| CRCAH Project No: IKCD284 |
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Administering Organisation:
Flinders University
Project Leader:
George Tsourtos
Contact Details:
george.tsourtos@flinders.edu.au
Program Manager:
Arwen Nikolof
Chronic Conditions
program
Partners Involved:
- Flinders University
- South Australian Department of Health
- Adelaide University
- University of South Australia
- Aboriginal Health Council of SA
- Heart Foundation
- Cancer Council of SA
This project is endorsed as an in-kind project of the
CRCAH.
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Project Summary:
This project will
investigate what psychological, social, political or
environmental factors contribute to successful quitting or
resilience against taking up smoking in populations where a high
percentage of individuals smoke. This will be done through a
literature review and interviews.
The literature review will systematically search for information
on resilience, coping and smoking. The interviews will then
explore and explain the barriers and facilitators to ‘never
smoking’ and ’quitting’ in Aboriginal and Torres
Strait Islanders people, mentally ill and young people.
Long-term smokers will also be interviewed in these 3 ‘at
risk’ populations to ascertain why they are resilient
to public health messages regarding the adverse health effects of
smoking tobacco products.
Summary of Projected
Outcomes:
- Inform South Australian state-wide policy responses to
smoking.
- Enable better targeting of smoking programmes and interventions
to key population groups (Aboriginal groups, mentally ill and young
people).
- Contribute to, and inform, the South Australian Department of
Health’s response to the South Australian Strategic Plan
(SASP) target.
Timeline: October 2007 - September 2009
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