Accessing specialist support to stop smoking in pregnancy: A qualitative study exploring engagement with UK-based stop smoking services.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

Specialist stop smoking services can be effective for supporting women with smoking cessation during pregnancy, but uptake of these services is low. A novel theoretical approach was used for this research, aiming to identify barriers to and facilitators of engaging with specialist smoking cessation support using the Theoretical Domains Framework (TDF).

Methods

Semi-structured interviews and a focus group (n = 28) were carried out with pregnant women who smoke/recently quit smoking, midwives and Stop Smoking in Pregnancy advisors from two local authority commissioned services in the UK. Inductive thematic analysis was used to code interview transcripts and deductive thematic analysis used to match emerging themes to TDF domains.

Results

Themes corresponded t

SUBMITTER: Griffiths SE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9542141 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature