RESEARCH STARTS WITH STORIES
We have talked with hundreds of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people on Gumbaynggirr Country and across Australia, including health professionals, services and policy makers to develop the approaches that we co-designed to tackle smoking over the last 17 years.
From those stories we were hearing from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander mums that they want to quit smoking, but just don’t get enough help.
We were also hearing from health professionals that although 100% of them said smoking in pregnancy is vitally important, they did not have the confidence, skills or optimism to have that chat.
So here was a gap. And 75% health professionals also told us that training would help that.
THE iSISTAQUIT JOURNEY
iSISTAQUIT started off as ICAN QUIT in Pregnancy which we codesigned with Biripi and Tobwabba Aboriginal Medical Services and pre-tested the educational resources in three services in three states. We then ran a pilot study testing the feasibility, acceptability, and effectiveness of the training in six services in three states.
Then the Department of Health asked us to implement the training further, and iSISTAQUIT was taken up by 40 health services across Australia.
The program's current phase, “iSISTAQUIT Ngurrajili” will be scaled up into another 50 health services, which we invite all Aboriginal and mainstream health services to take up.
PHASE 1 ICAN QUIT IN PREGNANCY
- Co-design and pretested materials in 3 AMS in 3 states
- Sustainability of materials
PHASE 3 SISTAQUIT
- Clinical trial in 21 services in 5 states
- Effectiveness (intervention vs usual care)
PHASE 5 iSISTAQUIT NGURRAJILI
- National scale up
- Optimal implementation strategy
PHASE 2 ICAN QUIT IN PREGNANCY
- Pilot in 6 services 3 states
- Feasibility, acceptability, effectiveness
PHASE 4 iSISTAQUIT IMPLEMENTATION
- 40 services nationwide
- Comparison of context
BECOME AN iSISTAQUIT PARTNER
iSISTAQUIT VALUES
- Working from strengths
- Developing relationships
- Upholding cultural safety
- Non-judgmental approaches
- Openness, honesty, hope and trust
- Fostering choice and self-motivation
- Being consistent and persistent
- Celebrating small achievements and positive changes
ABCD model
smoking
to quit
Behaviour Change Techniques (BCT) & Nicotine Replacement Therapy (NRT)
family, social and cultural context
iSISTAQUIT GOVERNANCE
