Article ; Online: "If the social circle is engaged, more pregnant women will successfully quit smoking": a qualitative study of the experiences of midwives in the Netherlands with smoking cessation care.
2022 Volume 22, Issue 1, Page(s) 1106
Abstract: Background: If smoking is common within a pregnant woman's social circle, she is more likely to smoke and her chances of succeeding in quitting smoking are reduced. It is therefore important to encourage smoking cessation in a pregnant woman's social ... ...
| Abstract | Background: If smoking is common within a pregnant woman's social circle, she is more likely to smoke and her chances of succeeding in quitting smoking are reduced. It is therefore important to encourage smoking cessation in a pregnant woman's social circle. Midwives are ideally positioned to help pregnant women and members of their social circle quit smoking but there is currently little knowledge about if and how midwives approach smoking cessation with pregnant women's social circles. Methods: In 2017 and 2018, semi-structured interviews were conducted with 14 birth care providers in the Netherlands. Interviews were inductively coded; data were analyzed thematically. Results: In the interviews, midwives reported that they don't commonly provide smoking cessation support to members of pregnant women's social circles. The respondents noted that they primarily focused on mothers and weren't always convinced that advising the partners, family, and friends of pregnant women to quit smoking was their responsibility. Data from the interviews revealed that barriers to giving advice to the social circle included a lack of a trusting relationship with the social circle, concerns about raising the topic and giving unwanted advice on cessation to members of the social circle and a lack of opportunity to discuss smoking. Conclusions: Midwives in the Netherlands were reluctant to actively provide smoking cessation advice to the social circle of pregnant women. To overcome barriers to addressing cessation to the social circle, educational programs or new modules for existing programs could be used to improve skills related to discussing smoking. Clear guidelines and protocols on the role of midwives in providing cessation support to the social circle could help midwives overcome ambivalence that they might have. |
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| MeSH term(s) | Female ; Humans ; Midwifery ; Netherlands ; Pregnancy ; Pregnant Women ; Qualitative Research ; Smoking Cessation/methods |
| Language | English |
| Publishing date | 2022-08-31 |
| Publishing country | England |
| Document type | Journal Article |
| ZDB-ID | 2050434-2 |
| ISSN | 1472-6963 ; 1472-6963 |
| ISSN (online) | 1472-6963 |
| ISSN | 1472-6963 |
| DOI | 10.1186/s12913-022-08472-7 |
| Database | MEDical Literature Analysis and Retrieval System OnLINE |
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