Researchers from UCRH are among the authors of a journal article recently published in BMJ Open Volume 14, Issue 3.
The article is titled Protocol for the process evaluation of an intervention to improve antenatal smoking cessation support (MOHMQuit) in maternity services in New South Wales Australia. From the outset, the authors make clear that smoking cessation in pregnancy remains a public health priority, before outlining the work they have done to develop MOHMQuit intervention. MOHMQuit addresses a critical evidence-to-practice gap in the provision of smoking cessation support in antenatal care.
The work the team has undertaken, which they outline in the article, involves nine maternity services in New South Wales in a cluster randomised stepped-wedge controlled trial of effectiveness. The paper describes the design and rationale for the process evaluation of MOHMQuit. The process evaluation aims to assess to what extent and how MOHMQuit is being implemented (acceptability; adoption/uptake; appropriateness; feasibility; fidelity; penetration and sustainability), and the context in which it is implemented, in order to support further refinement of MOHMQuit throughout the trial, and aid understanding and interpretation of the results of the trial.
