Tribal Tobacco Use Project II: Planning, Implementation, and Dissemination Using Culturally Relevant
Friday, July 15, 2022
Posted by: Natalia Gromov
Roland
KM, Anderson MD, Carroll DM, et al.
Tribal Tobacco Use Project
II: Planning, Implementation, and Dissemination Using Culturally Relevant Data
Collection among American Indian Communities.
Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2022;19(13):7708. Published 2022 Jun 23.
doi:10.3390/ijerph19137708
American Indians have substantially higher commercial tobacco-related cancer
rates when compared to the general population. To effectively combat commercial
tobacco-related cancer, it is important that tribal nations obtain current and
accurate community-specific data on commercial tobacco use and exposure-related
attitudes and behaviors. With the goal to collect, synthesize, and disseminate
data on tobacco use, including the role traditional tobacco plays among
American Indian people, the American Indian Cancer Foundation (AICAF) and
various stakeholders developed and implemented the Tribal Tobacco Use Project
II (TTUP II) during 2018-2021. Building upon its predecessor, the Tribal
Tobacco Use Project I (TTUP I), TTUP II used principles of community-based
participatory research and culturally appropriate methods, such as
Reality-Based Research, in partnership with tribal nations. We describe the
TTUP II rationale, methods for participant recruitment and data collection,
emphasizing the importance of using culturally relevant survey items to
disentangle commercial tobacco use from traditional tobacco use. American
Indian traditional tobacco is viewed as medicine in these communities with a
unique socio-cultural context that must be addressed when engaging in
commercial tobacco control efforts in American Indian communities. This
approach may be useful to other tribal nations who are interested in conducting
culturally relevant tobacco surveillance efforts.
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