Benefits of not smoking during pregnancy for Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women and their babies: a retrospective cohort study using linked data.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To provide evidence for targeted smoking cessation policy, the aim of this study was to compare pregnancy outcomes of Aboriginal mothers who reported not smoking during pregnancy with Aboriginal mothers who reported smoking during pregnancy.

Design

Population based retrospective cohort study using linked data.

Setting

New South Wales, the most populous Australian state.

Population

18 154 singleton babies born to 13 477 Aboriginal mothers between 2010 and 2014 were identified from routinely collected New South Wales datasets. Aboriginality was determined from birth records and from four linked datasets through an Enhanced Reporting of Aboriginality algorithm.

Exposure

Not smoking at any time during pregnancy.

Main outcome measu

SUBMITTER: McInerney C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6887048 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature