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Barbara A. Berman, PhD1, Debra S. Guthmann, EdD2, Heidi B. Kleiger, BS3, Glenn C. Wong, MPH4, Elizabeth A. Eckhardt, CSW5, Lauren Maucere, BS3, and Coen A. Bernaards, PhD6. (1) Division of Cancer Prevention and Control Research, UCLA School of Public Health and Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center, UCLA-DCPCR A2-125 CHS, 650 Charles Young Drive South (Box 956900), Los Angeles, CA 90095-6900, (310) 794-9283, bberman@ucla.edu, (2) California School for the Deaf, Fremont, 39350 Gallaudet Drive, Fremont, CA 94538, (3) Greater Los Angeles Council on Deafness (GLAD), 2222 Laverna Avenue, Los Angeles, CA 90041, (4) Division of Cancer Prevention and Control Research, UCLA Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center, UCLA-DCPCR A2-125 CHS, Los Angeles, CA 90095-6900, (5) Deaf Research Projects, National Development & Research Institutes, Inc., 71 West 23rd Street, 8th Floor, New York, NY 10010, (6) AMC Cancer Research Center, 1600 Pierce Street, Denver, CO 80214
Deaf and hard-of-hearing (deaf/hh) youth are at risk for tobacco use and many of those who smoke want to quit. However, prevention and cessation materials and messages available to hearing youth are often inaccessible and inadequate for deaf/hh young people. We report here on a first-ever program of research, funded by the Tobacco Related Diseases Research Program (TRDRP, California), targeting this underserved and understudied population. We describe the partnership forged by GLAD (Greater Los Angeles Council on Deafness) and UCLA to identify the unmet tobacco control needs of this population. We present findings from a tobacco-related survey among 467 deaf/hh teenagers and young adults administered through the Interactive Video Questionnaire (IVQ), an innovative multi-media computer-based technology especially designed for the Deaf, and from in-depth in-person signed interviews among a subset of survey respondents. We also report on the collaboration between California School for the Deaf, Fremont (CSDF) and UCLA established to utilize these qualitative and quantitative data in the design of a tailored school-based tobacco control curriculum for deaf/hh youth. We present the elements of this curriculum and our in-progress efforts to assess the impact of this program on the knowledge, attitudes, and practices of deaf/hh middle- and high school students through a three-state, four school randomized controlled trial.
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Keywords: Deaf, Tobacco Control
Presenting author's disclosure statement:
I do not have any significant financial interest/arrangement or affiliation with any organization/institution whose products or services are being discussed in this session.