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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2020 Jun 1.
Published in final edited form as: Am J Prev Med. 2019 Apr 17;56(6):852–859. doi: 10.1016/j.amepre.2019.02.008

Table 1.

Baseline Sociodemographic and Smoking-related Variables by Treatment Group (n=129)

Characteristics Control
N (%)
Intervention
N (%)
p-value
Births: none vs births at >20 weeks gestation 29/64 (45.3) 33/65 (50.8) 0.48
Years of education (mean/SD) 11.6 ± 2.2 11.9 ± 2.2 0.38
Gestational age (weeks) at first visit (mean/SD) 11.6 ± 6.3 12.6 ± 7.0 0.37
Caucasian race vs other 62/64 (96.9) 62/65 (95.4) 0.56
Private insurance vs Medicaid and uninsured 7/64 (10.9) 8/65 (12.3) 0.81
Married vs other 9/64 (14.1) 14/65 (21.5) 0.45
Depressed mood past montha 9/64 (14.1) 8/65 (12.3) 0.80
Perceived Stress Scoreb (mean/SD) 9.62 ± 3.4 9.42 ± 2.7 0.71
Support to quit from othersd 51/64 (79.7) 50/65 (76.9) 0.83
Cigarettes/day before pregnant (mean/SD) 15.8 ± 7.5 17.2 ± 9.5 0.38
Cigarettes/day in past 7 days (mean/SD) 6.58 ± 5.8 7.68 ± 10.8 0.47
Readiness to quit
 Seriously thinking of quitting smoking during this Pregnancye 63/64 (98.4) 64/65 (98.5) 0.37
 Plan to quit in the next 30 daysf 61/64 (95.3) 62/65 (95.3) 0.98
 Confidence can quitc 29/63 (46) 28/65 (43.1) 0.67
a

How much of the time, during the past month, have you felt downhearted and blue? (scoring: a lot, all the time, or a lot vs some or never).

b

Perceived Stress Scale (scoring: sum of four items range 4–20, scoring - high scores less stress).

c

If you decided to quit smoking during the next month, how confident are you that you could do it? (very vs somewhat, not very, or not at all).

d

If you tried to quit smoking, how much support or understanding do you think you would get from family, friends, and coworkers? (scoring; a lot vs some, not much, or none).

e

Are you seriously thinking about quitting smoking completely during this pregnancy (yes vs no).

f

Are you planning to quit smoking completely within the next 30 days (yes vs no).