Abstract

Cigarette smoking is the leading modifiable risk factor for more than 16 types of cancer including lung, head and neck, stomach, liver, pancreas, colon and rectum, and bladder cancers. Despite the decrease in smoking rates nationally, prevalence of smoking remains high among sexual and gender minorities. Specifically, 35.5% of transgender and gender nonbinary (TGNB) adults smoke cigarettes compared to 14.9% of straight cisgender adults. The purpose of this pilot study is to examine smoking risk and protective factors through real-world exemplars from TGNC individuals using private social media groups (Facebook and Instagram). The real-world exemplars, phrases, meanings of smoking-related triggers and protective factors, and feasibility data from this research will serve as the foundation for designing culturally sensitive narrative messages to promote smoking cessation through social media among the TGNC community.

  Funding Agency

Agency
National Institute of Health (NIH)
Institute
National Cancer Institute (NCI)
Type
Specialized Center--Cooperative Agreements (U54)
Project #
5U54CA156734-09
Application #
10004834
Study Section
Special Emphasis Panel (ZCA1)
Program Officer
Aguila, Hector Nelson
Project Start
Project End
Budget Start
2019-09-01
Budget End
2020-08-31
Support Year
9
Fiscal Year
2019
Total Cost
Indirect Cost

  Institution

Name
University of Massachusetts Boston
Department
Type
DUNS #
808008122
City
Boston
State
MA
Country
United States
Zip Code
02125

  Publications

Bellinger, Stephanie; Hatamimoslehabadi, Maryam; Borg, Raymond E et al. (2018) Characterization of a NIR absorbing thienyl curcumin contrast agent for photoacoustic imaging. Chem Commun (Camb) 54:6352-6355
Kumar, Niraj; Zarringhalam, Kourosh; Kulkarni, Rahul V (2018) Stochastic Modeling of Gene Regulation by Noncoding Small RNAs in the Strong Interaction Limit. Biophys J 114:2530-2539
Zarringhalam, Kourosh; Degras, David; Brockel, Christoph et al. (2018) Robust phenotype prediction from gene expression data using differential shrinkage of co-regulated genes. Sci Rep 8:1237
Patalano, Susan; Rodríguez-Nieves, José; Colaneri, Cory et al. (2018) CXCL12/CXCR4-Mediated Procollagen Secretion Is Coupled To Cullin-RING Ubiquitin Ligase Activation. Sci Rep 8:3499
Fakhry, Carl T; Zarringhalam, Kourosh; Kulkarni, Rahul V (2018) Bioinformatic Approach for Prediction of CsrA/RsmA-Regulating Small RNAs in Bacteria. Methods Mol Biol 1737:47-56
Borg, Raymond E; Rochford, Jonathan (2018) Molecular Photoacoustic Contrast Agents: Design Principles & Applications. Photochem Photobiol 94:1175-1209
Borg, Raymond E; Hatamimoslehabadi, Maryam; Bellinger, Stephanie et al. (2018) Photophysical and Photoacoustic Properties of ?-Extended Curcumin Dyes. Effects of the Terminal Dimethylamino Electron-donor and the Bridging Aryl Ring. Photochem Photobiol :
Webster, Kaitlyn A; Schach, Ursula; Ordaz, Angel et al. (2017) Dmrt1 is necessary for male sexual development in zebrafish. Dev Biol 422:33-46
Kang, Tianyu; Ding, Wei; Zhang, Luoyan et al. (2017) A biological network-based regularized artificial neural network model for robust phenotype prediction from gene expression data. BMC Bioinformatics 18:565
Horowitz, Jordan M; Kulkarni, Rahul V (2017) Stochastic gene expression conditioned on large deviations. Phys Biol 14:03LT01

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