6/19/2023 0 Comments Quit smoking synonyms![]() ![]() We then asked them to discuss and reflect on what interventions they feel would work as part of a ‘resilience intervention’ for smoking cessation. This study aimed to engage with people from a lower SES population, hence we recruited smokers who reside in lower socioeconomic areas and have low incomes. In order to successfully develop and implement such programs, the voices from this target population need to be heard, understood, and allowed to meaningfully influence program design. There is, however, promising evidence that the relative disadvantage of lower SES populations (in our study this means people with low incomes and living in lower socioeconomic areas, where multiple barriers to smoking cessation are likely to be at play at both the individual and area levels) can be mitigated if smoking cessation interventions are tailored to the specific requirements of this population. Brown et al.’s systematic review of smoking cessation interventions concluded that quit programs that have not specifically targeted lower socioeconomic status (SES) groups are more likely, overall, to lead to increased inequalities in smoking. In 2014–15, 20% of people living in the most disadvantaged areas of Australia smoked compared to 7% in the least disadvantaged areas. ![]() Smoking prevalence is inequitably high for people living in lower socioeconomic status populations and who have low incomes in many countries including Australia. Further research should involve development and trial of this resilience program. This process of collaborative and complex knowledge-generation is critically important to confront inequities as an ongoing challenge in public health, such as smoking cessation for disadvantaged groups. This research applied principles from deliberative democracy in order to illuminate lay knowledge regarding an appropriate and acceptable smoking cessation resilience program for a lower SES population. Consensus indicated that mindfulness training and setting realistic goals were the most acceptable resilience enhancing interventions, based on perceived usefulness and feasibility. Six smoking cessation interventions, likely to enhance resilience, were selected as potential constituents for RISC: mindfulness training setting realistic goals support groups smoke free environments mobile phone apps and motivational interviewing. Qualitative data were collected from participant reflections and group discussion, and analysed thematically. The Wilcoxon signed-ranked test was used where appropriate. ![]() ![]() Data were collected from multiple Likert ratings and rankings of the interventions during the NGT workshop and analysed descriptively. The NGT included 16 people from a lower SES population in southern metropolitan Adelaide who indicated they were seriously contemplating quitting smoking or had recently quit. We then employed the Nominal Group Technique (NGT) to create discussion and consensus on the most socially appropriate and feasible components from the perspective of smokers from low SES areas. Potential components for RISC were selected based on evidence within the literature for their effectiveness. Public health databases were searched to find efficacious psycho-social resilience interventions in the peer-reviewed literature for smoking cessation amongst lower SES populations. Deliberative democracy principles were then used to understand lay perspectives regarding this potential smoking cessation program. This study aimed to develop a Resilience Intervention for Smoking Cessation (RISC) through reviewing the extant literature around efficacious interventions for smoking cessation. The psychosocial interactive model of resilience theorises that resilience might be ‘switched on’ in order to support and/or maintain smoking cessation for these populations. Smoking prevalence remains inequitably high for lower SES (socioeconomic status) populations. ![]()
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