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Title: Barriers and facilitators to smoking cessation in pregnancy and postpartum: The healthcare professionals’ perspective
Author(s): Naughton, Felix
Hopewell, Sarah
Sinclair, Lesley
McCaughan, Dorothy
McKell, Jennifer
Bauld, Linda
Keywords: health professional
postpartum
pregnancy
qualitative
smoking
smoking cessation
social‐ecological model
Issue Date: 30-Sep-2018
Date Deposited: 16-Apr-2018
Citation: Naughton F, Hopewell S, Sinclair L, McCaughan D, McKell J & Bauld L (2018) Barriers and facilitators to smoking cessation in pregnancy and postpartum: The healthcare professionals’ perspective. British Journal of Health Psychology, 23 (3), pp. 741-757. https://doi.org/10.1111/bjhp.12314
Abstract: Objectives:  Healthcare professionals and the healthcare environment play a central role in protecting pregnant and postpartum women and their infants from smoking-related harms. This study aimed to better understand the health professional’s perspective on how interactions between women, healthcare professionals and the environment influence how smoking is managed.  Design:  Semi-structured interviews and focus groups.  Methods:  Data were from 48 healthcare staff involved in antenatal or postpartum care at two UK sites, including midwives, obstetricians, health visitors, GPs, pharmacists, service commissioners and Stop Smoking Service (SSS) advisors and managers. Thematic analysis was guided by a Social-Ecological Framework (SEF).  Results:  Themes were divided across three SEF levels and represented factors connected to the management of smoking in the healthcare context and the beliefs and behaviour of pregnant or postpartum smokers. Organisational level: service reconfigurations, 'last resort' nicotine replacement therapy prescribing policies, and non-mandatory training were largely negative factors. There were mixed views on opt-out referral pathways and positive views on carbon monoxide monitoring. Inter-personal level: protection of client-professional relationships often inhibited frank discussions about smoking, and weak inter-service relationships affected SSS referral motivation and quality. Individual level: professionals felt community midwives had primary responsibility for managing smoking, though midwives felt under-skilled doing this. Midwives’ perceived priority for addressing smoking was influenced by the demands from unrelated organisational initiatives.  Conclusions:  Opportunities to improve clinical support for pregnant smokers exist at organisational, inter-service and healthcare professional levels. Interactions between levels reflect the importance of simultaneously addressing different level-specific barriers to smoking cessation in pregnancy
DOI Link: 10.1111/bjhp.12314
Rights: © 2018 The Authors. British Journal of Health Psychology published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd on behalf of British Psychological Society This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution‐NonCommercial License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited and is not used for commercial purposes.
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