Table 4 Suggestions to address perceived barriers related to contextual factors
From: Exploring the adequacy of smoking cessation support for pregnant and postpartum women
Contextual factors | Suggestions to address barriers |
|---|---|
Rural/remote location | Resources and strategies to increase number and diversity of health/social care providers and to provide cessation specific training |
Transportation, peer telephone support or mobile health bus service | |
Adolescents | Greater provider sensitivity towards adolescents |
Incorporate teen programming into cessation/pregnancy resources | |
Interweave tobacco and sexual health education/counseling | |
Youth empowerment approach | |
Aboriginal women | Social welfare and access to education measures |
Adoption of Aboriginal health perspective |