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This study aimed to examine whether a tailored intervention can improve health providers management of smoking among pregnant Aboriginal and Torres Strait women. Health providers’ general knowledge about treating smoking during pregnancy, and specifically on how to discuss and recommend nicotine replacement therapy in pregnancy, improved significantly. Overall, health providers’ attitudes toward treating smoking during pregnancy, including attitudes toward prescribing nicotine replacement therapy in pregnancy, improved significantly. However, the self-reported practices were unchanged, including prescribing nicotine replacement therapy
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This page is a summary of: Improving smoking cessation care in pregnancy at Aboriginal Medical Services: ‘ICAN QUIT in Pregnancy’ step-wedge cluster randomised study, BMJ Open, June 2019, BMJ,
DOI: 10.1136/bmjopen-2018-025293.
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