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Area of Science:

  • Public Health
  • Qualitative Research
  • Health Psychology

Background:

  • Understanding individual risk perception is crucial for effective public health interventions.
  • Smoking cessation strategies often overlook the personal meanings individuals ascribe to their habit.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To identify laypeople's dimensions for assessing smoking risk.
  • To compare laypeople's risk assessment with that of primary healthcare professionals.
  • To explore the influence of life experience on smoking risk perception.

Main Methods:

  • Qualitative study utilizing five focus groups.
  • Semantic-thematic categorical content analysis (ACC-ts) for data analysis.
  • Fieldwork conducted in Barcelona, Spain (February 2005 - January 2006).

Main Results:

  • Laypeople use stereotypical discourses and reassess smoking risks within their life experiences.
  • Smokers develop justifications for continuing the habit, incorporating factors like age and perceived benefits.
  • Health professionals acknowledge the multidimensional nature of smoking risk but simplify it in cessation intervention discourse.

Conclusions:

  • Laypeople's risk perception of smoking is deeply intertwined with personal life experiences and subjective meanings.
  • A gap exists between the complex, multidimensional understanding of smoking risk by individuals and the simplified discourse used by professionals in cessation interventions.
  • Health practices and risk communication strategies could be improved by incorporating a preliminary assessment of individuals' life contexts and their personal meanings attributed to smoking.