Exploring resilience and coping in relation to smoking within 'at risk' populations
CRCAH Project No: IKCD284
Administering Organisation:
Flinders University
Project Leader:
George Tsourtos
Contact Details:
george.tsourtos@flinders.edu.au
Program Manager:
Arwen Nikolof
Chronic Conditions program
Partners Involved:
- Flinders University
- South Australian Department of Health
- Adelaide University
- University of South Australia
- Aboriginal Health Council of SA
- Heart Foundation
- Cancer Council of SA
This project is endorsed as an in-kind project of the CRCAH.
Project Summary:
This project will investigate what psychological, social, political or environmental factors contribute to successful quitting or resilience against taking up smoking in populations where a high percentage of individuals smoke. This will be done through a literature review and interviews.
The literature review will systematically search for information on resilience, coping and smoking. The interviews will then explore and explain the barriers and facilitators to ‘never smoking’ and ’quitting’ in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders people, mentally ill and young people. Long-term smokers will also be interviewed in these 3 ‘at risk’ populations to ascertain why they are resilient to public health messages regarding the adverse health effects of smoking tobacco products.
Summary of Projected Outcomes:
- Inform South Australian state-wide policy responses to smoking.
- Enable better targeting of smoking programmes and interventions to key population groups (Aboriginal groups, mentally ill and young people).
- Contribute to, and inform, the South Australian Department of Health’s response to the South Australian Strategic Plan (SASP) target.
Timeline: October 2007 - September 2009