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Informed by the Necessities and Concerns Framework, we developed an intervention targeting pregnancy NRT adherence. To evaluate this, we derived the NRT in pregnancy necessities and concerns questionnaire (NiP-NCQ), which measures perceived need for NRT and concerns about potential consequences.<\/jats:p>\n               <\/jats:sec>\n               <jats:sec>\n                  <jats:title>Aims and Methods<\/jats:title>\n                  <jats:p>Here we describe the development and content validation of NiP-NCQ. From qualitative work, we identified potentially modifiable determinants of pregnancy NRT adherence and classed these as necessity beliefs or concerns. We translated these into draft self-report items and piloted items on 39 pregnant women offered NRT and a prototype NRT adherence intervention, assessing distributions and sensitivity to change. After removing poorly performing items, smoking cessation experts (N = 16) completed an online discriminant content validation (DCV) task to determine whether retained items measure a necessity belief, concern, both, or neither construct.<\/jats:p>\n               <\/jats:sec>\n               <jats:sec>\n                  <jats:title>Results<\/jats:title>\n                  <jats:p>Draft NRT concern items encompassed safety for the baby, side effects, too much or insufficient nicotine, and addictiveness. Draft necessity belief items included perceived need for NRT for short- and longer-term abstinence, and desire to minimize or cope without NRT. Of 22 out of 29 items retained after piloting, four were removed following the DCV task: three were judged to measure neither construct and one possibly both. The final NiP-NCQ comprised nine items per construct (18 total).<\/jats:p>\n               <\/jats:sec>\n               <jats:sec>\n                  <jats:title>Conclusions<\/jats:title>\n                  <jats:p>The NiP-NCQ measures potentially modifiable determinants of pregnancy NRT adherence within two distinct constructs and may have research and clinical utility for evaluating interventions targeting these.<\/jats:p>\n               <\/jats:sec>\n               <jats:sec>\n                  <jats:title>Implications<\/jats:title>\n                  <jats:p>Poor adherence to NRT in pregnancy may result from low perceived need and concerns about consequences; interventions challenging these beliefs may yield higher smoking cessation rates. To evaluate an NRT adherence intervention informed by the Necessities and Concerns Framework, we developed the NiP-NCQ. Through the content development and refinement processes described in this paper, we derived an evidence-based, 18-item questionnaire measuring two distinct constructs within two nine-item subscales. Higher concerns and lower necessity beliefs indicate more negative NRT beliefs; NiP-NCQ may have research and clinical utility for interventions targeting these.<\/jats:p>\n               <\/jats:sec>","DOI":"10.1093\/ntr\/ntad030","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2023,3,2]],"date-time":"2023-03-02T13:22:28Z","timestamp":1677763348000},"page":"1310-1318","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":5,"title":["Development and Content Validation of a Questionnaire for Measuring Beliefs About Using Nicotine Replacement Therapy for Smoking Cessation in Pregnancy"],"prefix":"10.1093","volume":"25","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-8915-7033","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Joanne","family":"Emery","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Health Sciences, University of East Anglia , Norwich , UK"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-5032-2380","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Lisa","family":"McDaid","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Health Sciences, University of East Anglia , Norwich , UK"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-7303-4805","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Tim","family":"Coleman","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Division of Primary Care, University of Nottingham, Nottingham , UK"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Sue","family":"Cooper","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Division of Primary Care, University of Nottingham, Nottingham , UK"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Ross","family":"Thomson","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Division of Primary Care, University of Nottingham, Nottingham , UK"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Darren","family":"Kinahan-Goodwin","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Division of Primary Care, University of Nottingham, Nottingham , UK"},{"name":"Adult Social Care and Health , Derbyshire County Council, Matlock , UK"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Anne","family":"Dickinson","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Division of Primary Care, University of Nottingham, Nottingham , UK"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-3574-6561","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Lucy","family":"Phillips","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Division of Primary Care, University of Nottingham, Nottingham , UK"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Miranda","family":"Clark","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Division of Primary Care, University of Nottingham, Nottingham , UK"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Katharine","family":"Bowker","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Division of Primary Care, University of Nottingham, Nottingham , UK"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-4753-3774","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Emma","family":"Brown","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Social Sciences, Leeds Beckett University , Leeds , UK"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-9790-2796","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Felix","family":"Naughton","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Health Sciences, University of East Anglia , Norwich , UK"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"286","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2023,3,2]]},"reference":[{"key":"2023061004443166100_CIT0001","volume-title":"Infant Feeding Survey -2010, Early results","author":"The National Health Service Information Centre for Health and Social Care.","year":"2011"},{"key":"2023061004443166100_CIT0002","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"138","DOI":"10.1186\/1471-2458-5-138","article-title":"Socio-demographic factors associated with smoking and smoking cessation among 426,344 pregnant women in New South Wales, Australia","volume":"5","author":"Mohsin","year":"2005","journal-title":"BMC Public Health"},{"issue":"7","key":"2023061004443166100_CIT0003","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"760","DOI":"10.1080\/00016340802179814","article-title":"Do pregnant women still smoke? 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