Understanding smoking initiation in Essex in order to help design smoking interventions
| Author(s)
Linda Homan and Kerry Mison
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Linda Homan PhD Student Researcher, Anglia Ruskin University, Ely | Abstract This is a Participatory Research study into smoking initiation with Smoke Free Essex Tobacco Control Alliance (SFETCA) professionals, and an Anglia Ruskin University PhD student researcher amongst young people from populations where smoking uptake is still high in Essex.
This study explores why young people from certain backgrounds still take up smoking despite Essex having the lowest smoking figures in the country (18% in East of England compared to 21% Nationally.
Difficult to reach young people will be studied across North, Mid and South Essex. There are pockets of high smoking populations in Essex, for example in Thurrock 26.2% of the population smoke (ERPHO 2010). In order to target interventions relating to health behaviour change, there is a need to ‘analyze the behaviour’ that is the focus of the intervention and then to plan the intervention with this in mind (Perry 1999). This study aims to survey a target population to assess the factors which represent the key facts surrounding negative health behaviours in order to develop targeted responses.
| Source of funding: None
| Declaration of interest: None
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