Building Research Evidence to Address Aboriginal Tobacco Habits (BREATHE)

• Reach:

  NSW

• Focus area:

  Indigenous

• Status:

  Current

• Evaluated:

  No

• Time frame:

  1 October 2008 - 31 December 2010

Overview

This project was funded by the Australian Respiratory Council and aims to:

• Increase the capacity of ACCHSs to implement local tobacco control activities and programs, and provide high quality evidence to inform future Aboriginal tobacco control program and policy development.
• Increase readiness to quit, number of quit attempts, and successful quit attempts.
• To contribute to the evidence base surrounding smoking issues and interventions in an Aboriginal comunity context.
• Develop a smoking cessation and tobacco control program that is sustainable and transferable to other ACCHSs

The BREATHE Project design was a community-randomised controlled trial, where six of 12 participating communities were randomly selected to receive the intervention. This allowed the impacts of having a specialist Tobacco Control Worker in ACCHSs (the intervention) to be compared with ACCHSs that continued with usual care.

The program intervention ended in March 2010; data collection activities were conducted in April/May; and analysis and reporting will be finished by the end of 2010. The program will be evaluated against pre-determined criteria.

Contacts

Sean Appoo
Aboriginal Health and Medical Research Council
Level 3
66 Wentworth Ave
Surrey Hills NSW 2010
PO Box 1565
Strawberry Hills NSW 2012
Ph: (02) 9212 4777
Email: SAppoo@ahmrc.org.au

Links

• View information: Building Research Evidence to Address Aboriginal Tobacco Habits (BREATHE)
• View website: Aboriginal Health and Medical Research Council of NSW (AH&MRC)
• View website: Centre for Excellence in Indigenous Tobacco Control (CEITC)