Cultural Adaptation and Evaluation of Health Interventions for Smoking Cessation in China and Vietnam

项目总结/摘要 虽然中国和越南都批准了FCTC，但都没有为吸烟者提供全面的 成本覆盖的戒烟服务。目前吸烟者的戒烟被许多人认为是唯一的 在2050年之前避免全世界烟草死亡人数的很大一部分的实际方法。确定如何 为中国和越南的吸烟者提供有效的戒烟服务， 当今全球烟草控制工作面临的挑战。移动的医疗技术（mHealth）具有特别的前景 对于中国和越南这两个移动的电话使用量迅速增长的国家来说。然而， 需要对现有的mHealth戒烟干预措施进行调整，以解决 中国和越南吸烟者戒烟的社会文化障碍。长期目标是 项目的目的是建立和加强能力，以发展和传播基于证据的文化 在中国和越南使用移动健康方法进行适当的戒烟干预。具体 该项目的目标是：1）开发和检查文化增强的移动健康干预的有效性， 促进中国和越南成年男性吸烟者戒烟; 2）建立和加强 使用可扩展的mHealth对戒烟干预研究进行严格研究的可持续能力 中国和越南的方法。这一项目不仅将提供及时和急需的研究证据 中国和越南文化适应的mHealth方法的有效性，但也将建立一个 当地研究人员的骨干，他们将能够进行独立的mHealth戒烟干预。 如果按人口水平衡量，这些干预措施有可能帮助数百万吸烟者戒烟 在中国和越南。

Project Summary/Abstract Although China and Vietnam have both ratified the FCTC, neither provides its smokers with comprehensive cost-covered smoking cessation services. Cessation by current smokers is considered by many to be the only practical way to avoid a substantial proportion of tobacco deaths worldwide before 2050. Determining how to provide effective smoking cessation services to smokers in China and Vietnam represents one of the biggest challenges in global tobacco control efforts today. Mobile health technology (mHealth) holds particular promise for China and Vietnam, two countries with rapidly increasing mobile phone usage. However, substantial adaptations of existing mHealth smoking cessation interventions are needed to address the unique sociocultural barriers to quitting smoking for Chinese and Vietnamese smokers. The long-term goals of this project are to build and strengthen the capacity to develop and disseminate evidence-based, culturally appropriate interventions for smoking cessation using mHealth approaches in China and Vietnam. The specific aims of this project are 1) to develop and examine the efficacy of a culturally-enhanced mHealth intervention to promote smoking cessation among adult male smokers in China and Vietnam; and 2) to build and strengthen sustainable capacity for rigorous research on smoking cessation intervention studies using scalable mHealth methods in China and Vietnam. This project will not only provide timely and much-needed research evidence on the effectiveness of culturally-adapted mHealth approaches in China and Vietnam, but will also build a cadre of local researchers who will be able to carry out independent mHealth smoking cessation interventions. If scaled to population level, these interventions have the potential to help millions of smokers to quit smoking in China and Vietnam.