Midcareer Investigator Award in Patient-Oriented Research for Dr. Scott Sherman

描述(申请人提供)：在美国和世界大部分地区，烟草使用是主要的可预防的死亡原因。在过去的50年里，公共卫生努力大大降低了吸烟率，导致发病率和死亡率显著下降。然而，还需要在烟草控制方面做出进一步的努力，以帮助防止美国每年约43万与烟草有关的死亡。这项K24职业中期奖将使我能够提高我为初级教师提供的指导的数量和质量。我的这个奖项的研究重点将是从行为经济学的角度理解水烟的使用。这门学科致力于重新整合心理学和经济学领域，以更好地理解人类行为，最近它被应用于帮助理解香烟的使用。对于这个K24奖项，我会增加我在行为经济学方面的知识，并使用这个框架来评估水烟的使用。我对K24课程的目标是：职业目标1。指导更多以病人为导向的物质使用障碍研究的初级教员，主要集中在烟草控制职业目标2。评估我的指导质量并制定改进计划。职业目标3.提高我在替代烟草产品的行为、经济和政策方面的专业知识，主要专注于水烟(水烟)的使用。我提议进行三项连续的小型研究，这将有助于增加我在水烟使用行为经济学方面的专业知识，并提供更多数据与学员分享，这两项研究都将有助于我指导初级教职员工。我的具体研究目的：研究目标1。了解水烟烟斗吸烟的商业和财务方面，以及了解水烟吧老板的知识、态度和信念。研究目的2.了解水烟吸烟者的知识、态度、信念和经济偏好。研究目的3.建立水烟使用戒烟干预成本效益的初步模型，以及不同金融监管方法对水烟使用的影响。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Tobacco use is the leading preventable cause of death in the United States and throughout much of the world. Public health efforts over the last 50 years have dramatically decreased the prevalence of smoking, leading to a marked decrease in morbidity and mortality. Further efforts in tobacco control are needed though to help prevent the approximately 430,000 annual tobacco-related deaths in the US. This K24 midcareer award will allow me to improve the quantity and quality of mentoring I provide to junior faculty. My research focus for this award will be on understanding waterpipe tobacco use from a behavioral economics perspective. This discipline is an effort to reunite the fields of psychology and economics to better understand human behavior, and it has recently been applied to helping understand cigarette use. For this K24 award, I would increase my knowledge in behavioral economics and use this framework to evaluate waterpipe tobacco use. My goals for this K24 are: Career goal 1. To mentor additional junior faculty in patient-oriented research on substance use disorders, primarily focused on tobacco control Career goal 2. To evaluate the quality of my mentoring and develop a plan for improvement. Career goal 3. To increase my expertise at the behavioral, economic and policy aspects of alternate tobacco products, primarily focusing on water pipe (hookah) tobacco use. I am proposing three sequential small studies that will help increase my expertise in the behavioral economic aspects of waterpipe tobacco use and provide additional data to share with trainees, both of which will help me in mentoring junior faculty. My specific research aims: Research Aim 1. To understand the business and financial aspects of waterpipe tobacco smoking, as well as to understand the knowledge, attitudes and beliefs of hookah bar owners. Research Aim 2. To understand the knowledge, attitudes and beliefs and financial preferences of waterpipe tobacco users. Research Aim 3. To develop preliminary models of the cost-effectiveness of a cessation intervention for waterpipe tobacco use and of the effect of different financial regulatory approaches to waterpipe tobacco use.