) accumulate a strong knowledge base in the social, cognitive, and affective mechanisms and processes involved in tobacco dependence and cessation among underserved adult populations; 2)extend her current knowledge of research on gender and race/ethnicity into the area of cancer prevention; particularly, smoking cessation among Latinos; 3) gain knowledge and experience in culturally competent community level research from a public health perspective, and; 4) learn the appropriate statistical methods and modeling techniques for evaluating complex longitudinal data. These goals will be achieved through a combination of: 1) rigorous formal coursework and directed readings; 2) numerous professional development experiences; 3) numerous project implementation, data analysis, and manuscript writing/publication experiences, and; 4) intensive mentoring by a team of highly successful scientists with diverse expertise, such that each mentor can provide invaluable guidance in achieving a specific short term goal, but most can advise about more than one goal. The proposed research plan seeks to address the paucity of existing research addressing the mechanisms underlying smoking cessation among Latinos. Research in addictions and health behavior has identified a number of individual-level factors that are key determinants of smoking cessation including social/environmental, inter-/intrapersonal, and cognitive/affective factors. Emerging research suggests that many of the known determinants of smoking cessation may be of equal importance to minority smokers, but more research is needed in this area, as noted by several prominent publications including the Surgeon General's Report and the Treating Tobacco Use and Dependence Clinical Practice Guideline. Further, with the exception of data addressing the influence of acculturation on smoking prevalence, almost nothing is known about the effect of acculturation and other culturally relevant variables (e.g., acculturative stress, perceived discrimination) on the process of smoking cessation. Thus, the proposed project will utilize data from three longitudinal studies of Latino smokers to examine the impact of culturally relevant factors on mechanisms of smoking cessation. The ultimate goal of this project is to develop and evaluate a comprehensive conceptual model linking cultural factors to mechanisms of smoking cessation that is informed by previous work addressing the impact of culture on mental and physical health, socioeconomic status influences on health, and theories of addictive behaviors. Additionally, the project will evaluate specific, fine-grained hypotheses using data collected with state-of-the-science ecological momentary assessment techniques.

简介（由申请人提供）：Yessenia Castro博士是德克萨斯大学安德森癌症中心（MDACC）健康差异研究部门的博士后。她正在通过国家癌症研究所的指导研究科学家发展奖（K01）寻求五年的资助，以促进多样性。在David Wetter博士的指导下，Castro博士对少数民族和服务不足人群中戒烟的社会、人际、个人和文化决定因素进行了研究。MDACC提供了异常丰富的培训环境，包括数量惊人的讲习班、研讨会和课程；培养基金写作、出版和项目管理技能的绝佳机会；以及协助年轻调查员的绝佳资源。