Identifying pragmatic solutions to reduce cigarette smoking prevalence in Indigenous North Americans: A sequential exploratory mixed-methods study protocol.

Background: American Indians and Alaska Natives (AI/AN) have the highest prevalence of cigarette smoking of any race or ethnicity in the United States. Efforts to address smoking prevalence in this population have not historically targeted maintenance of smoking cessation, or behaviors associated with pregnancy. Recent longitudinal cohort studies have identified maintenance of cessation and pregnancy as potential opportunities to address smoking in AI/AN people.

Improving Patient Understanding and Outcomes in Lung Cancer Using an Animated Patient's Guide with Visual Formats of Learning.

Lung cancer patient education resources that address barriers to health literacy, improve understanding, and demonstrate improved patient outcomes are limited. Our study aim was to evaluate and report on learner knowledge improvement and intent to implement behavior change, and validate the benefits of the You and Lung Cancer website and YouTube resources. Our study occurred from November 2017 to December 2023.

Racial, Ethnic, and Geographic Disparities in Digestive Diseases Mortality in the United States, 2000-2019.

Background And Aims: The global burden of digestive diseases mortality has been increasing over the last 3 decades. However, little is known about disparities in digestive diseases-specific mortality in the United States. This study aimed to examine racial, ethnic, and state- and county-level disparities in digestive diseases mortality rate in the United States between 2000 and 2019.

Understanding determinants of lung cancer preventive care in at-risk urban American Indians and Alaska Natives: A mixed-methods study.

Introduction: Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer death among American Indian and Alaska Native (AI/AN) people, and AI/AN people have the highest rate of smoking of any racial or ethnic group in the US. There is limited research to inform culturally-relevant strategies for lung cancer prevention inclusive of lung cancer screening (LCS). The objective of this study was to understand determinants of LCS and tobacco cessation care in at-risk urban-dwelling AI/ANs.

Smoking Behaviors Among Indigenous Pregnant People Compared to a Matched Regional Cohort.

Introduction: Smoking commercial tobacco products is highly prevalent in American Indian and Alaska Native (Indigenous) pregnancies. This disparity directly contributes to maternal and fetal mortality. Our objective was to describe cigarette smoking prevalence, cessation intervention uptake, and cessation behaviors of pregnant Indigenous people compared to sex and age-matched regional cohort.

Indigenous Smoking Behaviors in Olmsted County, Minnesota: A Longitudinal Population-Based Study.

Objective: To describe smoking behaviors and pharmaceutical cessation aid uptake in a population-based Indigenous cohort compared with an age- and sex-matched non-Indigenous cohort.

Patients And Methods: Using the health record-linkage system of the Rochester Epidemiology Project (January 1, 2006, to December 31, 2019), smoking data of Indigenous residents of Olmsted County in Minnesota were abstracted to define the smoking prevalence, incidence, cessation, relapse after cessation, and pharmaceutical smoking cessation aid uptake compared with a matched non-Indigenous cohort. Prevalence was analyzed with a modified Poisson regression; cessation and relapse were evaluated with generalized estimating equations.

Smoking Cessation Interventions in Indigenous North Americans: A Meta-Narrative Systematic Review.

Introduction: Indigenous North Americans have the highest cigarette smoking prevalence among all racial and ethnic groups in the United States. We seek to identify effective components of smoking cessation interventions in Indigenous people in the United States associated with favorable cessation outcomes.

Methods: A review of literature studying smoking cessation interventions in Indigenous North Americans (American Indians and Alaska Natives) from January 2010 through August 2021 was completed.