Empower Korean Families to End Tobacco Use & Smoking Exposure

Empower Korean Families to End Tobacco Use & Smoking Exposure

The goals of the study are to develop a culturally and linguistically appropriate intervention to promote smoking cessation and reduce secondhand smoke exposure for Korean Americans using a family-based intervention approach targeting Korean Americans ages 18 and above in the greater San Francisco Bay Area, CA, and to evaluate efficacy of the proposed intervention. The study is a randomized control trial targeting a total of 8 lay health workers (LHW) and 48 dyads of a daily smoker and a partner who will attend intervention sessions together. The research question is: Can a family-based lay health worker outreach intervention promote smoking cessation and reduce SHS exposure among Korean Americans?

Inclusion Criteria:

• reside in California, United States
• for the smoker participants, they must have smoked at least 1 cigarette in the past 30 days, and have smoked either at least 1 cigarette and/or used e-cigarettes in the past 7 days, and self-identified as Korean or Korean American
• for partner participants, they must be willing to attend intervention session together with a smoker participant
• provide a valid contact telephone number and email address for pre- and post-intervention assessments