title: Applying community-based participatory research principles to the development of a smoking-cessation program for American Indian teens: "telling our story".
abstract: Community-based participatory research provides communities and researchers with opportunities to develop interventions that are effective as well as acceptable and culturally competent. The present project responds to the voices of the North Carolina American Indian (AI) community and the desire for their youth to recognize tobacco addiction and commercial cigarette smoking as debilitating to their health and future. Seven community-based participatory principles led to the AI adaptation of the Not On Tobacco teen-smoking-cessation program and fostered sound research and meaningful results among an historically exploited population. Success was attributed to values-driven, community-based principles that (a) assured recognition of a community-driven need, (b) built on strengths of the tribes, (c) nurtured partnerships in all project phases, (d) integrated the community's cultural knowledge, (e) produced mutually beneficial tools/products, (f) built capacity through co-learning and empowerment, (g) used an iterative process of development, and (h) shared findings/ knowledge with all partners.
authors.affiliation: West Virginia University, Morgantown 26505, USA. khorn@hsc.wvu.edu
authors.forename: Kimberly
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Horn
authors.forename: Lyn
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: McCracken
authors.forename: Geri
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Dino
authors.forename: Missy
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Brayboy
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D019058:Community Networks / Q000458:organization & administration*; D003256:Community Participation; D017408:Guidelines as Topic; D006293:Health Promotion / Q000458:organization & administration*; D006801:Humans; D007198:Indians, North American; D009657:North Carolina; D016730:Program Development / Q000379:methods*; D012106:Research; D016540:Smoking Cessation; D014029:Tobacco Use Disorder / Q000517:prevention & control