{"id":21729,"date":"2017-01-25T11:14:35","date_gmt":"2017-01-25T16:14:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/52.229.127.56\/?p=21729\/"},"modified":"2021-02-17T10:48:54","modified_gmt":"2021-02-17T15:48:54","slug":"community-researchers-examine-how-to-help-ottawas-most-marginalized-quit-smoking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ottawahospital.on.ca\/en\/uncategorized\/community-researchers-examine-how-to-help-ottawas-most-marginalized-quit-smoking\/","title":{"rendered":"Community researchers examine how to help Ottawa\u2019s most marginalized quit smoking"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Community researchers like Kelly Florence and Tiffany Rose are collaborating with Dr. Smita Pakhale to find the best ways to help residents of Ottawa\u2019s inner city reduce the amount they smoke or stop smoking altogether.<\/em><\/p>\n

Dr. Smita Pakhale<\/a> wants to know what it would take for one of Ottawa\u2019s inner-city residents to quit smoking. Tobacco is the leading cause of preventable death, and about 96 percent of the city\u2019s most marginalized, including people who are homeless, insecurely housed or multi-drug users, are smokers.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is the toughest addiction, it\u2019s the king of addictions\u201d said Dr. Pakhale, a respirologist and associate scientist at The Ottawa Hospital. \u201cWhen you talk to these people, they really want to quit, and it\u2019s not the first time they\u2019ve tried.\u201d<\/p>\n

Dr. Pakhale, who is also an assistant professor at the University of Ottawa, realized she needed an insider\u2019s perspective to find the best way to deliver tobacco health care to this community. So with the help of trusted community members representative of the project\u2019s target population, the team developed a study to identify the barriers to quitting smoking and to uncover what kind of help would work the best.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs community researchers, we\u2019ve been able to engage right from the project\u2019s conception, and that was great,\u201d said Kelly Florence, a community researcher. \u201cThese aren\u2019t just study participants \u2013these are real-life people making real changes in their lives.\u201d<\/p>\n

Not only did the community researchers interact with participants as part of the study, but they also spent their evenings on Facebook or on the phone providing them with moral support. Sometimes participants would ask the community researchers to escort them past the cigarette dealers standing outside the doors of the research centre located behind the Shepherds of Good Hope.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s not in our job description, but if it makes it easier for them to come it\u2019s worth it,\u201d said community researcher Tiffany Rose.<\/p>\n

Rose also got to learn how to crunch the numbers she collected.  \u201cNow I can say I have the skills to enter data, clean data, and analyze it, and I didn\u2019t have that before,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

The preliminary results of the study are promising. They will be released in full once the team publishes them in a peer-reviewed journal.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019d like to thank everyone at The Ottawa Hospital who has gotten behind this program in our community,\u201d said Kelly. \u201cIt\u2019s a chance to see the good in people who are often perceived in a negative light.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Community researchers like Kelly Florence and Tiffany Rose are collaborating with Dr. Smita Pakhale to find the best ways to help residents of Ottawa\u2019s inner city reduce the amount they smoke or stop smoking altogether. Dr. Smita Pakhale wants to know what it would take for one of Ottawa\u2019s inner-city residents to quit smoking. Tobacco […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":21730,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21729","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"wps_subtitle":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ottawahospital.on.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21729","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ottawahospital.on.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ottawahospital.on.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ottawahospital.on.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ottawahospital.on.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21729"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ottawahospital.on.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21729\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ottawahospital.on.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21730"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ottawahospital.on.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ottawahospital.on.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ottawahospital.on.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}