Baby be Smokefree
Research type
Research Study
Full title
Baby Be Smokefree: A development, pilot and evaluation of a specific intervention, designed from Insights (a method of holding anonymous conversations to discern the true nature of a situation) work with young pregnant women who are identified as smoking during pregnancy.
IRAS ID
198715
Contact name
Hilary Wareing
Contact email
Sponsor organisation
Tommy's
Duration of Study in the UK
1 years, 6 months, 1 days
Research summary
This is a Department of Health Innovation, Excellence and Strategic Development funded project to support new service development.
The aim of the project is to develop and evaluate the effectiveness of a stop smoking intervention targeted at young pregnant women who smoke during pregnancy.
Currently stop smoking services are not meeting the needs of this group evidenced by low referral rates and the high rate of young women who smoke during pregnancy.
Qualitative research (insights work) has been conducted to explore what helps and what hinders young women from stopping smoking in pregnancy and following the birth of their baby. It will explore why women do not use existing services, how those services and other forms of support could be improved and whether there are new forms of support that have the potential to be more effective than current practice.
Following the insights phase an enhanced intervention has been co-designed with partner organisations and women involved in phase 1 of the project.
The effectiveness of the enhanced intervention will be evaluated using qualitative and quantitative data.
The evaluation will include an audit of outcomes using routine anonymised data and qualitative information about experiences from both participants and staff. This will be compared with an audit of routine data and minimal qualitative information gathered from the control areas within Warwickshire and Cornwall.
REC name
West of Scotland REC 3
REC reference
16/WS/0026
Date of REC Opinion
23 Mar 2016
REC opinion
Further Information Favourable Opinion