Building Partnerships Between Kansas Comprehensive Cancer Control, NBCCEDP, Cancer Survivorship and Tobacco Use Prevention Programs to Increase Tobacco Cessation

Authors:

Julie Sergeant (Presenter)
Kansas Department of Health and Environment

Matthew Schrock, Kansas Department of Health and Environment
Cindy Bervert, Kansas Department of Health and Environment
Mickey Wu, Kansas Department of Health and Environment
Belle Federman, Kansas Department of Health and Environment
Cynthia Snyder, Kansas Department of Health and Environment

Public Health Statement: Women who smoke are about twice as likely as non-smokers to get cervical cancer; women with breast cancer who continue smoking are more likely to die from the disease. Tobacco use among cancer survivors is known to limit treatment effectiveness and increase the risk of complications. Self-reported tobacco use and not following cancer screening guidelines are higher among low income and uninsured Kansans.

Purpose: The purpose of this poster is to describe growth in the relationship between the Kansas NBCCEDP, Comprehensive Cancer Control, Cancer Survivorship and Tobacco Use Prevention programs. Participants will understand the contributions of the CDC and each programs’ structures, partners and activities to the development of activities that resulted in increased capacity to implement and evaluate health systems and community-clinical linkages approaches to tobacco cessation and cancer screening.

Methods/Approach: This poster will describe partner descriptions, common goals, data that identified common priority populations and common audiences for interventions, steps taken to strengthen evaluation and evaluation results to date. Basic activities and documentation of successes that led to increased synergy though complex health systems and community-clinincal interventions will also be described. Handouts with examples of health education materials will be provided.

Results: Participants will learn how evaluation of initial activities led to outcomes such as: 1) Changes in protocols for Kansas NBCCEDP refferals to Kansas Tobacco Quitline (KTQL); 2) Addition of questions about history of cancer diagnoses to the KTQL registration process to strengthen cancer survivorship program evaluation; 3) Alignment of cancer and tobacco coalitions’ state plan objectives; 4) Increased data capacity by adding a question from the CDC’s Health Care Access Optional Module to the Kansas BRFSS.

Conclusions/Implications: Conclusions and implications for future activities include: 1) Public health cancer and tobacco programs have similar goals and use approaches that focus on the same audiences. 2) The strategy of building on initial successes and bringing in partners from each programs’ networks over time can be used to develop collaborative relationships with other programs (e.g., Kansas Senior Farmers Market Nutrition Program). 3) Leveraging resources across programs expands the capacity and reach of health promotion, professional education, program evaluation and surveillance.