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Kathleen F Gaffney1, Heibatollah Baghi, Sarah E Sheehan
1School of Nursing, College of Health and Human Services, George Mason University, USA.
Tobacco use during pregnancy and postpartum is a leading cause of preventable morbidities for women and their infants. Over the past two decades, nursing research has addressed this recalcitrant clinical problem from a variety of conceptual and methodological perspectives. The 64 published studies (1988-2009) that met inclusion criteria for this systematic review represent the full research trajectory from concept development to intervention testing. Meta-analysis demonstrated an overall significant trend in nursing intervention efficacy (OR = 1.14, 95% CI = 1.08-1.2) for studies that examined comparable prenatal and postpartum smoking cessation outcomes. Implications for future nursing research and evidence-based policy are presented.
Tobacco use during pregnancy and postpartum is a leading cause of preventable morbidities for women and their infants. Over the past two decades, nursing research has addressed this recalcitrant clinical problem from a variety of conceptual and methodological perspectives. The 64 published studies (1988-2009) that met inclusion criteria for this systematic review represent the full research trajectory from concept development to intervention testing. Meta-analysis demonstrated an overall significant trend in nursing intervention efficacy (OR = 1.14, 95% CI = 1.08-1.2) for studies that examined comparable prenatal and postpartum smoking cessation outcomes. Implications for future nursing research and evidence-based policy are presented.
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