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If you are pregnant and smoke, admission to hospital may damage your baby's health
Author(s) -
THOMSON ANN M.
Publication year - 1993
Publication title -
journal of clinical nursing
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.94
H-Index - 102
eISSN - 1365-2702
pISSN - 0962-1067
DOI - 10.1111/j.1365-2702.1993.tb00144.x
Subject(s) - medicine , pregnancy , hospital admission , boredom , emergency medicine , pediatrics , obstetrics , genetics , biology , psychology , social psychology
Summary• It is recognized that smoking adversely affects the outcome of pregnancy. However, clinical experience suggested that women admitted to hospital during pregnancy smoked more than when they were at home. • Forty‐one women who were over 20 weeks pregnant, who smoked and had been in hospital for 2 days or more were interviewed using a structured schedule. • The women had made a significant reduction in their cigarette consumption during pregnancy but on admission to hospital the number of cigarettes smoked had almost returned to the pre‐pregnancy level. Boredom was seen as the main factor contributing to this increase. • Strategies for reducing the effects of admission to hospital on smoking behaviour are suggested.