Advanced Search

Journal Navigation

Journal Home

Subscriptions

Archive

Contact Us

Table of Contents

CiteULike is a free service for managing and discovering scholarly references - click here to get started.

Sign In to gain access to subscriptions and/or personal tools.
Health Education & Behavior
This Article
Right arrow Full Text (OnlineFirst PDF)
Right arrow All Versions of this Article:
1090198107309456v1
36/4/711    most recent
Right arrow Alert me when this article is cited
Right arrow Alert me if a correction is posted
Services
Right arrow Email this article to a friend
Right arrow Similar articles in this journal
Right arrow Similar articles in PubMed
Right arrow Alert me to new issues of the journal
Right arrow Add to Saved Citations
Right arrow Download to citation manager
Right arrowRequest Permissions
Right arrow Request Reprints
Right arrow Add to My Marked Citations
Citing Articles
Right arrow Citing Articles via Google Scholar
Right arrow Citing Articles via Scopus
Google Scholar
Right arrow Articles by Patten, C. A.
Right arrow Articles by Kaur, J. S.
Right arrow Search for Related Content
PubMed
Right arrow PubMed Citation
Right arrow Articles by Patten, C. A.
Right arrow Articles by Kaur, J. S.
Social Bookmarking
Add to CiteULike   Add to Complore   Add to Connotea   Add to Del.icio.us   Add to Digg   Add to Reddit   Add to Technorati   Add to Twitter  
What's this?

Article

Focus Groups of Alaska Native Adolescent Tobacco Users: Preferences for Tobacco Cessation Interventions and Barriers to Participation

Christi A. Patten, PhD1*, Carrie Enoch2, Caroline C. Renner, MPH3, Kenneth P. Offord, MS1, Caroline Nevak2, Stacy F. Kelley, BS3, Janet Thomas, PhD4, Paul A. Decker, MS1, Richard D. Hurt, MD1, Anne Lanier, MD, MPH3, and Judith S. Kaur, MD1

1 Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, Rochester, Minnesota
2 Yukon-Kuskokwim Health Corporation, Bethel, Alaska
3 Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium, Anchorage, Alaska
4 Department of Medicine, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnnesota

* To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: patten.christi{at}mayo.edu.


  Abstract
Tobacco cessation interventions developed for Alaska Native adolescents do not exist. This study employed focus group methodology to explore preferences for tobacco cessation interventions and barriers to participation among 49 Alaska Natives (61% female) with a mean age of 14.6 (SD = 1.6) who resided in western Alaska. Using content analysis, themes from the 12 focus groups were found to be consistent across village, gender, and age groups. Program location or site (e.g., away from the village, hunting, fishing), a group-based format, and inclusion of medication and personal stories were reported to be important attributes of cessation programs. Motivators to quit tobacco were the perceived adverse health effects of tobacco, improved self-image and appearance, and the potential to be a future role model as a non–tobacco user for family and friends. Parents were perceived as potentially supportive to the adolescent in quitting tobacco. The findings will be used to develop tobacco cessation programs for Alaska Native youth.

First published on November 29, 2007, doi:10.1177/1090198107309456

Health Education & Behavior 2009;36:711.

A more recent version of this article appeared on August 1, 2009

Add to CiteULike CiteULike   Add to Complore Complore   Add to Connotea Connotea   Add to Del.icio.us Del.icio.us   Add to Digg Digg   Add to Reddit Reddit   Add to Technorati Technorati   Add to Twitter Twitter    What's this?