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Research Projects
Bridging the Gap: Research Informing Practice for Healthy Youth Behavior
This project, funded by The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, is a multi-disciplinary, multi-site collaborative endeavor intended to substantially expand existing knowledge on the conditions in the larger social environment that can influence the use of tobacco, alcohol, and illicit drugs by American young people. The ultimate goal is to help bring about changes in society that will help to substantially ameliorate these problem behaviors.
Contacts
Frank Chaloupka, PhD, University of Illinois at Chicago, (312) 413-2287, fjc@uic.edu
C. Tracy Orleans, PhD, The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, (609) 627-5962, cto@rwjf.org
Sandy Slater, MS, University of Illinois at Chicago, (312) 413-0475, sslater@uic.edu
Helping Young Smokers Quit
This evaluation project is a major initiative to identify, survey and evaluate existing youth cessation programs. Phase I of this two-phase project began September 2002, and data collection was complete in August 2003. The initial phase identified and characterized 592 existing smoking cessation programs for youth in a representative sample of 408 counties in the United States. The Phase I program survey obtained information about community context, organizational setting, participants, and program implementation, content and evaluation. The data is currently being processed; reports and manuscripts are under development.
In Phase II, standard measures and methodological approaches will be used to conduct evaluations of a strategic mix of practices now being used by youth cessation programs across the United States to treat a variety of adolescent populations, including traditionally underserved and high-risk groups (e.g., low-income, minority). The results of this initiative will help to fill a gap in knowledge about the types and elements of youth cessation programs that are currently being offered, those that are effective and ineffective, and point to promising directions for future research and programming. This program will also develop evaluation tools that youth cessation programs such as those funded by health plans and community-based programs can adopt for ongoing self-evaluation and quality improvement.
The effort is funded by The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation with co-funding by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the National Cancer Institute.
Funded by: RWJF, with co-funding by CDC and NCI
Contacts
Sue Curry, PhD, University of Illinois at Chicago, (312) 355-4438, suecurry@uic.edu
C. Tracy Orleans, PhD, The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, (609) 627-5962, cto@rwjf.org
Indicators for the Evaluation of Youth Cessation Programs
The Canadian Tobacco Control Research Initiative (CTCRI) is completing a background document as part of a process of
identifying, selecting, and facilitating the adoption of standardized indicators of behaviour change for the evaluation of youth cessation programs. The paper will present a review of selected literature on outcome measurement of youth cessation programs, identify a set of indicator measures for further discussion, and will provide discussion of strengths, weaknesses, and gaps in available measures. The target completion date for
this paper: April 30, 2005. Once complete, the recommendations from this paper will be reviewed and discussed at a meeting of researchers and practitioners, and subsequently reviewed by youth. This project is funded by Health Canada.
Contacts
Oonagh Maley, MISt, Canadian Tobacco Control Research Initiative, (416) 934-5653, omaley@ctcri.ca
Smoke-Free Families, National Research Office
The aim of this program is to reduce rates of smoking in families in the United States by supporting research to develop and evaluate effective new interventions to help women quit smoking before, during, and after pregnancy. Many women, including young adult women, who do not otherwise week or receive primary care or preventive services can be reached during family planning and prenatal care visits. This program supports innovative research demonstrations with promise to produce the next generation of more effective treatments
Contacts
Robert Goldenberg, MD, University of Alabama, Birmingham, (205) 934-3273, rlg@uab.edu
Trinita Hall Ashford, MPH, University of Alabama, Birmingham, (205) 975-8951, tashford@uab.edu
C. Tracy Orleans, PhD, The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, (609) 627-5962, cto@rwjf.org
Tobacco Etiology Research Network (TERN)
TERN is a transdisciplinary research network that is intended to achieve major scientific advances in understanding the transitions from initial to regular use to dependence on tobacco and cessation among adolescents and young adults. Findings and models developed by the TERN have been used by all Blueprint funders to define developmentally appropriate measures of youth quitting and to guide the development of innovative cessation strategies. The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation provides funding.
Contacts
Richard Clayton, PhD, University of Kentucky School of Public Health, (859) 257-5588, clayton@pop.uky.edu
Karen Gerlach, PhD, The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, (609) 627-5917, kgerlac@rwjf.org
Transdisciplinary Tobacco Use Research Centers (TTURC)
TTURC consists of seven academic institutions with the intent to study new and innovative ways to combat tobacco use, integrate research across scientific disciplines, speed transfer of innovative approaches to communities nationwide, and train a new generation of tobacco control researchers. Three of the seven TTURCs include research components addressing youth tobacco cessation, including the interaction between genes, environment and culture, tobacco control policy evaluation, and treatments for resistant smokers. Unique collaborations are being fostered among scientists across many disciplines to focus research on areas where there are gaps, including adolescent smoking.
TTURC is funded by the National Cancer Institute, the National Institute on Drug Abuse, and the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism.
Contacts
Allison Chausmer, PhD, National Institute on Drug Abuse, (301) 402-5088, achausme@nida.nih.gov
Joanne Fertig, PhD, National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, (301) 443-0635, jfertig@niaaa.nih.gov
Glen Morgan, PhD, National Cancer Institute, (301) 496-8584, morgang@mail.nih.gov
Youth Cessation Intervention Research
Under a collaborative effort, more than 40 extramural youth tobacco cessation research projects have been funded since 1999 through the National Institute of Health RFA process and investigator-initiated research. This initiative was designed to fund innovative research that has clear implications for the immediate and significant reduction of tobacco use by children and youth in the United States. The research projects build on progress in areas of youth and tobacco prevention; experimentation; onset of regular tobacco use; dependence; and withdrawal; and cessation and treatment of tobacco by adolescents. In addition, this research evaluates behavioral, pharmacological or self-help interventions for adolescent smoking and smokeless tobacco use.
This research is funded by the National Cancer Institute, the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, the National Institute on Drug Abuse, the National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research, the National Institute of Nursing Research, and the National Heart Lung, and Blood Institute.
Contacts
Cathy Backinger, PhD, MPH, National Cancer Institute, (301) 496-8584, backingc@mail.nih.gov
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