This trial develops a contextually tailored and optimized smoking cessation intervention and studies smoking motivations and motivations to quit smoking in homeless youth. Identifying motivations for smoking and motivations to quit smoking may help researchers build a program to help homeless young people quit smoking cigarettes if desired.
Youth who report having smoked some or every day in the past week.
Youth who meet criteria for homelessness defined by the 2002 McKinney-Vento Act including those who lack a fixed, regular, and adequate nighttime residence; live in a welfare hotel, or place without regular sleeping accommodations; or live in a shared residence with other persons due to the loss of one's housing or economic hardship.
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Sequential
Focus Group
BehavioralParticipate in focus group
Interview
Other interventionParticipate in semi-structured interview
Smoking Cessation Intervention
BehavioralParticipate in feasibility study of intervention components
Survey Administration
Other interventionComplete survey
Youth's psychological and physical capacity (capability)
Participant's psychological and physical capacity that have prompted them in the past or may motivate them to 1) smoke, 2) make a quit attempt, and 3) engage in supported cessation will be captured. An iterative approach to team-based codebook development and coding will be used to analyze interview data. In Stage 1, text will be coded according to the specific research question using structural codes. In Stage 2, in depth codes will be created using emergent themes from the structurally coded text. The coders will create as many in depth codes as needed in order to capture all aspects of youth's perspective on current psychosocial influences on smoking, and the psychological and physical capacities critical to engagement in tobacco cessation intervention. Data is separated by the age cut-off for standard recommendations regarding cessation intervention (14-17 and 18-24) to assess if differences exist that should be considered for intervention in homeless drop in centers.
Youth's physical and social factors (opportunity)
Participant's physical and social factors (opportunity) that have prompted them in the past or may motivate them to 1) smoke, 2) make a quit attempt, and 3) engage in supported cessation will be captured. In Stage 1, text will be coded according to the specific research question using structural codes. In Stage 2, in depth codes will be created using emergent themes from the structurally coded text. The coders will create as many in depth codes as needed in order to capture all aspects of youth's perspective on current psychosocial influences on smoking, and the physical and social opportunities critical to engagement in tobacco cessation intervention. Data is separated by the age cut-off for standard recommendations regarding cessation intervention (14-17 and 18-24) to assess if differences exist that should be considered for intervention in homeless drop in centers.
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Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center
Lead sponsor
National Cancer Institute (NCI)
Collaborator
