Prevention of Postpartum Smoking Relapse in Mothers of Infants in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU)

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Conditions studied: Smoking

In brief

The investigators hypothesized that an enriched focus on mother-infant bonding during a newborn's hospitalization in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit would reduced the rate maternal postpartum smoking relapse and would prolong the duration of breastfeeding in mothers who had quit smoking during or just prior to pregnancy.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT01131156

Run by

Loma Linda University

People needed

54

Starts

2009-05-01

Expected to finish

2010-06-01

Last updated by the study team

2014-05-14

Who can join

Age: any, up to 0. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.

You may qualify if…

• Mothers:
• Who had quit smoking during pregnancy or within one year prior to pregnancy
• Who had newborns < 1 week old at the time of admission to our NICU.

You may not qualify if…

• Mothers:
• Who were smokers at the time of delivery
• Whose infant's length of stay < one week
• Who were not available (jail, adoption)
• Who had a history of drug use
• Who did not speak English

Where it is running

• Loma Linda University Children's Hospital — Loma Linda, California, United States

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