Trial reportTobacco control2006
A group randomised trial of two methods for disseminating a smoking cessation programme to public antenatal clinics: effects on patient outcomes.
Trial report in Tobacco control, 2006. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 14 papers, 7 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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14 citing papers in PubMed, 7 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Audit and feedback: effects on professional practice.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2025Pooled it
- Identifying behaviour change techniques in 287 randomized controlled trials of audit and feedback interventions targeting practice change among healthcare professionals.Implementation science : IS · 2023Pooled it
- Psychosocial interventions for supporting women to stop smoking in pregnancy.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2017Pooled it
- System change interventions for smoking cessation.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2017Pooled it
- Psychosocial interventions for supporting women to stop smoking in pregnancy.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2013Pooled it
- Audit and feedback: effects on professional practice and healthcare outcomes.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2012Pooled it
- Interventions for promoting smoking cessation during pregnancy.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2009Pooled it
- The Breathing for Life Trial: a randomised controlled trial of fractional exhaled nitric oxide (FENO)-based management of asthma during pregnancy and its impact on perinatal outcomes and infant and childhood respiratory health.BMC pregnancy and childbirth · 2016Trial
- Evaluation of the 'healthy start to pregnancy' early antenatal health promotion workshop: a randomized controlled trial.BMC pregnancy and childbirth · 2012Trial
- Barriers and enablers to addressing smoking, nutrition, alcohol consumption, physical activity and gestational weight gain (SNAP-W) as part of antenatal care: A mixed methods systematic review.Implementation science communications · 2024Review
- The effectiveness of implementation strategies in improving preconception and antenatal preventive care: a systematic review.Implementation science communications · 2022Review
- Provision of antenatal smoking cessation support: a survey with pregnant Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women.Nicotine & tobacco research : official journal of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco · 2015Article
- Smoking cessation in pregnancy: psychosocial interventions and patient-focused perspectives.International journal of women's health · 2015Review
- Using breath carbon monoxide to validate self-reported tobacco smoking in remote Australian Indigenous communities.Population health metrics · 2010Article
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Abstract
objectiveTo assess the differential effectiveness of two methods of disseminating a smoking cessation programme to public hospital antenatal clinics.
designGroup randomised trial.
setting22 antenatal clinics in New South Wales, Australia.
interventionClinics were allocated to a simple dissemination (SD) condition (11 clinics) which received a mail-out of programme resources or to an intensive dissemination (ID) condition (11 clinics) which included the mail-out plus feedback, training, and ongoing support with midwife facilitator.
main outcome measuresIndependent cross sectional surveys of women on a second or subsequent visit undertaken pre-dissemination and 18 months after dissemination. Outcomes were: (1) levels of smoking status assessment by clinic staff; (2) proportion of women identifying as having been smokers at their first visit who reported receiving cessation advice; (3) proportion of these women who had quit (self report and expired air carbon monoxide (CO)); and (4) smoking prevalence among all women (self report and CO). SUBJECTS: 5849 women pre-dissemination (2374 SD, 3475 ID) and weighted sample of 5145 women post-dissemination (2302 SD, 2843 ID).
resultsThere were no significant differences between the groups on change on any outcome. Change in either group was minimal. In the post-dissemination survey, the cessation proportions were 6.4% (SD) and 10.5% (ID).
conclusionsRelatively modest strategies for encouraging incorporation of smoking cessation activities into antenatal care were not effective in the long term. Alternative strategies should be implemented and evaluated. The findings reinforce the importance of a whole population approach to tobacco control.
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