Focus groups of Alaska Native adolescent tobacco users: Preferences for tobacco cessation interventions and barriers to participation

Health Education and Behavior

Volumn 36, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 711-723

  Patten, Christi A ^a   Enoch, Carrie ^b   Renner, Caroline C ^c   Offord, Kenneth P ^a   Nevak, Caroline ^b   Kelley, Stacy F ^c   Thomas, Janet ^d   Decker, Paul A ^a   Hurt, Richard D ^a   Lanier, Anne ^c   Kaur, Judith S ^a  

^a Mayo Clinic College of Medicine   (United States)

^b Yukon Kuskokwim Health Corporation   (United States)

^c Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Adolescents; Alaska Native; Focus groups; Intervention; Tobacco cessation; Tobacco use

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; CHILD; DECISION MAKING; ESKIMO; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MALE; MOTIVATION; PATIENT SELECTION; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SMOKING; SMOKING CESSATION; STATISTICS; UNITED STATES;

ADOLESCENT; ALASKA; CHILD; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; FOCUS GROUPS; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMANS; INTENTION; INUITS; MALE; MOTIVATION; PATIENT SELECTION; SMOKING; SMOKING CESSATION;

EID: 69549135839     PISSN: 10901981     EISSN: 15526127     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1090198107309456     Document Type: Article

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