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Smoking Cessation During Pregnancy.

Compare the content - pharmacological vs behavioural: Just as a drug trial needs to know the ingredients of it's medicines - so too should a psycho-socio-behavioural trial know the content of it's intervention... Behaviour Change Technique (BCT) Taxonomies can help to identify and build content Reward beh. As we go through - think of an intervention that you have been involved in or thinking of developing... An action or activity that aims to get an individual, community or population to behave differently from how they would have acted without such an intervention Information

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Smoking Cessation During Pregnancy.

Compare the content - pharmacological vs behavioural: Just as a drug trial needs to know the ingredients of it's medicines - so too should a psycho-socio-behavioural trial know the content of it's intervention... Behaviour Change Technique (BCT) Taxonomies can help to identify and build content Reward beh. As we go through - think of an intervention that you have been involved in or thinking of developing... An action or activity that aims to get an individual, community or population to behave differently from how they would have acted without such an intervention Information

   Added on 2022-08-21

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Smoking Cessation
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Smoking Cessation During Pregnancy._1
Background & Aims
Cigarette smoke contains several thousands of chemical includes some very hazardous
compounds such as Nicotine, Cyanide, Lead, Carbon monoxide and other carcinogens
(Quinn et al., 2017).
When smoked during pregnancy, several complications in the infant can be observed,
which includes:
1. 20-30 % of incidence of low-birth weight
2. 14% of preterm deliveries
3. 10% of infant deaths
Smoking Cessation During Pregnancy._2
Continued...
Maternal smoking has shown increased risk of asthma in the infants.
The aim of this intervention project is to induce smoking cessation habits in the mothers,
which will subsequently reduce the risk of relevant complications in the infant.
Smoking during pregnancy has been reported to increase the risk of SIDS- Sudden Infant
Death SYndrome
Smoking Cessation During Pregnancy._3
Intervention Design
Pharmacotherapies along with support from health care systems and other technical
providers of health are promising strategies to help the pregnant women quit smoking.
However, to increase the efficiency in achieving possible results, interventions that are
focussed on the lowest levels of the community, that is, targeting individuals rather than
cohorts, needs to be ensured.
Individual behaviour counselling is one of the most promising and effective strategy to
ensure smoking cessation in pregnant women.
Smoking Cessation During Pregnancy._4

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