Community-based participatory research on smoking cessation among Chinese Americans in Flushing, Queens, New York City

Community-Based Participatory Research and Smoking Cessation Interventions: A Review of the Evidence

“…Shelley and colleagues [21, 22] evaluated the effect of community-wide policy changes on cessation, in addition to a cadre of PHS based cessation programs and resources in the treatment community. Froelicher and colleagues [14, 15] enhanced their 5-week PHS guided intervention (i.e., counseling, nicotine replacement therapy) with tailored tobacco industry and media messages to reinforce tobacco industry targeting to the African American community.…”

“…In other studies, the origination was either unknown and/or originated from the academic or clinical partner. The partnerships were utilized to conduct needs assessment surveys (quantitative and/or qualitative) [10–15, 21, 22, 29, 31, 32], intervention development [10–19, 20, 21–23, 26–28, 30–32], recruitment of participants (10–28,30–32], intervention delivery [10–19, 21–28, 31, 32], evaluation [10–13, 16–19, 24–28,31,32], and dissemination [10–13, 16–19, 24, 25, 31,32]. …”

“…Dissemination in community settings was typically town hall forums or community meetings or workshops, advisory or steering groups, newsletters, and local media. Several studies implemented policy changes in the targeted setting [10–13, 21, 22, 26–28, 31, 32], which potentially may increase the likelihood of sustainability. Two of these authors [24, 25, 31, 32] described sustainability of the intervention post initial grant funding, as a result of leadership, systems and/or environmental changes, and governing infrastructures.…”

“…The seven studies with quasi-experimental or experimental designs [10–22, 24, 25, 30] scored 2.2 or higher. The remaining four studies were descriptive or observational studies with one group only [21–23, 29, 31, 32]. Eight studies measured abstinence rates at six months or longer [10–23, 29, 30], yet four of these eight studies [20–23, 30] did not biochemically validate self-report outcomes.…”

Effectiveness of tobacco control among Chinese Americans: A comparative analysis of policy approaches versus community-based programs

“…The research team incorporated key principles of community-based participatory research in the final development of the intervention protocol (Israel et al, 1998; Schulz et al, 1998; Burton et al, 2004). A community advisory board (CAB) was established by the lead community-based organization (CBO), AAFE, and was comprised of members from a wide range of organizations in the intervention community.…”