Date of Award
2015
Degree Name
School Psychology
College
Graduate School of Education and Professional Development
Type of Degree
Ed.S.
Document Type
Thesis
First Advisor
Stephen L. O’Keefe
Second Advisor
Sandra S. Stroebel
Third Advisor
Martin J. Amerikaner
Abstract
This is a study of how participation in a community-based home-visitation program called Maternal Infant Health Outreach Worker (MIHOW) can have an effect on maternal smoking behavior and infant birthweight, and how the timing of enrollment can have an impact on those effects. Each participant was randomly assigned to the treatment or control group and answered survey questions during their pregnancies at the time of enrollment and after their babies reached one month of age. Results of this study indicated that the timing of enrollment did not have a significant effect on maternal smoking behavior or infant birthweight; however, the trend seemed to be that there were fewer smokers in the treatment group at the end of the study.
Subject(s)
School psychology.
Pregnant women -- Tobacco use.
Recommended Citation
White, Leah Elise, "Effects of participation in MIHOW program on maternal smoking and birthweight" (2015). Theses, Dissertations and Capstones. 931.
https://mds.marshall.edu/etd/931
