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

Purpose: This study aims to examine the effect of online individual motivational interviewing based on the transtheoretical model on pregnant women's smoking cessation behaviour. Material and Method: Sixty‐two pregnant women who did not complete the 16th gestational week and who smoked were randomly assigned to intervention (n = 31) and control (n = 31) groups. While the intervention group was administered model‐based motivational individual counselling interventions, the control group was administered no interventions. Findings 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. Conclusion: Online motivational interviewing based on the transtheoretical model was found to be effective in pregnant women's smoking cessation. Summary statement: What is already known about this topic? Smoking is one of the two leading causes of death worldwide.Smoking during pregnancy is a serious risk factor affecting both maternal and infant health.Nurses could make important contributions to raising non‐smoking generations and protecting and improving public health through trainings to be given to pregnant women. What this paper adds? This paper reveals that online motivational interviewing based on the transtheoretical model was effective in pregnant women's smoking cessation. The implications of this paper: The online motivational interviewing smoking cessation programme based on transtheoretical model, which forms the basis of our study, can be implemented by midwives and nurses without time, place and distance restrictions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]