ArticleBMJ open2019
Benefits of not smoking during pregnancy for Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women and their babies: a retrospective cohort study using linked data.
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- Factors Associated With Not Smoking and Ceasing Smoking During Pregnancy Among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Women.Nicotine & tobacco research : official journal of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco · 2026Article
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- Indigenous data governance approaches applied in research using routinely collected health data: a scoping review.NPJ digital medicine · 2024Article
- The effect of active and passive smoking during pregnancy on birth outcomes: A cohort study in Shanghai.Tobacco induced diseases · 2024Article
- A mixed methods evaluation of Quit for new life, a smoking cessation initiative for women having an Aboriginal baby.BMC health services research · 2023Article
- "It Needs a Full-Time Dedicated Person to Do This Job in Our Local Communities with Our Aboriginal Health Services"-Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Workers and Practitioners Perspectives on Supporting Smoking Cessation during Pregnancy.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
- Smoking and quitting characteristics of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women of reproductive age: findings from the Which Way? study.The Medical journal of Australia · 2022Article
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- Association of Prenatal Exposure to Maternal Drinking and Smoking With the Risk of Stillbirth.JAMA network open · 2021Article
- Benefits of not smoking during pregnancy for non-Aboriginal women and their babies in New South Wales, Australia: a record linkage study.International journal of population data science · 2021Article
- Active and Passive Maternal Smoking During Pregnancy and Birth Outcomes: A Study From a Developing Country.Annals of global health · 2021Article
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Abstract
objectivesTo provide evidence for targeted smoking cessation policy, the aim of this study was to compare pregnancy outcomes of Aboriginal mothers who reported
designPopulation based retrospective cohort study using linked data.
settingNew South Wales, the most populous Australian state. POPULATION: 18 154 singleton babies born to 13 477 Aboriginal mothers between 2010 and 2014 were identified from routinely collected New South Wales datasets. Aboriginality was determined from birth records and from four linked datasets through an Enhanced Reporting of Aboriginality algorithm. EXPOSURE:
main outcome measuresUnadjusted and adjusted relative risks (aRR) and 95% CIs from modified Poisson regression were used to examine associations between not smoking during pregnancy and maternal and perinatal outcomes including severe morbidity, inter-hospital transfer, perinatal death, preterm birth and small-for-gestational age. Population attributable fractions (PAFs) were calculated using adjusted relative risks.
resultsCompared with babies born to mothers who smoked during pregnancy, babies born to non-smoking mothers had a lower risk of all adverse perinatal outcomes including perinatal death (aRR=0.58, 95% CI 0.44 to 0.76), preterm birth (aRR=0.58, 95% CI 0.53 to 0.64) and small-for-gestational age (aRR=0.35, 95% CI 0.32 to 0.39). PAFs (%) were 27% for perinatal death, 26% for preterm birth and 48% for small-for-gestational-age. Compared with women who smoked during pregnancy (n=8919), those who did not smoke (n=9235) had a lower risk of being transferred to another hospital (aRR=0.76, 95% CI 0.66 to 0.89).
conclusionsBabies born to women who did not smoke during pregnancy had a lower risk of adverse perinatal outcomes. Rates of adverse outcomes among Aboriginal non-smokers were similar to those among the general population. These results quantify the proportion of adverse perinatal outcomes due to smoking and highlight why effective smoking cessation programme are urgently required for this population.
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