16- Healthy Start Home Visits: Smoking Status

The section below contains information about one of the tabs in the Maternal & Child Health (MCH) Report.

Reminder: For each visit a KDHE Program Visit Form and a Service Form must be completed with matching Date of Activity and the correct program selection to ensure that all clients/visits are counted in reports.
Note: Instructions for accessing underlying client level data and downloading PDF versions of reports are available in the DAISEY TA Brief “Using Reports for Quality Assurance”.

16- Healthy Start Home Visits: Smoking Status

Data Source

Healthy Start Home Visitor Clients who Smoke is calculated from ‘Is this a Healthy Start home visit?’ and ‘Do you smoke?’ selected on the MCH Service Form during the most recent visit in the date range.

Form: MCH Service Form
Question:

  • Is this a Healthy Start home visit?
  • Do you smoke?

Troubleshooting Tip

Records in ‘Unknown/Not Reported’ are from MCH service forms where the question ‘Do you smoke?’ was left blank.  These blank responses should be corrected to ensure high quality of data for this report.

Data Source

Healthy Start Home Visitor Clients who Reported Someone Else in Household Smokes is calculated from ‘Is this a Healthy Start home visit?’ and ‘Does anyone else in the household smoke?’ selected on the MCH Service Form during the most recent visit in the date range.

Form: MCH Service Form
Question:

  • Is this a Healthy Start home visit?
  • Does anyone else in the household smoke?

Troubleshooting Tip

Records in ‘Unknown/Not Reported’ are from MCH service forms where the question ‘Does anyone else in the household smoke?’ was left blank.  These blank responses should be corrected to ensure high quality of data for this report.