title: Culturally tailored smoking cessation for arab american male smokers in community settings: a pilot study.
abstract: Tobacco use is a serious public health problem among Arab Americans with limited English proficiency. The main goal of this study was to develop a culturally-tailored and linguistically-sensitive Arabic-language smoking cessation program. A secondary goal was to evaluate the feasibility of recruiting Arab Americans through a faith-based community organization which serves as a neighborhood social center for the city of Richmond's Arab Americans. Eight first-generation Arab American men aged 20 years and above completed the three-month program. There was general agreement of the following: (1) each stage of the five-stage cessation program could be improved; (2) several glaring errors could be easily corrected; and (3) minor variation among the various countries-of-origin of participants could lead to a few changes in the program with respect to the use of some colloquial terms. The results suggest that it is possible to reach smokers from Arab American communities with a tailored Arabic language smoking cessation program. The findings of this report will be used as the basis for a large-scale intervention study of a culturally and linguistically sensitive cessation program for Arab American ethnic groups.
authors.affiliation: School of Nursing and Institute for Drug and Alcohol Studies, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia, USA.
authors.forename: Linda
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Haddad
authors.affiliation: School of Social Work, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia, USA.
authors.forename: Jacqueline
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Corcoran
keywords: Arab American; community setting; smoking cessation