The Use of Tobacco and Related Substances by Ethnic Minorities: the Development of a Culturally Valid Measure (The University of Edinburgh, 2004)
- The developed questionnaires require further proof reading to ensure accuracy and consistency of spelling before widespread use.
- The current questionnaires should be professionally typeset.
- Having gained experience in the methods required to ensure cross-cultural acceptability and validity of tobacco-related questions, subsequent work could expand the existing questionnaire to focus on other health-related behaviours and include attitudinal questions and demographic data.
- Insights gained from this project will be transferable to other areas of health research.
- In the immediate future we have the intention to seek further funding to conduct studies of criterion validity and reliability on the four questionnaires. This work will also incorporate formatting of the questionnaire and the production of a culturally appropriate introduction to each language version. It is hoped that this project will begin early in 2005.