Tobacco Cessation Intervention During Pregnancy Among Alaska Native Women
This paper describes a community-based participatory research program with Alaska Native people addressing a community need to reduce tobacco use among pregnant women and children. Tobacco use during pregnancy among Alaska Native women is described along with development of a community partnership,...
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ftpubmed:oai:pubmedcentral.nih.gov:3922823 2023-05-15T17:05:39+02:00 Tobacco Cessation Intervention During Pregnancy Among Alaska Native Women Patten, Christi A. 2012-04 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3922823 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22311690 https://doi.org/10.1007/s13187-012-0317-4 en eng http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3922823 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22311690 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s13187-012-0317-4 © Springer Science+Business Media, LLC 2012 Article Text 2012 ftpubmed https://doi.org/10.1007/s13187-012-0317-4 2014-02-16T01:52:39Z This paper describes a community-based participatory research program with Alaska Native people addressing a community need to reduce tobacco use among pregnant women and children. Tobacco use during pregnancy among Alaska Native women is described along with development of a community partnership, findings from a pilot tobacco cessation intervention, current work, and future directions. Among Alaska Native women residing in the Yukon Kuskokwim Delta region of western Alaska, the prevalence of tobacco use (cigarette smoking and/or use of smokeless tobacco) during pregnancy is 79%. Results from a pilot intervention study targeting pregnant women indicated low rates of participation and less than optimal tobacco abstinence outcomes. Developing alternative strategies to reach pregnant women and to enhance the efficacy of interventions is a community priority, and future directions are offered. Text Kuskokwim Alaska Yukon PubMed Central (PMC) Yukon Journal of Cancer Education 27 S1 86 90 |
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This paper describes a community-based participatory research program with Alaska Native people addressing a community need to reduce tobacco use among pregnant women and children. Tobacco use during pregnancy among Alaska Native women is described along with development of a community partnership, findings from a pilot tobacco cessation intervention, current work, and future directions. Among Alaska Native women residing in the Yukon Kuskokwim Delta region of western Alaska, the prevalence of tobacco use (cigarette smoking and/or use of smokeless tobacco) during pregnancy is 79%. Results from a pilot intervention study targeting pregnant women indicated low rates of participation and less than optimal tobacco abstinence outcomes. Developing alternative strategies to reach pregnant women and to enhance the efficacy of interventions is a community priority, and future directions are offered. |
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