Our study

Adults with low socioeconomic status (SES) smoke at significantly higher rates than the general population and are less likely to attend primary care visits, where a majority of tobacco cessation interventions occur. Community health workers (CHW), who are frontline public health workers and trusted members of the communities in which they serve, are well-positioned to engage persons with low SES outside of the traditional primary care setting to intervene on commercial tobacco use directly. The objective of the proposed study is to modify a tobacco cessation training to develop an efficient, timesaving resource for CHW who serve low SES communities. We will modify the well-established Clinical Practice Guidelines 5A’s model using the results of the needs assessment. We will use a community-engaged approach by conducting qualitative focus groups to obtain input of CHW during the adaptation of the training. Major outcomes of the focus groups will be to determine a) the type of tobacco-related content to include in the training curriculum and b) a training delivery design that is relevant for CHW.