CAN-ADAPTT Seed Grant Opportunities
**The seed grant application period is now closed. Please see below for list of seed grant recipients and projects.**
Deadline: December 18, 2009 at 4:30 pm EASTERN
We invite collaborative, Canadian researcher-practioner teams committed to tobacco control to apply for CAN-ADAPTT's Seed Grant Competition. Awards of up to $5,000 are availble to facilitate the preparation of a scientific product in tobacco control research (ie, literature review, pilot study, funding proposal, a paper submission to peer-reviewed publications, an expert panel consensus statement, etc.). Collaborative teams can be based on pre-existing research-practice partnerships or newly formed teams. If you are a practitioner who has a research question arising from your experience/practice and would like to collaborate with a researcher to develop a seed grant proposal, please feel free to contact us and we will strive to facilitate the development of a collaborative partnership with one of our CAN-ADAPTT member researchers. The proposal could address the suggested topics below or another research questions, need, and/or gap in current practice guidelines identified by practitioners. For more information, please contact the coordinating centre.
This program will be of interest to:
Practitioners Decision-makers Investigators/Researchers Policy-makers
Healthcare/service providers (e.g. nurses, respiratory/occupational therapists, dentists, counsellors, etc....)
Suggested Topics:
- Counseling and psychosocial treatment (e.g., screening and assessment, treatment structure and intensity, treatment elements, etc.)
- Medications (e.g., first-line medications including bupropion, nicotine replacement therapy, varenicline; second-line medications including clonidine, nortriptyline; combination medications)
- Specific Populations (e.g., children and adolescents, light smokers, pregnant smokers, etc.)
- Population-level approaches to cessation (e.g., population-level interventions, mass media education, increasing unit price of tobacco, restricting access to tobacco, etc.)
- System-level approached to cessation (e.g., clinician/practitioner training, providing cessation treatment as a covered health benefit, etc.)
For further details on the suggested format for your proposal, contact our Coordinating Centre
Stephanie Elliott, Administrative Secretary
Tel: (416) 535-8501 x7427
Fax: (416) 599-8265
We are pleased to announce CAN-ADAPTT's Seed Grant recipients:
June 2009
Sean Barrett (NS) - "The effects of tobacco and nicotine on cigarette craving and self-administration in psychotic and non-psychotic smokers"
Julie Brûlé (Que) - "Smoking cessation counseling practices among Quebec optometrists: a survey on their beliefs, practices and needs in terms of training and educational tools"
Michael DeVillaer (ON) - "Survey of Ontario Addiction Treatment Programs"
John Garcia (ON) - "Practice-based evidence for evidence-informed smoking cessation interventions: A community-based approach to theory building, evaluation and capacity building"
2008
Cynthia Murray & Sandra Small (NL) - "The Experience of Smoking or Quitting Smoking for Pregnant Women"
The purpose of this research is to explore pregnant women’s experiences of smoking or quitting smoking during pregnancy in order to learn from their experiences. A close examination of these experiences may help explain why progress in the field of maternal smoking prevention and cessation has stalled. This qualitative research may point to new areas of intervention because interpretive phenomenological research can elucidate important, unaddressed aspects of a phenomenon (Lopez & Willis, 2004).
Kelly Arbour (ON) - "Translating research into practice: Lessons on integrating physical activity into smoking cessation counselling in women with severe mental illness"
This project will shed light on the role of practitioners and healthcare providers (e.g., nurses) in facilitating exercise into existing smoking cessation treatment for women with SMI. The project will provide knowledge regarding the feasibility of exercise as an adjunct treatment for smoking cessation for this population, avenues for recruitment, and potential barriers, all of which will be pivotal for the development of a fully-funded research proposal. These findings will inform tobacco control by providing research end-users with information on the feasibility of exercise as a harm-reduction strategy for an underserved population.
Ryan Kennedy (ON) - "Smoking Cessation Referrals and Optometrists -Assessing Practices and Opportunities in Canada"
Diminishing tobacco use is a public health priority. Optometrists have the opportunity to provide clear and consistent messages with other health care providers. Optometrists also have experience in delivering health messages including risk communication, which could in turn help inform other aspects of tobacco control – for instance the new Canadian Warning labels include a draft image of an eye with a message regarding blindness. This messaging could be influenced by this line of research. This project will lay the foundation for a new area of tobacco control research. In addition, this project marks the beginning of new research collaborative partners
Milan Khara (BC) - "Promoting smoking cessation among surgery patients: A pilot trial"
The Pre-Admission Clinic (PAC) at Vancouver General Hospital (VGH) assesses medical issues for all patients scheduled for planned surgery, screening an estimated 1500 smokers per year. Pre-surgical patients are currently recommended to abstain from smoking 12-hours prior to surgery. However, there is little evidence that patients are able to heed this advice or that post-surgical nicotine withdrawal management is executed by surgical staff. Providing no-cost nicotine replacement therapy (NRT) at the PAC for the 3-days prior to admission may increase clients’ adherence to abstain from smoking pre-operatively and could also improve withdrawal management by staff post-operatively. It is also plausible that smokers who experience a tobacco free period due to the provision of no-cost NRT may maintain post-surgical abstinence.