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Continued smoking versus spontaneous quitting among pregnant women living in a high risk environment
SUMMARY
Objectives: In Hungary, 37% of women living in poverty were smokers in 2012. There are no valid data of pregnant womenâs spontaneous
smoking cessation.
Methods: Our retrospective cohort study (2009â2012) targeted the most underdeveloped regions with an estimated 6â8.5% of Roma population.
The sample (N = 12,552) represented 76% of the target population i.e. women in four counties in a year delivering live born babies. Chi-square
probe and multivariable logistic regression model (p < 0.05) were used to assess relationship between socio-demographic characteristics and
spontaneous cessation.
Results: Prior to pregnancy, the overall smoking rate was 36.8%. That of women in deep poverty and Roma was 49.7% and 51.1%, respectively.
70.3% of smokers continued smoking during the pregnancy. Among them 80.6% lived in deep poverty. Spontaneous quitting rate was 23.0%. Factors
correlated with continued smoking included being Roma (OR = 1.95), undereducated (OR = 2.66), living in homes lacking amenities (OR = 1.48),
and having regularly smoking partner (OR = 2.07). Cessation was promoted by younger age (†18 years) (OR = 0.18), being married (OR = 0.50),
and the first pregnancy.
Conclusions: Tailored cessation programmes are needed for Roma, older, low-income, and multiparous women who are less likely to quit on
their own. Engaging husbands/partners is essential to reduce smoking among pregnant women and second-hand smoke exposur
Towards an EU measure of child deprivation
This paper proposes a new measure of child material and social deprivation (MSD) in the European Union (EU) which includes age appropriate child-specific information available from the thematic deprivation modules included in the 2009 and 2014 waves of the âEU Statistics on Income and Living Conditionsâ (EUâSILC). It summarises the main results of the in-depth analysis of these two datasets, identifies an optimal set of robust children MSD items and recommends a childâspecific MSD indicator for use by EU countries and the European Commission in their regular social monitoring. In doing this, the paper replicates and expands on the methodological framework outlined in Guio, Gordon and Marlier (2012), particularly by including additional advanced reliability tests