Register for email alerts and news feeds:
This journal | BMJ Group
rss
Tobacco Control 2000;9(Supplement 3 ):iii58-iii60; doi:10.1136/tc.9.suppl_3.iii58
Copyright © 2000 by the BMJ Publishing Group Ltd.
Tob Control 2000;9(Suppl 3):iii58-iii60 ( Autumn )

Smoke free families project brief

Healthy Baby Second-Hand Smoke Study: project brief

Karen M Emmonsa, Glorian Sorensena, Neil Klarb, Lisa Digiannib, Gillian Barclaya, Kaydee Schmidtc, S Katharine Hammondd

a Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, USA, b Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, c Boston Public Health Commission, Boston, d University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, California, USA

Correspondence to: Karen M Emmons, PhD, Harvard School of Public Health and the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Division of Community-Based Research, 44 Binney Street, Boston MA 02115USA; karen_emmons@dfci.harvard.edu

The first 150 words of the full text of this article appear below.

    Introduction

Although a number of studies have assessed differences in personal and interpersonal factors between smokers and non-smokers (for example, age, smoking during previous pregnancies, partner smoking status), there has been little attention to the social context in which women make decisions about prenatal health behaviours.1 For pregnant women who are poor, undereducated, and facing housing or economic crises, the immediate benefits provided by smoking may outweigh the long term risks of smoking during pregnancy. In order to improve the effectiveness of smoking interventions for pregnant women, it may be necessary to place smoking in the broader social context in which these women live, and integrate it into other programs that address basic life needs.

The Healthy Baby Second-Hand Smoke Study was a pilot program designed to evaluate the role of public health nurses in delivering a novel smoking intervention to limited income, high risk pregnant women. The Healthy Baby Program . . . [Full text of this article]
Add to CiteULike CiteULike   Add to Complore Complore   Add to Connotea Connotea   Add to Del.icio.us Del.icio.us   Add to Digg Digg   Add to Reddit Reddit   Add to Technorati Technorati    What's this?

This article has been cited by other articles:

  • Velasquez, M. M, Hecht, J., Quinn, V. P, Emmons, K. M, DiClemente, C. C, Dolan-Mullen, P. (2000). Application of motivational interviewing to prenatal smoking cessation: training and implementation issues. Tobacco Control 9: 36i-40 [Abstract] [Full Text]  
  • Ershoff, D. H, Solomon, L. J, Dolan-Mullen, P. (2000). Predictors of intentions to stop smoking early in prenatal care. Tobacco Control 9: 41i-45 [Abstract] [Full Text]  

This Article

Services
Citing Articles
Google Scholar
PubMed
Bookmark with

Register for free content

The full back archive is now available for all BMJ Journals. Institutional subscribers may access the entire archive as part of their subscription. Personal subscribers will also have access to all content when logged in. Non-subscribers who register have free access to all articles published before 2006 right back to volume 1 issue 1. Register here to access the free archive of all BMJ Journals.

Don't forget to sign up for content alerts so you keep up to date with all the articles as they are published.

BMJ Careers