The Development of Culturally Appropriate Tobacco Prevention Videos Targeted Toward Somali Youth.

Background: Approximately 18% of Somali youth in Minnesota intend to use tobacco in the next year and youth perceive that 64% of their peers smoke. High perceived prevalence increases tobacco use intentions and initiation, indicating that Somali youth-targeted tobacco prevention efforts are needed.

Objectives: To develop a Somali youth-targeted tobacco prevention intervention using a community-based participatory research (CBPR) approach.

Cigarettes and the Somali diaspora: tobacco use among Somali adults in Minnesota.

Background: Since the onset of the Somali civil war in 1991, more than 1 million Somalis have been displaced from Somalia. Minnesota has the largest Somali population in the U.S.

Characteristics and prevalence of tobacco use among Somali youth in Minnesota.

Background: Somalis compose the largest African refugee group in the U.S., with more than 55,000 primary arrivals since 2000.

Tobacco use and cessation among Somalis in Minnesota.

Background: Somalis compose the largest African refugee group living in the U.S., with more than 10,330 primary arrivals in fiscal year 2006 alone.

Somali refugee women speak out about their needs for care during pregnancy and delivery.

More than half of all Somali refugees in the United States live in Minnesota. To obtain information to develop culturally sensitive health education materials, we conducted two focus groups with 14 Somali women who had each given birth to one child in Minnesota. Overall, women thought that their childbirth experience was positive.