NIH R01 · 2025
#4Corners4Health: A Social Media Cancer Prevention Program for Rural Emerging Adults
Several risk factors are prevalent during early adulthood that can lead to chronic disease and cancer later in life. Emerging adults (EAs) aged 18-26 residing in rural areas of the United States engage in many cancer risk behaviors, especially sedentary lifestyles, poor eating patterns, nicotine product use, excess alcohol intake, infrequent sun protection, and decisions not to practice prevention for human papillomavirus. This application responds to RFA-CA-20-051, “Social and Behavioral Intervention Research to Address Modifiable Risk Factors for Cancer in Rural Populations.” The goal is to improve cancer risk behavioral factors among a sample of individual EAs aged 18-26 living in rural…
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