Partner organisations
The MOHMQuit trial is funded by the National Health and Medical Research Council with support from the NSW Ministry of Health, the Cancer Council NSW, the Cancer Institute NSW, the Northern NSW LHD, Western NSW LHD, Murrumbidgee LHD, Illawarra Shoalhaven LHD and Nepean Blue Mountains LHD.
Status/timing
MOHMQuit was developed through a collaborative program of research, commencing in 2014. The implementation trial commenced in November 2020 and will continue until the end of 2025.
What does the Project focus on?
MOHMQuit focuses on helping maternity services to provide evidence-based, effective smoking cessation support during antenatal care, with the aim of helping women to quit smoking. Research for MOHMQuit started in 2014 with qualitative and quantitative studies with midwives and obstetricians to find the barriers and enablers they experience in providing smoking cessation support to pregnant mothers. Following collaborative development of MOHMQuit with health system partners and a feasibility study of the MOHMQuit program at one maternity service, we are now running a large trial in nine maternity services in NSW.
What type of project/study?
MOHMQuit is a cluster-randomised stepped-wedge implementation trial. This means that all trial sites (clusters) receive the MOHMQuit intervention in a stepped fashion, and that baseline and follow-up data is collected from all sites across the 32-month trial period. There is also a control site throughout the trial.
What do we expect to achieve with this project when complete
The MOHMQuit trial will provide real world evidence of the effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of the MOHMQuit program. This will inform policy and potentially allow for subsequent scaling-up. Additionally, it will advance our understanding of developing and implementing systems-change behavioural interventions by examining what worked, where and why, through a comprehensive process evaluation.
Unexpected direction?
When we started this project, very few people used vapes (e-cigarettes). However, the rapid escalation in their use, including by pregnant women, has raised serious health concerns. We have commenced additional research to better understand this phenomenon.
