'I know it's bad for me and yet I do it': exploring the factors that perpetuate smoking in Aboriginal Health Workers - a qualitative study

Aboriginal Health Workers (AHWs) have a mandate to deliver smoking cessation support to Aboriginal people. However, a high proportion of AHWs are smokers and this undermines their delivery of smoking cessation programs. Smoking tobacco is the leading contributor to the burden of disease in Aboriginal Australians and must be prevented. Little is known about how to enable AHWs to quit smoking. An understanding of the factors that perpetuate smoking in AHWs is needed to inform the development of culturally relevant programs that enable AHWs to quit smoking. A reduction of smoking in AHWs is important to promote their health and also optimise the delivery of smoking cessation support to Aboriginal clients.

Output(s)

"I know it’s bad for me and yet I do it": exploring the factors that perpetuate smoking in Aboriginal Health Workers - a qualitative study

Type

Journal article

Authors

Anna P Dawson, Margaret Cargo, Harold Stewart, Alwin Chong and Mark Daniel

Publisher

BMC Health Services Research

Publication date

2012

Rights notice

© 2012 Dawson et al.; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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1472-6963-12-102.pdf

Link

https://bmchealthservres.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/1472-6963-12-102#ci…

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Project contact(s)

Mark Daniel

mark.daniel@unisa.edu.au

Researcher(s)

Dr Anna Dawson
Associate Professor Margaret Cargo
Harold “Bundamurra” Stewart
Associate Professor Alwin Chong
Mark Daniel

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Topic(s)

Closing the Gap focus

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Organisation(s)

Indigenous involvement

Indigenous involvement notes

The recruitment strategy was guided by two Aboriginal members of the investigating team who advised when to visit health services based upon their knowledge of local challenges, opportunities and competing organisational demands. The interviewers were non-Aboriginal non-smokers
who were experienced in conducting individual and focus group interviews and in undertaking research in Aboriginal communities. The first author conducted an analysis of the full dataset. Next, MC undertook a secondary review of the subdivision of data and the content and labelling of each
category. A series of discussions were held between AD and MC to refine the content, labelling and meaning of categories. Given that AD and MC are non-Aboriginal researchers, further review by Aboriginal team members and AHWs was paramount. Hence, AD and MC consulted with an Aboriginal investigator (AC) and the Tackling Tobacco Coordinator (HS) to review and refine the categories. AHW representatives who were members
of the Aboriginal Primary Health Care Workers Forum were then presented with the findings and invited to make amendments.

Harold “Bundamurra” Stewart is an Aboriginal elder, originally from La Perouse on Botany Bay. He is from the Yuin and Eora nations and has been living in SA for 42 years.

Associate Professor Alwin Chong is a Wakamin man from Far North Queensland.

'I know it's bad for me and yet I do it': exploring the factors that perpetuate smoking in Aboriginal Health Workers - a qualitative study

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