Short and Long Term Health Effects of Parental Tobacco Smoking
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Short and Long Term Health Effects of Parental Tobacco Smoking
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Running head: RESEARCH PLAN1Research PlanName:Institution Affiliation:
RESEARCH PLAN2Introduction Smoking while pregnant is amongst the leading cause to the high maternal and infant mortality rate in Sydney. Moreover, it is the primary cause to the abnormal birth weight and the health disorders among the babies. In Australia, tobacco smoking incidents among aboriginal residents has been consistently higher in comparison to their non-aboriginal peers (Gould et al., 2013). According the author, females in the reproductive phase are increasingly susceptible to more detrimental effects from smoking when they get become pregnant (Ploit and Beck, 2017, p.544). In Australia, smoking is regarded to be the leading risk factor for expectant women and newborn children (Gould et al., 2017). Smoking women often give birth to children who have long-standing deleterious effects even when they become adults, therefore the aim of this research plan aims to address on the experiences and perceptions towards smoking of the indigenous women on the Acute Inpatient Psychiatric unit in Sydney South West Local health District , New South Wales.Objective The objective of the research is to provide knowledge to the pregnant women to enable them acquire more knowledge and develop motivation to integrate it into their behavior (Ploit and Beck, 2017, p.544). Thus, this research would help to verify the knowledge acquired in order to understand how pregnant women in less advantaged socioeconomic backgrounds from New South Wales differ from women from high socioeconomic background in their perceptions towards smoking during pregnancy.Research questionThe research question for this research study is as follows;
RESEARCH PLAN31.What are the perceptions and experiences of the indigenous women of the Acute Adult Psychiatric Inpatient Unit in Sydney South West Area Mental Health Service facility towards smoking during their pregnancy?Qualitative designThe study with utilize phenomenological design of qualitative research. This means that lived experience of the less advantaged women from New South Wales would be used to create themes (Coleman et al 2015). The use of a phenomenological design of qualitative approach would be appropriate for such exploratory research as it allowed the identification of their representations from the discourse of the first concerned (Coleman et al 2015). The women would be interviewed through semi-directed interviews during which they would be free to express themselves. The context of maternity supervision would be also addressed through groupinterviews with caregivers working with prenatal clients (Coleman et al 2015). Although such anapproach has no claim to statistical representativeness, it does offer key elements for understanding a problem such as smoking during pregnancy.Study variablesThis research study will focus on the relevant variables such as the level of income, educational back ground, drug abuse history, family dynamic history, childhood experiences, and obviously the Mental illness (Cheng et al 2015, p. 356). In this research the study variables which would bemeasured are the aboriginal women experiences on smoking and perceptions of the aboriginal women towards smoking. On the first study variable is on the experiences of the aboriginal women which would measure aspects on the motivator which could prompt these women to stop smoking bit there are issues which hinders them to do so (Tong et al 2015). Thus, in this researchit would identify what are their experiences which could hinder them to quit on smoking. There
RESEARCH PLAN4are barriers which would be discussed are smoking dependency, stress, living in the smoking environment, and the lack to the social support to quit (Small, Porr, Swab & Murray, 2018). These aspects would be explored in the details within the research study. On the second variable,it is based on the perceptions of the aboriginal women. The perception is in regards to how the women feel and their varied preferences to smoke particularly during pregnancy. Study populationThe study population for this research is the indigenous women with existing mental illness of anAcute Psychiatric Adult inpatient unit who has history of poly-substance abuse and addiction to smoking along with past experience of pregnancy. As per the research question the focused group of population is the indigenous women with experience of pregnancy who are habituated to the smoking would be enlisted.Eligibility criteriaThe participant who are included in this would include 10 women who were smoking are age. The resultant collection of the studies which are used in this research would comprise both randomized trials and nonrandomized studies of aboriginal women who were smoking during pregnancy. In this research it utilizes various eligibility criteria which show the targeted population as the aboriginal women living in Sydney. On this research the language used in the research is English and the time frame to undertake on this research would be within 7 months until the final research has been done. Study sample
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