Toward an Intergenerational Model for Tobacco-Focused CBPR: Integrating Youth Perspectives via Photovoice

• DOI: 10.1177/1524839918759526
• Publication Date: 2018-03-08T06:10:35Z
• Authors: Ryan J. Petteway; Payam Sheikhattari; Fernando Wagner
• Keywords: Photovoice; Community-Based Participatory Research; Community Engagement; Community Health

The growing prominence of community-based participatory research (CBPR) presents as an opportunity to improve tobacco-related intervention efforts. CBPR collaborations for tobacco/health, however, typically engage only adults, thus affording a partial understanding community context related tobacco. This is problematic given evidence around age tobacco use initiation and the influence local environments on youth. CEASE Resist youth photovoice project was developed part Communities Engaged Advocating Smoke-free Environment (CEASE) collaboration in Southwest Baltimore. With broader initiative focused adult smoking cessation, had three aims: (1) elucidate how from high-tobacco-burden perceive/interact with their environment, (2) train active change agents health, (3) intergenerational understandings use/impacts within community. Fourteen were recruited schools trained photography ethics/guiding principles. Youth met at regular intervals discuss narrate photos. article provides overview what work revealed/achieved discusses including traditionally adult-focused can facilitate sustainable action health.