Delivering Tobacco Cessation Through Community Health Workers: Curriculum and Training Considerations. Academic Article

abstract

• Texas faces unique barriers in health status and risk behaviors such as smoking. To address tobacco use, community health workers (CHWs) are a resource for disseminating education among a population. To promote smoking cessation in Texas, there is a need for the development of a smoking cessation training program for CHWs. The National Community Health Worker Training Center used an approach with CHWs to develop a curriculum. From the curriculum development and with feedback from CHWs, 4 training courses were produced: online and in person, and in English and Spanish. The curriculum meets a need that disseminates smoking cessation strategies through peer-led, culturally relevant messages.

authors

• Garney, Whitney

published proceedings

• Fam Community Health

altmetric score

• 1

author list (cited authors)

• Lautner, S., Garney, W., Nimmons, K., Macareno, B., Harvey, I. S., & Garcia, K.

citation count

• 5

complete list of authors

• Lautner, Shelby||Garney, Whitney||Nimmons, Katherine||Macareno, Blanca||Harvey, Idethia Shevon||Garcia, Kristen

publication date

• January 2017

publisher

• Wolters Kluwer  Publisher

published in

• Family and Community Health  Journal

keywords

• Community Health Workers
• Curriculum
• Humans
• Tobacco Use Cessation

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

• 10.1097/FCH.0000000000000227

start page

• 197

end page

• 202

volume

• 42

issue

• 3

user-defined tag

• 3 Good Health and Well-Being