Mimi Nichter
University of Arizona, Anthropology, Faculty Member
- I am a sociocultural and medical anthropologist who has worked in South and Southeast Asia, Turkey, and the United St... moreI am a sociocultural and medical anthropologist who has worked in South and Southeast Asia, Turkey, and the United States. My main areas of research have been on tobacco-related issues and women and the body. In addition to the articles below, I've written two books: Lighting Up: The Rise of Social Smoking among College Students (NYU Press, 2015) and Fat Talk: What Girls and their Parents Say about Dieting (Harvard University Press 2000). I am currently working on a book on social media use among college students.edit
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Las mujeres y el tabaco: de la polıtica a la accio´ n Virginia Ernster,1 Nancy Kaufman,2 Mimi Nichter,3 Jonathan Samet4 y Soon-Young Yoon5 ... Los discos compactos, con interpre-taciones de artistas noveles femeninas, se comercia-lizan... more
Las mujeres y el tabaco: de la polıtica a la accio´ n Virginia Ernster,1 Nancy Kaufman,2 Mimi Nichter,3 Jonathan Samet4 y Soon-Young Yoon5 ... Los discos compactos, con interpre-taciones de artistas noveles femeninas, se comercia-lizan junto con paquetes de Virginia Slims. ...
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Objectives: The purpose of the study was to characterize practice patterns and tobacco cessation training for three types of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) practitioners (acupuncture/Traditional Chinese Medicine [TCM],... more
Objectives: The purpose of the study was to characterize practice patterns and tobacco cessation training for three types of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) practitioners (acupuncture/Traditional Chinese Medicine [TCM], chiropractic, and massage). Methods: Researchers administered a mail survey to all licensed acupuncturist, chiropractors, and massage therapists in Tucson, Arizona. N=356 practitioners responded (acupuncturists, n=63, chiropractors, n=56, massage therapists, n=237). Results: Most respondents practice more than one CAM modality (mean 2.6, SD 1.9) with acupuncturists practicing 4.8 (SD 1.9), chiropractors, 2.9 (SD 1.9) and massage therapists, 2.0 (SD 1.4). For example, over 50% of acupuncturists report using herbs, energy therapies, and nutritional counseling in practice. When asked if they had training in tobacco cessation, 64.5% report none. Respondents who report training, 19.9% had professional training (73% acupuncturists, 18% chiropractors, 7% massag...
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... use of the pill appeared to be related to 1) the delaying of a final decision about family ... can she manage to purchase milk or formula for her baby?" Another reason for not using pills while ... Women often start taking their... more
... use of the pill appeared to be related to 1) the delaying of a final decision about family ... can she manage to purchase milk or formula for her baby?" Another reason for not using pills while ... Women often start taking their pills on the wrong date, forgot to take them for a few days or ...
Background: Lay health advisors may play an important role in community-based tobacco cessation by providing advice and information about resources and support networks. Little is known about their experiences conducting brief cessation... more
Background: Lay health advisors may play an important role in community-based tobacco cessation by providing advice and information about resources and support networks. Little is known about their experiences conducting brief cessation interventions in diverse, real world settings. Objective: To examine the intervention activities of community members trained to conduct brief cessation interventions. Methods: Six-week follow-up interviews were completed by 81 participants of a large-scale, randomized controlled trial which compared methods of training community members to conduct brief tobacco cessation interventions. Semi-structured interviews were conducted between February 2005 and January 2006. Interview questions addressed characteristics and reactions to recent brief intervention experiences. All interviews were tape-recorded, transcribed, and coded using Atlas.ti 5.0. Results: Although some participants indicated that they used similar approaches with all smokers, the majori...
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Research Interests: Health Promotion, Focus Groups, Health Care, Health Education, Indonesia, and 15 moreBeliefs, Family Practice, Humans, Male, Physicians, Attitudes, Risk factors, Aged, Prevalence, Middle Aged, Questionnaires, Public health systems and services research, Diabetes complications, Risk Factors, and Cross Sectional Studies
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Research Interests: Poverty, Qualitative Health Research, Qualitative Research, Adolescent, Harm Reduction, and 13 morePregnancy, Humans, Smoking Cessation, Smoking, Weight Loss, Female, Adult, Breast feeding, Human Milk, Psychology and Cognitive Sciences, postpartum period, Tobacco use disorder, and Medical and Health Sciences
ICHTER ANTHROPOLOGY AND INTERNATIONAL HEALTH ith Asian studies the language of science ... ANTHROPOLOGY AND INTERNATIONAL HEALTH This One E7LB-3R6-5PX2 ... CULTURE, ILLNESS, AND HEALING Editors: MARGARET LOCK Departments of ...
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Research Interests: Education, Participatory Research, Mobile Learning, Nutrition, Focus Groups, and 15 moreHealth Education, Life Style, Food and Nutrition, Adolescent Health, Mobile Phones, Adolescent, Community Based Participatory Research, Humans, Child, Arizona, Female, Male, Adolescents, Adolescent Behavior, and Medical and Health Sciences
Interventions tailored to individual smoker characteristics have increasingly received attention in the tobacco control literature. The majority of tailored interventions are generated by computers and administered with printed materials... more
Interventions tailored to individual smoker characteristics have increasingly received attention in the tobacco control literature. The majority of tailored interventions are generated by computers and administered with printed materials or web-based programs. The purpose of this study was to examine the tailoring activities of community lay health influencers who were trained to perform face-to-face brief tobacco cessation interventions. Eighty participants of a large-scale, randomized controlled trial completed a 6-week qualitative follow-up interview. A majority of participants (86%) reported that they made adjustments in their intervention behaviors based on individual smoker characteristics, their relationship with the smoker, and/or setting. Situational contexts (i.e., location and timing) primarily played a role after targeted smokers were selected. The findings suggest that lay health influencers benefit from a training curriculum that emphasizes a motivational, person-cente...
Research Interests: Education, Health Promotion, Qualitative Research, Community Health Workers, Interviews, and 15 moreHumans, Smoking Cessation, Program Development, Arizona, Role, Intervention, Female, Male, Young Adult, Follow-up studies, Aged, Middle Aged, Adult, Psychology and Cognitive Sciences, and Medical and Health Sciences
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Objective: To conduct formative research among smokers of different socio-economic statuses in Yogyakarta to identify perceptions of risk which link smoking to lung diseases and TB incidence/ relapse. Further, we wanted to assess... more
Objective: To conduct formative research among smokers of different socio-economic statuses in Yogyakarta to identify perceptions of risk which link smoking to lung diseases and TB incidence/ relapse. Further, we wanted to assess knowledge of the harm of smoking ...
Adolescence represents a uniquephase of the life span, a timemarkedby significant physical, emotional, andcognitivechanges. Itisatransitionalperiod, whenonemoves awayfromthedependentyearsofchildhoodtothethresholdofemergingadulthood.