Enhanced prenatal case management for low income smokers

• Published in: Tobacco control Vol. 9; no. suppl 3; pp. iii75 - 77
• Main Authors: Dolan-Mullen, Patricia, DiClemente, Carlo C, Velasquez, Mary M, Timpson, Sandra C, Groff, Janet Y, Carbonari, Joseph P, Nicol, Laurel
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: England BMJ Publishing Group Ltd 01-09-2000; BMJ Publishing Group LTD; BMJ Group
• Subjects: Adult; Age; Case Management; Clinics; Colleges & universities; Counseling; Feedback; Female; Gestational age; Health Promotion; Humans; Income; Intervention; Medicaid; Mental health; Pregnancy; Prenatal care; Prenatal Care - standards; Smoke Free Families Project Brief; Smoking Cessation; Smoking Prevention; Socioeconomic Factors; Urine; Womens health; East Texas; United States > US
• ISSN: 0964-4563; 1468-3318
• DOI: 10.1136/tc.9.suppl_3.iii75

Standard and enhanced case management represented "usual care" during the time periods their respective groups received prenatal care. [...]we decided, and the respective institutional review boards concurred, that the trial did not need to be described as an intervention study. [...]from qualitative data we learned that saliva rather than urine is a better choice for a biologic measure to keep the samples from being thrown out in the clinic laboratory and to avoid the suspicion by study participants that urine might be tested for illegal drugs.