My Baby Comes Smoke Free - supporting young mothers to quit smoking.
Research type
Research Study
Full title
My Baby Comes Smoke Free. An exploration of the mechanism of action of incentives use for smoking cessation in adolescent pregnant women - a feasibility study.
IRAS ID
214247
Contact name
Diane Henty
Contact email
Sponsor organisation
Family Nurse Partnership National Unit
Duration of Study in the UK
1 years, 6 months, 30 days
Research summary
In the UK, smoking in pregnancy causes up to 2200 premature births anually, 5000 miscarriages and 300 perinatal deaths. Mothers under the age of 20 are nearly four times as likely to smoke before or during pregnancy than older mothers. Young mothers are also less likely to quit. NICE guidance has recognised the value of incentives schemes as an aid to quitting smoking in pregnancy, but there has not been any studies that specifically evaluate their use in adolescent pregnant women.
The study design will be an evaluation to explore the acceptability of the intervention (use of reward vouchers) to participants and healthcare professionals (family nurses and quitters facilitators). Participants will be asked to attend a Smokestop clinic to participate in a quitters programme where reward vouchers will be issued when non-smoking status has been verified by carbon monoxide (CO) monitoring. Attendance will be from pregnancy until 6 weeks postnatally. Participants can invite a 'significant other' to attend with them, who will also be receive a reward voucher if the participant is successful.
There will be two phases to the data collection. First the number of participants who attended Smokestop; number of mothers who quit smoking and number who received reward vouchers will be captured from routing clinic data. Secondly, semi-structured interviews will be undertaken to seek the views of the young women themselves and healthcare professionals involved in the study.
The study will report on whether the intervention worked, how it worked and the conditions needed for it to work. Quanttiative data will report on percentage of mothers who quit smoking and remained quit by 36 weeks of pregnancy. Qualitative analysis of the interview data will provide insight into participant's perpectives of the incentive scheme with regard to advantages and disadvantages to themselves and any practical facilitators or barriers.REC name
South Central - Hampshire B Research Ethics Committee
REC reference
16/SC/0619
Date of REC Opinion
12 Jan 2017
REC opinion
Further Information Favourable Opinion