A systematic review of interventions to increase the use of smoking cessation services for women who smoke during pregnancy.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Although many pregnant women accept referrals to stop-smoking support, the uptake of appointments often remains low.

Aim

The aim was to review the success of interventions to increase the uptake of external stop-smoking appointments following health professional referrals in pregnancy.

Materials and methods

Embase, PubMed, Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials, Scopus and CINAHL were searched in February 2023 for studies with interventions to increase the uptake rates of external stop-smoking appointments among pregnant women who smoke. Eligible studies included randomised, controlled, cluster-randomised, quasi-randomised, before-and-after, interrupted time series, case-control and cohort studies. Cochrane tools assessing for bias and Preferred Rep

SUBMITTER: Bailey C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10952730 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature