Expanding a culturally relevant model of sexual minority tobacco use: the impact of identity

项目总结 这项提议的总体目标是提供培训、职业发展和指导，从而 Hinds博士将围绕性少数(SM)身份发展的研究机构与 在整个生命周期内使用烟草，扩展和改进与文化相关的概念模型， 解释SM烟草的使用。Hinds博士是史蒂夫大学博士后研究员兼兼职助理教授 德克萨斯大学奥斯汀分校希克斯社会工作学院。Hinds博士的研究组合专注于 描述和解释性少数群体和性别少数群体(SGM)年轻人的烟草使用差异。Dr。 Hinds的长期职业目标是成为一所顶级研究型大学的教员，拥有 旨在消除SGM烟草和物质使用的独立、社区参与的合作研究 差距。Hinds博士完成了由国家心脏基金会资助的为期两年的博士后研究奖学金， 肺和血液研究所(NHLBI)，专注于促进心血管疾病的健康公平 (T32HL140290)。Hinds博士完成了烟草监管科学的研究生培训，并获得了博士学位 健康行为与健康教育。在目前的五年计划中，海因兹博士概述了三个培训目标 这些对于扩大她作为一名专注于SM的烟草研究人员的技能至关重要，将通过 课程、研讨会、定向阅读和辅导会议：1)关于SM身份发展的内容培训 2)心理测量学和调查工具的方法论培训 发展，以及3)数据分析培训，以测试和完善SM烟草使用的综合模式 这包括SM身份的要素，从多个维度衡量。Hinds博士已经组装了一支强大的 由高度成功的多学科专家组成的指导团队，每个专家都可以就多个培训目标提供建议 和研究目标，其中Hinds博士将全面检查SM身份相关因素和 与增加和降低烟草使用风险和产生以下三个方面相关的维度 主要结果：目标1)关于认同感维度和里程碑之间关系的新发现 烟草使用，基于两项最突出的SM重点研究的混合方法二次数据分析 曾在美国进行过；AIM 2)一种评估SM身份现象的新调查工具 管理行为，以及目标3)更新和全面的SM烟草使用概念模型， 整合维度、里程碑和身份管理行为的身份元素作为解释性 机制，以及少数人的压力，解释了SM烟草使用的独特决定因素。最终， 这个项目的发现将提高我们对SM烟草使用差异的原因的理解，并提供信息 R01提案将确定旨在减少SM烟草使用的身份确认倡议的途径。

PROJECT SUMMARY The overall goal of this proposal is to provide the training, career development, and mentorship that will result in Dr. Hinds’ ability to integrate the bodies of research surrounding sexual minority (SM) identity development with tobacco use across the lifespan, expanding and improving upon culturally-relevant conceptual models that explain SM tobacco use. Dr. Hinds is a postdoctoral research fellow and Adjunct Assistant Professor at the Steve Hicks School of Social work at The University of Texas at Austin. Dr. Hinds’ research portfolio has focused on describing and explaining the tobacco use disparities of sexual and gender minority (SGM) young adults. Dr. Hinds’ long term career goal is to be a faculty member at a top-tier research university with a portfolio of independent, community-engaged collaborative research aimed at eliminating SGM tobacco and substance use disparities. Dr. Hinds completed a 2-year postdoctoral research fellowship funded through the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI), focused on promoting health equity in cardiovascular disease (T32HL140290). Dr. Hinds completed graduate training in Tobacco Regulatory Science and received her PhD in Health Behavior and Health Education. In the current five-year proposal, Dr. Hinds outlines three training goals that are critical to expanding her skill set as an SM-focused tobacco researcher, to be addressed through coursework, seminars, directed readings, and mentored meetings: 1) content training in SM identity development and tobacco use across the lifespan, 2) methodological training in psychometrics and survey instrument development, and 3) data analysis training in order to test and refine a comprehensive model of SM tobacco use that includes elements of SM identity, measured multidimensionally. Dr. Hinds has assembled a strong mentoring team of highly successful, multidisciplinary experts who can each advise on multiple training goals and research aims, where Dr. Hinds will comprehensively examine the SM identity-related factors and dimensions that are linked to both increased and decreased risk for tobacco use and yield the following three primary outcomes: Aim 1) novel findings into the association between identity dimensions and milestones with tobacco use, based on mixed method secondary data analysis of two of the most prominent SM-focused studies ever conducted in the U.S.; Aim 2) a novel survey instrument assessing the phenomenon of SM identity management behaviors, and Aim 3) an updated and comprehensive conceptual model of SM tobacco use, that integrates the identity elements of dimensions, milestones, and identity management behaviors as explanatory mechanisms, alongside minority stress, in explaining unique determinants of SM tobacco use. Ultimately, findings from this project will improve our understanding of the etiology of SM tobacco use disparities, and inform an R01 proposal that will identify avenues for identity-affirming initiatives designed to reduce SM tobacco use.