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- Title
Indigenous Women's Experiences of Smoking and Quitting Smoking in Pregnancy: A Phenomenological Study.
- Authors
Small, Sandra P.; Porr, Caroline
- Abstract
Background: Maternal smoking during pregnancy (MSDP) is an important public health concern because of potential adverse health effects to the woman, fetus, and child after birth. Prevalence rates are high among groups with socioeconomic disadvantage, including Indigenous women. Purpose: This study was conducted to understand experiences of MSDP for Indigenous women. Methods: The study was conducted using phenomenology. Data were collected through interviews with 15 pregnant and postnatal Indigenous women who had smoked during pregnancy. The data were analyzed for themes using phenomenological methods. Results: The women's narratives revealed four experiences: quitting smoking during pregnancy to protect the unborn baby from harm; quitting smoking during pregnancy because of personal adverse health effects; cutting down smoking during pregnancy and feeling remorse for not quitting; and keeping on smoking during pregnancy and not planning to try to quit. The women's experiences also indicated several impediments to quitting smoking. Conclusions: There is need for health care policy to ensure adequate smoking cessation services and support for Indigenous women who smoke in pregnancy. Health care professionals should provide individualized interventions that take into account the challenges to quitting that pregnant women experience and that are in accordance with clinical practice guidelines for MSDP.
- Subjects
CANADA; DRUG addiction; SMOKING cessation; INTERVIEWING; HELP-seeking behavior; PATIENTS' attitudes; PHENOMENOLOGY; HEALTH literacy; MOTHERHOOD; PARENTING; PRENATAL exposure delayed effects; ABORIGINAL Canadians; PSYCHOLOGY of women; HEALTH attitudes; RESEARCH funding; SMOKING; THEMATIC analysis
- Publication
Canadian Journal of Nursing Research, 2022, Vol 54, Issue 2, p144
- ISSN
0844-5621
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1177/08445621211044324