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Developing and Pilot Testing a Culturally Appropriate Telephone-Based Smoking Cessation Program for American Indians
Despite reductions in smoking rates across populations in recent years, American Indians continue to smoke at the highest rates of all racial/ethnic groups in the United States. To address this disparity, an individual telephone-based version of the successful culturally appropriate All Nations Breath of Life smoking cessation program was developed and pilot tested using community-based…
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Paranormal Tourism and Belief in Ghosts and Hauntings in Atchison
The Most Haunted Town in Kansas Paranormal tourism is one way Americans confront questions of the afterlife and history. As a key source of revenue in some communities, paranormal tourism’s success often requires reformation of community identities and paranormal mythologies. Atchison, Kansas provides an example of this phenomenon by basing much of its economic development…
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Indigenous Paranormal and Supernatural Phenomena in Pennsylvania
Four Phenomena of Religious and Spiritual Significance in Indian Country Indigenous peoples and their traditions have long been influential on mainstream American society. Indigenous religious and spiritual traditions, in particular, have had significant impacts on popular belief in the paranormal and supernatural. For example, Indigenous phenomena such as skinwalkers and wendigos have become objects of…
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Development of a Tobacco Health Literacy Instrument for American Indians
Low health literacy, an established risk factor of poor health outcomes, may be applied to better understand individual health related decisions and actions. Health literacy can help explain why and how people make prevention and treatment choices and is particularly salient in developing interventions among populations experiencing health disparities. American Indians experience the highest smoking…
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Native Spiritualities and Identities as Influences on Mental Health in American Indian Communities in the Midwest
Spirituality and individual identity are necessary factors to fully understand physical and mental health outcomes in many communities. However, limited research has been conducted to assess the impacts of these constructs within American Indian communities despite rampant health disparities. To begin addressing this gap, a cross-sectional survey (N=968) was conducted in urban and reservation communities…