Jarron Saint Onge co-authored article "Experimental and Clinical Psychopharmacology"
Reasons for Black-White disparities in smoking abstinence are not well understood. This study examined area-level socioeconomic disadvantage as a contributor to lower quit rates for Blacks who smoke among 223 Black and 221 White low-income individuals who smoke enrolled in a smoking cessation trial. Outcome was cotinine-verified abstinence at week 26. Census tract-level disadvantage was measured using 5-year estimates linked to participants' home address and included percentage of: female headed households; public assistance; unemployed; < 100% of the federal poverty level; and whether there was > 25% having less than a high school education. (Experimental and Clinical Psychopharmacology).