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Thesis
Can the Transtheoretical Model Be Applied to Smoking Cessation Interventions With Pregnant Women?
Washington State University
Master of Nursing (MN), Washington State University
09/1999
Handle:
https://hdl.handle.net/2376/4014
Abstract
Smoking during pregnancy significantly increases health risks for both the woman and her fetus and causes 20% to 30% of the low birthweight rate and 10% of the infant mortality rate in the United States. Although there has been a decline in overall smoking prevalence in recent years, and an increasing tendency for women to quit smoking during pregnancy, 20% to 25% of pregnant women in this country still do smoke throughout their pregnancy. Smoking cessation interventions based on the Transtheoretical Model and matched to the smoker's stages of change have shown effectiveness in clinical studies with other diverse popUlations, but have not been widely studied with pregnant smokers. The purpose of my investigative paper is to discover what smoking cessation interventions have been utilized with pregnant women, and to determine if the Transtheoretical Model could be effectively applied to them.
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- Title
- Can the Transtheoretical Model Be Applied to Smoking Cessation Interventions With Pregnant Women?
- Creators
- Melinda C. Elledge
- Contributors
- Gail Synoground (Advisor)
- Awarding Institution
- Washington State University
- Academic Unit
- Research Projects, College of Nursing
- Theses and Dissertations
- Master of Nursing (MN), Washington State University
- Publisher
- Washington State University; Spokane, Washington
- Identifiers
- 99900590727601842
- Copyright
- http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/us; Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 United States (CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 US)
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Thesis