RESEARCH QUESTION

Ayaa Mahdi

HSCI 460

12/01/2020

DEVELOPMENT 1

Research Question

Do early intervention programs prevent smoking among teenagers who live in rural areas within the United States?

Introduction

Smoking cigarette is one of the main cause of premature morbidity and mortality in the US. Many of the smokers engage in the activity during their teenage period as they reveal their adolescence and majority of the teens have effectively engaged themselves on nicotine. Determinations and interventions to support smoking termination among youths is essential. The existing studies of teenage termination intervention realize that behavioral interventions increases the opportunities of teenage smokers attaining effective termination. Recently, there is no enough confirmation for the effectiveness of pharmacological cure with teenage smokers. Various researches have been conceded through problems in employing enough numbers of teens, getting authorization for waivers of parental agreement, and high attrition in longitudinal researches. Main sectors for future operations counts bridging the department development and cure design, matching cure to developmental trajectories of smoking behavior, effective comprehension cure procedures and cure moderators and constructing demand for confirmation based termination cure.

In addition, many of the smokers are the teenage residing in rural areas in the US. Intervention programs have been used in order to save the group from the risks associated with smoking. Intervention program is considered as one of the development that can be used to change the condition faced by teenage smokers. Detectives seeming can take the benefit of the care institution’s patient tracking determination. Much of the surprising that the vast majority of cure outcome paper label little concerning the determination made to retain their cohorts. Thus, it is hard it is hard to end the extent to which high rate of loss to follow-up in youths researched with effective retention strategies.

In this paper we will bases on the intervention programs in teens who smokers are counting in the implication for social work practice in enabling safe health and non-smokers in rural ears in the US. We will also discussion new opinions that could be integrated in termination of smoking in teens including mindfulness and resilience and assessment of commitment to the teens and recognition collectivist culture.

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