title: Adaptation of a smoking cessation and prevention website for urban American Indian/Alaska Native youth.
abstract: Tobacco use among American Indian youth is a disproportionately significant problem. We adapted and modified an existing web-based and youth-focused tobacco control program to make it appropriate for young urban American Indian/Alaska Natives (AI/ANs). The results of the focus group indicate that AI/AN youth were very receptive to the use of a web-based Zine-style intervention tool. They wanted the look and feel of the website to be more oriented toward their cultural images. Future research should examine if successful programs for reducing non-ceremonial tobacco use among urban AI/AN youth can keep young irregular smokers from becoming adult smokers.
authors.affiliation: Seattle Indian Health Board and the Urban Indian Health Institute, Seattle, USA.
authors.forename: Maile
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Taualii
authors.forename: Nigel
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Bush
authors.forename: Deborah J
authors.initials: DJ
authors.lastname: Bowen
authors.forename: Ralph
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Forquera
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000329:Advertising; D000413:Alaska; D002648:Child; D054521:Cultural Competency; D005260:Female; D006266:Health Education / Q000379:methods; D006801:Humans; D007198:Indians, North American; D020407:Internet; D008297:Male; D010865:Pilot Projects; D016540:Smoking Cessation / Q000208:ethnology* / Q000379:methods*; D014505:Urban Population