Researchers

The AAP Richmond Center's Measurement Core project aims to ensure consistency in the methodologies utilized across the different research projects at the Center. The Measurement Core team reviewed multiple sources of questions on secondhand smoke (SHS) exposure, and came up with a standardized set of questions in order to help advance the field of SHS research. These questions can be used for any audience including adults, children, and families.

AAP Richmond Center investigators are currently working on validating many of these survey items against a variety of biomarkers of SHS exposure in children including urine cotinine, NNAL, and others. These results will be posted as they become available.

When referring to these items, please use the following citation: Surveys, Questionnaires, and Assessment Tools. American Academy of Pediatrics Julius B Richmond Center of Excellence Web site. http://www.aap.org/richmondcenter/Researchers.html. Accessed DATE.

Those measures are presented here, to assist other tobacco control researchers in their work. Sources of each measure are listed on each categorical page, or can be viewed all together.

View the measures by category:

• SHS Exposure and Use
• Attitude and Knowledge
• Demographics
• Other

• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Smoking and Health Resource Library
  The CDC, through its Office on Smoking and Health, maintains a comprehensive database of materials related to tobacco, including reports, dissertations, books, journal articles, and policy documents.
• Cochrane Reviews by topic "Tobacco Addiction"
  The Cochrane Library explores the evidence for and against the effectiveness and appropriateness of treatments (medications, surgery, education, etc) in specific circumstances.
• Legacy Tobacco Documents Library
  Maintained by the University of California at San Francisco, The Legacy Tobacco Documents Library contains more than 11 million documents created by major tobacco companies related to their advertising, manufacturing, marketing, sales, and scientific research activities.
• Social Climate Survey of Tobacco Control (SCS-TC)
  The SCS-TC objectively measures the position of tobacco control in society. The data query feature allows you to gather national information on smoking cessation, mass communication, culture, and other areas.
• Tobacco Charts
  These charts provide illustration of the changes states have experienced after raising their state cigarette taxes or passing statewide smoke-free laws.
• Tobacco Research Network on Disparities
  The Tobacco Research Network on Disparities (TReND) is a network created by the National Cancer Institute and the American Legacy Foundation in recognition of the need to progress scientific evidence toward reducing tobacco-related health disparities.

• Tobacco Biomarkers Core: UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center
  This lab, at the University of California San Francisco, provides services to measure tobacco exposure biomarkers and selected carcinogen biomarkers in biological samples.

• Ambulatory Pediatrics Association Pediatric Tobacco Issues Special Interest Group (The Cig SIG)
  The Cig SIG's mission is to bring members and friends of the Ambulatory Pediatrics Association together for networking, discussion of research and funding opportunities, education, health care delivery, public policy, and advocacy related to pediatric tobacco control.
• Addressing Tobacco in Healthcare (ATHC)
  The ATHC, supported by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, connects researchers, health care, providers, and other partners interested in developing changes to health care systems that will improve the delivery of evidence-based tobacco dependence treatment.
• Bloomberg Foundation
  A global program to reduce tobacco use in low- and middle-income countries was launched in 2006 with funds from Bloomberg Philanthropies. A competitive grant program supports projects to develop and deliver high-impact tobacco control interventions.
• Flight Attendant Medical Research Institute (FAMRI)
  FAMRI's mission is to sponsor scientific and medical research for the early detection, prevention, treatment, and cure of diseases and medical conditions caused from exposure to tobacco smoke.
• Funding Opportunities through the AAP Richmond Center
  The AAP Richmond Center offers four types of funding opportunities for researchers seeking funding for work related to protecting children from tobacco and secondhand smoke exposure.
• Global Tobacco Research Network
  The Global Tobacco Research Network's mission is to enhance research by promoting collaboration and partnerships, providing information, facilitating training, and sharing research tools with the goal of reducing the burden of disease and death caused by tobacco.
• Institute for Global Tobacco Control
  Established in 1998 in the Department of Epidemiology at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, the Institute for Global Tobacco Control works to prevent death and disease from tobacco use through research, education, and policy development.
• The International Tobacco Control Policy Evaluation Project (ITC Project)
  The ITC Project is an international collaboration of tobacco control researchers whose mission is to evaluate the psychosocial and behavioral effects of national-level tobacco control policies.
• National Cancer Institute (NCI) Tobacco Control Research Branch
  The NCI's Tobacco Control Research Branch offers information about funding through its various programs, and general information for researchers, including research networks.
• Union for International Cancer Control (UICC)
  The UICC is the leading international non-governmental organization dedicated exclusively to the global control of cancer.
• Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco (SRNT)
  This Web site provides information on the latest research, abstracts, publications and events related to nicotine and tobacco.