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Author:

ACQUAVITA Shauna P.; et al.;

Title:

Individual and community predictors of maternal smoking in the city of Baltimore: what can be learned from a predominantly minority case controlled study?

Reference:

Social Work in Health Care, 51(3), March 2012, pp.197-212.

ISSN paper:

0098-1389

ISSN online:

1541-034X

Abstract:

This paper examines the individual and community factors which predict maternal smoking, particularly those that affect low income minority women.  A case control study was conducted of mothers who gave birth in the year 2000 in Baltimore, Maryland. Data was drawn from birth certificate data of the Maryland’s Vital Statistics Administration. A matched sample of 500 birth certificates of smokers and 500 from non-smokers was examined. Conditional multinomial logistic regression results indicated that White women were more likely to start smoking at a young age, but as they got older, they were less likely to smoke. Minority women were more likely to start smoking at a later age. Also, White women were more likely to smoke as the rate of poverty increased, while for minority women, smoking was unrelated to whether they lived in higher or lower poverty areas. Medical assistance status, community education level, and crime rate were not found to be related to smoking status. The implications of these findings for interventions to address maternal smoking are discussed.

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Format:

article;

Topics:

black and minority ethnic people; mothers; poverty; pregnancy; smoking;

Content Type:

research;

Country/Region:

United States;

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