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This study aims to explore alcohol use intentions during pregnancy, using variables from the theory of planned behavior, the prototype/willingness model and personality variables. the study also investigated whether priming participants with exposure to prototypes describing different alcohol use behaviors had an impact on intentions. 746 women aged 20 to 45 years, were randomized to be prompted to think of one of two different “types” of behaviors, i.e., small level of alcohol use in pregnancy and ambiguous level of alcohol use in pregnancy. they then completed measures of theoretical variables, impulsivity, venturesomeness, and self-efficacy. Participants then answered whether they intended to use alcohol during a future pregnancy.
- Date:
- May 2023
- Journal name:
- Substance Use and Misuse
- Authors:
- Tess Fletcher, Barbara Mullan, Amy Finlay-Jones.
This systematic review describes allied health and educational interventions and their effectiveness for children and adolescents with fetal alcohol spectrum disorder (FASD), to appraise the quality and strength of these studies. The systematic review included 25 studies with 735 participants. Body function and structure, activity, behaviour, and sense of self outcomes were pooled.
- Date:
- May 2023
- Journal name:
- Disability and Rehabilitation
- Authors:
- Catherine Hilly, Peter Wilson, Barbara Lucas, Thomas McGuckian, Ruth Swanton, Elspeth Froude.
Individuals with lived experience of FASD hold expertise on their own lives and family needs, and their insights on the assessment and diagnostic process are valuable to improving service delivery and informing the provision of meaningful, person- and family-centred care. This systematic review draws on qualitative evidence on the lived experiences of the diagnostic assessment process for FASD.
- Date:
- May 2023
- Journal name:
- Alcohol Clinical and Experimental Research
- Authors:
- N. Hayes, K. Bagley, N. Hewlett, E. J. Elliott, C. F. Pestell, M. J. Gullo, Z. Munn, P. Middleton, P. Walker, H. Till, D. C. Shanley, S. L. Young, N. Boaden, D. Hutchinson, N. R. Kippin, A. Finlay-Jones, R. Friend, D. Shelton, A. Crichton, N. Reid.
This review explores literature informing Australian social work in the context of FASD. It highlights the need for increased social work research to inform evidence-based practice (in FASD diagnosis and management using the biopsychosocial-spiritual-cultural framework. Social workers are often first to identify children's emotional, behavioural, and learning difficulties that may be a characteristic of FASD.
- Date:
- April 2023
- Journal name:
- Australian Social Work
- Authors:
- Nirosha Boaden, Jung-Sook Lee, Therese M. Cumming
This study aims to understand service users' experiences at a recently established student-led interprofessional neurodevelopmental clinic for children and adolescents with suspected or confirmed prenatal alcohol exposure.
- Date:
- May 2023
- Journal name:
- Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health
- Authors:
- Khari Nicola Garavelis, Nicole Hayes, Tanya A Rose, Maree Maloney, Karen Liddle, Karen Moritz, Matthew Gullo, Hannah L Gullo, Rebeccah McMah, Helen Heussler, Natasha Reid.
This paper explores the available literature to understand how risks regarding prenatal alcohol exposure are perceived.Three dimensions of risk perceptions were identified—perceived susceptibility, perceived severity, and affective risk perception. Three influencing factors of these dimensions were also identified: information, sociocultural, and individual. These dimensions and influencing factors were brought together to create the proposed novel Pregnancy Alcohol Risk Perception (PARP) conceptual model.
- Date:
- February 2023
- Journal name:
- Chronic Disease Prevention and Control
- Authors:
- May N. Erng, Natasha Reid, Karen M. Moritz, Mieke van Driel.
Underpinned by an Indigenist research methodology, this article presents findings from a collaboration of Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal peoples to develop an Australian Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD) Indigenous Framework during 2021 to 2023. The FASD Indigenous Framework unfolds the changes that non-Aboriginal clinicians and Aboriginal peoples each need to make in their respective ways of knowing, being and doing in order to facilitate access to healing-informed, strengths-based and culturally responsive FASD knowledge, assessment, diagnosis and support services among Aboriginal peoples. These knowledges were mapped against Aboriginal cultural responsiveness and wellbeing frameworks and collaboratively and iteratively reflected upon throughout. This article brings together Aboriginal wisdom (strengths-based, healing-informed approaches grounded in holistic and integrated support) and Western wisdom (biomedicine and therapeutic models) in relation to FASD.
- Date:
- March 2023
- Journal name:
- International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
- Authors:
- Nicole Hewlett, Lorian Hayes, Robyn Williams, Sharynne Hamilton, Lorelle Holland, Alana Gall, Michael Doyle, Sarah Goldsbury, Nirosha Boaden, Natasha Reid.
There have been significant advances in assessment processes and diagnostic criteria since the effects of prenatal alcohol exposure were first described in the medical literature. However, a key issue that continues to plague the FASD field is a lack of agreement regarding terminology, and criteria for describing and diagnosing FASD. A significant opportunity exists for the FASD field to work together and utilise the best available evidence to advance an empirically based approach to FASD diagnosis.
- Date:
- February 2023
- Journal name:
- Alcohol: Clinical and Experimental Research
- Authors:
- Natasha Reid
Consequences for children born with birth defects and developmental disabilities encompassed by FASD are profound, affecting all areas of social, behavioural and cognitive functioning. Given the strong evidence for a core deficit in executive functioning, underpinned by impaired self-regulation skills, there has been a growing focus on the development of interventions that enhance or support the development of executive functions. This review aims to synthesise the evidence for structured psychological interventions that explicitly aim to improve executive function in children. The review also sought to ascertain if the effectiveness of interventions were influenced by characteristics of the intervention, participants or type of executive function targeted by the intervention.
- Date:
- November 2022
- Journal name:
- Campbell Systematic Reviews
- Authors:
- Joseph Lee Betts, Elizabeth Eggins, Ned Chandler-Mather, Doug Shelton, Haydn Till, Paul Harnett, Sharon Dawe.
FASD is a high prevalence but underdiagnosed group of disorders affecting between 17 and 36% of individuals in criminal justice settings. Little research has been completed on how to best support individuals with these conditions in criminal justice settings. This article proposes a renewed focus on applying and adapting the Risk-Need-Responsivity (RNR) approach to individuals with FASD in criminal justice settings. This will assist in better determining the needs and interventions likely to effect change and reduce recidivism for this prominent criminal justice-based population. The RNR approach has been used with multiple corrections populations to determine the need and most appropriate interventions, as well as how to best allocate scarce resources. As the prevalence of FASD becomes better understood and recognized, evidence-based approaches to addressing this specific sub-population are necessary to effect change and reduce recidivism and ongoing involvement in the criminal justice system.
- Date:
- January 2023
- Journal name:
- Frontiers in Pyschology
- Authors:
- Jerrod Brown, Joe Arvidson, Megan N Carter, Vanessa Spiller.