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. 2015 Jun 27;18(5):1116–1125. doi: 10.1093/ntr/ntv145

Table 5.

Prevalence of the Receipt of 5A’s Among Smokers Who Received Prenatal Care in Both Countries

Argentina ( n = 300) Uruguay ( n = 411) Total ( n = 711)
At least one visit At more than one visit In all prenatal visits At least one visit At more than one visit In all prenatal visits At least one visit At more than one visit In all prenatal visits
Ask
 Did your doctor or other health care provider (HCP) ever ask you if you smoked? 276 (92.3%) 71 (23.8%) 40 (13.4%) 406 (99.0%) 149 (36.3%) 133 (32.4%) 682 (96.2%) 220 (31.0%) 173 (24.4%)
Advise
 Did your doctor or other HCP ever tell you that the best thing you could do for your health /baby’s health was to quit smoking? 170 (57.1%) 55 (18.5%) 30 (10.1%) 357 (87.3%) 114 (27.9%) 130 (31.8%) 527 (74.5%) 169 (23.9%) 160 (22.6%)
Assess
 Did your doctor or other HCP ever ask you if you wanted to quit smoking? 51 (17.0%) 16 (5.3%) 9 (3.0%) 105 (25.6%) 22 (5.4%) 31 (7.5%) 156 (21.9%) 38 (5.3%) 40 (5.6%)
Assist
 Did your doctor or other HCP ever tell you about things you could do to quit smoking? 28 (9.3%) 12 (4.0%) 3 (1.0%) 49 (12.0%) 16 (3.9%) 5 (1.2%) 77 (10.9%) 28 (4.0%) 8 (1.1%)
 Did your doctor or other HCP ever give you printed materials to help you quit smoking? 14 (4.7%) 3 (1.0%) 0 (0.0%) 32 (7.8%) 8 (2.0%) 3 (0.7%) 46 (6.5%) 11 (1.6%) 3 (0.4%)
 Did your doctor or other HCP ever give you the name of someone who could help you quit smoking? 13 (4.3%) 3 (1.0%) 1 (0.3%) 14 (3.4%) 5 (1.2%) 2 (0.5%) 27 (3.8%) 8 (1.1%) 3 (0.4%)
 Did your doctor or other HCP ever give you a quitline to call to quit smoking? 11 (3.7%) 2 (0.7%) 0 (0.0%) 17 (4.1%) 6 (1.5%) 2 (0.5%) 28 (3.9%) 8 (1.1%) 2 (0.3%)
 Any assist 32 (10.7%) 14 (4.7%) 4 (1.3%) 69 (16.8%) 23 (5.6%) 6 (1.5%) 101 (14.2%) 37 (5.2%) 10 (1.4%)
Arrange
 Did your doctor or other HCP ever tell you to come back to the clinic just to see how you were doing with your smoking? 12 (4.0%) 2 (0.7%) 0 (0.0%) 7 (1.7%) 1 (0.2%) 1 (0.2%) 19 (2.7%) 3 (0.4%) 1 (0.1%)