title: Smoking cessation counseling for Asian immigrants with serious mental illness: using RE-AIM to understand challenges and lessons learned in primary care-behavioral health integration.
abstract: Engagement in modifiable risk behaviors, such as tobacco use, substantially contributes to early mortality rates in individuals with serious mental illness (SMI). There is an alarmingly high prevalence of tobacco use among subgroups of Asian Americans, such as immigrants and individuals with SMI, yet there are no empirically supported effective smoking cessation interventions that have been tailored to meet the unique cultural, cognitive, and psychological needs of Asian immigrants with SMI. In this article, we share the experiences of clinicians in the delivery of smoking cessation counseling to Asian American immigrants with SMI, in the context of an Asian-focused integrated primary care and behavioral health setting. Through a qualitative analysis of clinician perspectives organized with the RE-AIM framework, we outline challenges, lessons learned, and promising directions for delivering smoking cessation counseling to Asian American immigrant clients with SMI.
authors.affiliation: Department of Internal Medicine, University of California, Davis, Sacramento, CA 95817, USA. asaw@ucdavis.edu
authors.forename: Anne
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Saw
authors.forename: Jin
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Kim
authors.forename: Joyce
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Lim
authors.forename: Catherine
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Powell
authors.forename: Elisa K
authors.initials: EK
authors.lastname: Tong
mesh_terms: D001213:Asian; D054521:Cultural Competency; D054242:Emigrants and Immigrants; D005260:Female; D006293:Health Promotion; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000208:ethnology*; D015995:Prevalence; D011320:Primary Health Care / Q000458:organization & administration; D012309:Risk-Taking; D016540:Smoking Cessation / Q000379:methods* / Q000523:psychology*
keywords: Asian; cessation; community intervention; cultural competence; minority health; tobacco prevention and control