title: Pregnancy, ultrasound screening and smoking attitudes.
abstract: This questionnaire study was performed to evaluate screening as a tool to help reduce smoking among pregnant women and their partners. Three hundred women and their partners coming for ultrasound screening were asked to participate. Twenty-two percent of the women and 21% of the men were smoking regularly before pregnancy. Fifty-four percent of the women changed their smoking habits after knowledge of the pregnancy and before the scan. The corresponding figure for men was 19%. Before the scan 54% of the women and 49% of the men estimated their ability to stop smoking later in pregnancy as higher than 50%. The scan itself did not increase this figure. Among women with high consumption of cigarettes, the estimated ability to stop smoking was low.
authors.affiliation: Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Uppsala University, Sweden.
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Eurenius
authors.forename: O
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Axelsson
authors.forename: P O
authors.initials: PO
authors.lastname: Sjöden
mesh_terms: D001290:Attitude; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D011247:Pregnancy / Q000523:psychology*; D011262:Pregnancy Trimester, Second; D012907:Smoking / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000523:psychology*; D016540:Smoking Cessation / Q000523:psychology; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D013548:Sweden; D016216:Ultrasonography, Prenatal / Q000523:psychology*