Internet-Based Smoking Cessation Intervention for Korean-American Men

University of California at Berkeley: Center for Family and Community Health

Topics:
Tobacco Prevention & Control

The rate of smoking for Korean-American men is significantly higher than for non-Asian-American adults. Most Korean-American men who try to quit smoking do so on their own. They also report using the Internet daily, often to find health information. The project team recognizes the potential of the Internet as a convenient, low-cost way to study the effectiveness of two self-help smoking interventions.

The center’s staff and Korean Community Advisory Board are designing an Internet-based study and will recruit 2,200 Korean-American male smokers to participate. The smokers will be randomly assigned to one of two self-help smoking cessation programs. All the program content will be in English and Korean and adapted to the perspectives of Korean-American men.

All participants will complete online surveys indicating their smoking status and smoking behaviors at 5-week intervals for one year. The researchers will assess the effectiveness of the interventions by comparing the number of participants who quit smoking in each group. Researchers will also determine whether participants in the two intervention groups advanced through the stages of change at different rates, and identify which program aspects were most effective for which stage of change. They will explore the processes participants’ used to quit smoking, and determine if and when participants’ started smoking again.

 

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