Open AccessTe social portrait of women refused from smoking during pregnancy: a study based on birth register
Author(s) -
О А Харькова,
A G Soloviev,
Anton Alexandrovich Kovalenko,
Jø Odland
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
obozrenie psihiatrii i medicinskoj psihologii im. v.m. behtereva/obozrenie psihiatrii i medicinskoj psihologii imeni v.m. behtereva
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2713-055X
pISSN - 2313-7053
DOI - 10.31363/2313-7053-2018-2-85-89
Subject(s) - pregnancy , logistic regression , portrait , medicine , demography , obstetrics , geography , sociology , genetics , archaeology , biology
Te aim of the study was to explore the prevalence of quitting smoking during pregnancy and to determine factors associated with the latter. We used data from Murmansk County Birth registry from 2006 to 2011. Chi-squared tests and logistic regression were applied. We found that one-fourth smoking before pregnancy woman stopped to do it afer pregnancy recognition. Moreover, we made a social portrait of women who could quit smoking during pregnancy — urban, married women, with higher level of education, and without children (that is primiparous).