Developing Measures of Little Cigar Use for Young Adults

描述(申请人提供)：虽然成年人的香烟消费量最近有所下降，但小雪茄的消费量却有所增加。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人同龄人更频繁地使用小雪茄。这令人担忧；小雪茄比香烟含有更高水平的致癌物质。需要循证干预，以防止使用小雪茄，并降低这些群体中的癌症风险。在制定干预措施之前，应制定使用小雪茄的措施和心理社会决定因素。这项拟议的研究旨在开发和试点在不同种族/民族的年轻人中使用小雪茄及其心理社会决定因素的测试措施。

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.