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Motivating Smoking Cessation Text Messages: Perspectives from Pregnant Smokers

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Title
Motivating Smoking Cessation Text Messages: Perspectives from Pregnant Smokers
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Maternal and Child Health Journal, February 2018
DOI 10.1007/s10995-018-2452-y
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Jennifer M. Schindler-Ruwisch, Leah E. Leavitt, Laura E. Macherelli, Monique M. Turner, Lorien C. Abroms

Abstract

The purpose of this research is to analyze cessation text-messages written by pregnant smokers to elucidate the target population's preferred content and message attributes. To achieve this goal, the objectives of this study are three-fold; to qualitatively code messages written by pregnant smokers for frame, type of appeal, and intended target. Study participants were recruited as part of a larger trial of pregnant smokers who were enrolled in a text-messaging program or control group and surveyed 1 month post-enrollment. Each participant was asked to write a brief message to another pregnant smoker and two independent coders qualitatively analyzed responses. User generated messages (N = 51) were equally loss and gain framed, and the most common appeals were: fear, guilt, cognitive, hope and empathy, in order of most to least frequent. The target of the majority of the messages was the baby. Allowing pregnant smokers to write cessation text-messages for other pregnant women can provide relevant insight into intervention content. Specifically, pregnant smokers appear to equally promote gain and loss frames, but may prefer messages that include components of fear and guilt related to the impact of smoking on their baby. Additional research is needed to systematically uncover perspectives of pregnant smokers to ensure interventions are optimally effective.

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Unknown 92 100%

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Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 17 18%
Student > Bachelor 9 10%
Student > Ph. D. Student 8 9%
Student > Doctoral Student 8 9%
Researcher 6 7%
Other 13 14%
Unknown 31 34%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Nursing and Health Professions 16 17%
Medicine and Dentistry 14 15%
Psychology 10 11%
Business, Management and Accounting 4 4%
Unspecified 3 3%
Other 8 9%
Unknown 37 40%
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