The effect of online motivational interviewing on pregnant women's smoking cessation behaviour: A randomized controlled trial.

Purpose Material and Method Findings Conclusion This study aims to examine the effect of online individual motivational interviewing based on the transtheoretical model on pregnant women's smoking cessation behaviour.Sixty‐two pregnant women who did not complete the 16th gestational week and who smoked were randomly assigned to intervention (<italic>n</italic> = 31) and control (<italic>n</italic> = 31) groups. While the intervention group was administered model‐based motivational individual counselling interventions, the control group was administered no interventions.The results showed that 58.1% of the pregnant women in the intervention group and 22.6% of the pregnant women in the control group ceased smoking.Online motivational interviewing based on the transtheoretical model was found to be effective in pregnant women's smoking cessation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]