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Adaptation of a Smoking Cessation and Prevention Website for Urban American Indian/Alaska Native Youth

Adaptation of a Smoking Cessation and Prevention Website for Urban American Indian/Alaska Native... Tobacco use among American Indian youth is a disproportionately significant problem. We adapted and modified an existing web-based and youth-focused tobacco control program to make it appropriate for young urban American Indian/Alaska Natives (AI/ANs). The results of the focus group indicate that AI/AN youth were very receptive to the use of a web-based Zine-style intervention tool. They wanted the look and feel of the website to be more oriented toward their cultural images. Future research should examine if successful programs for reducing non-ceremonial tobacco use among urban AI/AN youth can keep young irregular smokers from becoming adult smokers. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Journal of Cancer Education Springer Journals

Adaptation of a Smoking Cessation and Prevention Website for Urban American Indian/Alaska Native Youth

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Publisher
Springer Journals
Copyright
Copyright © 2009 by The Author(s)
Subject
Biomedicine; Pharmacology/Toxicology ; Cancer Research
ISSN
0885-8195
eISSN
1543-0154
DOI
10.1007/s13187-009-0004-2
pmid
20082169
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Abstract

Tobacco use among American Indian youth is a disproportionately significant problem. We adapted and modified an existing web-based and youth-focused tobacco control program to make it appropriate for young urban American Indian/Alaska Natives (AI/ANs). The results of the focus group indicate that AI/AN youth were very receptive to the use of a web-based Zine-style intervention tool. They wanted the look and feel of the website to be more oriented toward their cultural images. Future research should examine if successful programs for reducing non-ceremonial tobacco use among urban AI/AN youth can keep young irregular smokers from becoming adult smokers.

Journal

Journal of Cancer EducationSpringer Journals

Published: Jan 16, 2010

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