Fiona Dunlop Health Improvement Lead (Tobacco), NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde
Abstract
A review of NHS GGC Smokefree Pregnancy Service (SPS) was conducted. It was evident that there was disengagement from the service a various stages throughout the SPS pathway. An independent evaluation of the SPS was commissioned to investigate this.
Research questions: why pregnant women who smoke and arrange an appointment with the SPS do not attend their appointment; why pregnant women who smoke and attend their appointment with the SPS advisor subsequently withdraw from the service before setting a quit date; why pregnant women who smoke and set a quit date withdraw from the SPS and why women who attend the service and are successful in stopping smoking.
In the first instance quantitative analysis of routinely collected SPS data was conducted to identify if there were specific characteristics that suggested who might disengaged with the service at the various stages under investigation and the characteristics of those who are successful, for example deprivation category or source of referral, this then determined the inclusion criteria from the telephone interviews. 30 interviews were conducted.
An overview of the evaluation, key findings and recommendations will be presented. Recommendations go wider than the SPS, requiring support from various professionals and organisations.
