The groups' most recent findings, published online this month in Preventive Medicine, demonstrated that providing incentives more than doubled smoking abstinence rates during pregnancy and increased fetal growth. They also examined whether altering the way the incentives were offered might get still more women to quit, without increasing costs, but that strategy was not successful.
About 23 percent of women of childbearing age are regular smokers, says Higgins, a professor of psychiatry and psychology at the University of Vermont, who adds that smoking prevalence varies by socioeconomic status -- particularly in terms of educational attainment.
"More than 40 percent of women with a high school GED report regular smoking versus eight percent of college graduates and six percent of those with graduate degrees," Higgins says. While about 20 percent of smokers quit without formal treatment soon after learning of a pregnancy, the vast majority of the largest segment of this group smoke through the pregnancy if there is no formal intervention.
Participants in the study, which took place between 2006 and 2012, included 118 pregnant women smokers from the greater Burlington, Vt., area. For this project, Higgins and his team adapted a previously-proven voucher-based incentive intervention to decrease smoking during pregnancy and increase fetal growth, without increasing the cost of the intervention. Study participants were randomized to receive either of two incentive interventions or to a control condition that received comparable incentives even if they were unable to quit. Two serial ultrasound examinations were performed at approximately 30- and 34-week gestation to estimate fetal growth.
"This trial provides further evidence that providing financial incentives for quitting can increase smoking abstinence in economically-disadvantaged pregnant smokers and increase the healthy growth of their fetuses," says Higgins. "We still need to find a way to get a larger percentage of women/infants to benefit from the intervention, but these study results show we're on the right track."
Colleagues across the U.S. and beyond are paying attention to this research, says Higgins, who notes evaluations underway in Oregon and Wisconsin exploring the use of incentives among women insured by Medicaid. The United Kingdom began exploring adaptations of this voucher-based incentive approach several years ago.
พบกลุ่มล่าสุด เผยแพร่ออนไลน์เดือนนี้ในยาป้องกัน แสดงว่า การให้แรงจูงใจมากกว่าสองเท่าสูบบุหรี่ละเว้นราคาในระหว่างตั้งครรภ์ และการเพิ่มขึ้นและทารกในครรภ์เจริญเติบโต พวกเขายังตรวจสอบว่ามีการเปลี่ยนแปลงวิธีเลือกสิ่งจูงใจอาจจะยังคงผู้หญิงจบ โดยไม่ต้องเพิ่มต้นทุน แต่ว่ากลยุทธ์ไม่ประสบความสำเร็จประมาณร้อยละ 23 ของผู้หญิงวัย childbearing มีผู้สูบบุหรี่เป็นประจำ กล่าวว่า ฮิกกินส์ อาจารย์จิตเวชและจิตวิทยาที่มหาวิทยาลัย Vermont ผู้สูบบุหรี่ชุกแตกต่างกันไปตามสถานะประชากร — โดยเฉพาะอย่างยิ่งในด้านการศึกษาโดยเพิ่ม"กว่า 40 เปอร์เซ็นต์ของผู้หญิงกับบุหรี่ปกติรายงานมัธยม ged ให้ได้ภายกับแปดร้อยละของบัณฑิตวิทยาลัยและหกเปอร์เซ็นต์ของผู้ที่มีองศาบัณฑิต ฮิกกินส์กล่าวว่า ในขณะที่ประมาณร้อยละ 20 ของผู้สูบบุหรี่เลิก โดยไม่มีการรักษาอย่างเป็นทางการเร็ว ๆ นี้หลังจากการเรียนรู้ของการตั้งครรภ์ ส่วนใหญ่ของเซ็กเมนต์ที่ใหญ่ที่สุดของกลุ่มนี้ควันผ่านการตั้งครรภ์ถ้าไม่แทรกแซงไม่เป็นทางการParticipants in the study, which took place between 2006 and 2012, included 118 pregnant women smokers from the greater Burlington, Vt., area. For this project, Higgins and his team adapted a previously-proven voucher-based incentive intervention to decrease smoking during pregnancy and increase fetal growth, without increasing the cost of the intervention. Study participants were randomized to receive either of two incentive interventions or to a control condition that received comparable incentives even if they were unable to quit. Two serial ultrasound examinations were performed at approximately 30- and 34-week gestation to estimate fetal growth."This trial provides further evidence that providing financial incentives for quitting can increase smoking abstinence in economically-disadvantaged pregnant smokers and increase the healthy growth of their fetuses," says Higgins. "We still need to find a way to get a larger percentage of women/infants to benefit from the intervention, but these study results show we're on the right track."Colleagues across the U.S. and beyond are paying attention to this research, says Higgins, who notes evaluations underway in Oregon and Wisconsin exploring the use of incentives among women insured by Medicaid. The United Kingdom began exploring adaptations of this voucher-based incentive approach several years ago.
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The groups' most recent findings, published online this month in Preventive Medicine, demonstrated that providing incentives more than doubled smoking abstinence rates during pregnancy and increased fetal growth. They also examined whether altering the way the incentives were offered might get still more women to quit, without increasing costs, but that strategy was not successful.
About 23 percent of women of childbearing age are regular smokers, says Higgins, a professor of psychiatry and psychology at the University of Vermont, who adds that smoking prevalence varies by socioeconomic status -- particularly in terms of educational attainment.
"More than 40 percent of women with a high school GED report regular smoking versus eight percent of college graduates and six percent of those with graduate degrees," Higgins says. While about 20 percent of smokers quit without formal treatment soon after learning of a pregnancy, the vast majority of the largest segment of this group smoke through the pregnancy if there is no formal intervention.
Participants in the study, which took place between 2006 and 2012, included 118 pregnant women smokers from the greater Burlington, Vt., area. For this project, Higgins and his team adapted a previously-proven voucher-based incentive intervention to decrease smoking during pregnancy and increase fetal growth, without increasing the cost of the intervention. Study participants were randomized to receive either of two incentive interventions or to a control condition that received comparable incentives even if they were unable to quit. Two serial ultrasound examinations were performed at approximately 30- and 34-week gestation to estimate fetal growth.
"This trial provides further evidence that providing financial incentives for quitting can increase smoking abstinence in economically-disadvantaged pregnant smokers and increase the healthy growth of their fetuses," says Higgins. "We still need to find a way to get a larger percentage of women/infants to benefit from the intervention, but these study results show we're on the right track."
Colleagues across the U.S. and beyond are paying attention to this research, says Higgins, who notes evaluations underway in Oregon and Wisconsin exploring the use of incentives among women insured by Medicaid. The United Kingdom began exploring adaptations of this voucher-based incentive approach several years ago.
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