Helping pregnant and postpartum people reduce tobacco and cannabis use
Partnering with Pregnant and Postpartum Women to Co-Create a Novel Intervention to Reduce Tobacco and Cannabis Use
This project partners with pregnant and postpartum people who use tobacco and cannabis to co-create a program that treats depression to help them quit or cut down on smoking.
Quick facts
| Grant type | R01 grant |
|---|---|
| Study type | NIH-funded research |
| Funding institution | University of Pittsburgh at Pittsburgh NIH-funded |
| Lab location | 1 site (Pittsburgh, United States) |
| Project ID | NIH-11192777 on NIH RePORTER |
What this research studies
You would work with researchers and a community collaborative to share your experiences with tobacco and cannabis use during and after pregnancy. The team will co-create an interview guide and conduct in-depth interviews with about 35 pregnant or parenting people who used both substances and experienced prenatal depressive symptoms. Researchers and community members will code and analyze themes from those interviews and then use an intervention mapping process to design a support program targeting depressive symptoms to help reduce tobacco and cannabis use. The final intervention will be built with direct input from people with lived experience so it better fits real needs and contexts.
Who could benefit from this research
Good fit: Ideal candidates are pregnant or recently postpartum people who currently or recently used both tobacco and cannabis and experienced depressive symptoms during pregnancy.
Not a fit: People who are not pregnant or postpartum, who only use one substance, or who did not have prenatal depressive symptoms may not benefit from this specific intervention.
Why it matters
Potential benefit: If successful, this could create a patient-designed program that helps pregnant and postpartum people stop using tobacco and cannabis and improves health for parents and infants.
How similar studies have performed: Treating depressive symptoms has supported smoking cessation in prior research, but co-created programs that target both tobacco and cannabis use during pregnancy are relatively new.
Where this research is happening
Pittsburgh, United States
- University of Pittsburgh at Pittsburgh — Pittsburgh, United States (Active)
Researchers
- Principal investigator: De Genna, Natacha — University of Pittsburgh at Pittsburgh
- Study coordinator: De Genna, Natacha
About this research
- This is an active NIH-funded research project — typically early-stage science, not a clinical trial accepting patient enrollment.
- Some NIH-funded labs run parallel clinical studies or seek volunteers for related work. To check, contact the principal investigator or institution listed above.
- For full project details, budget, and progress reports, visit the official NIH RePORTER page below.