Smoking cessation intervention for disadvantaged pregnant women : final technical report to RITC
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2008
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South African Medical Research Council (MRC South Africa), Cape Town, ZA
Abstract
The development of this smoking cessation intervention integrated research findings of the formative research, as well as international, evidence-based best practice interventions for smoking cessation among pregnant women, along with behavioural change theory. The smoking cessation rates of 450 pregnant smokers exposed to the intervention were compared to the cessation rates of a comparison group of another 450 women, who received usual care at the same clinics the year before. The difference between the two groups was 11.7% (95%CI: 5.0% - 18.4%).
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HEALTH INTERVENTION, SMOKING CESSATION, PREGNANT WOMEN, SOCIALLY DISADVANTAGED PERSONS, SMOKING PREVALENCE, WOMEN’S HEALTH, MATERNAL AND CHILD HEALTH, GIRLS, SOUTH AFRICA, SOUTH OF SAHARA