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This paper published in 2020 analyses the content of news media messages on drinking during pregnancy in Australia over an 18-year period to understand whether and how the nature of messages communicated to women has changed over time.

Date:
July 2020
Journal name:
Alcohol and Alcoholism
Authors:
Cook M Leggat G Pennay A
Page last updated 16 June 2021

Researchers partnered with the local Aboriginal health organization and schools to develop and pilot a manualized version of the Alert Program® in the Fitzroy Valley, north Western Australia, a region with documented high rates of fetal alcohol spectrum disorder and early life trauma. Published in 2020

Date:
June 2020
Journal name:
PLoS One. 2020;15(6):e0234895.
Authors:
Wagner B, Latimer J, Adams E, Carmichael-Olson H, Symons M, Mazzucchelli TG, Jirikowic T, Watkins R, Cross D, Carapetis J, Boulton J, Wright E, McRae T, Carter M, Fitzpatric JP
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The aim of this study published in 2020 was to describe the demographic and neurocognitive profile of the first 199 individuals diagnosed with FASD in PATCHES Paediatrics clinics.

Date:
April 2020
Journal name:
Alcoholism, Clinical and Experimental Research Volume 44, Issue 6
Authors:
Connor S, Tan KY, Pestell CF, Fitzpatrick JP
Page last updated 16 June 2021

This study published in 2020 examined whether drinking or smoking while breastfeeding was associated with reductions in Australian National Assessment Program-Literacy and Numeracy assessments. Data was sourced from The Growing Up in Australia Study. This is an ongoing longitudinal study of 5107 infants and mothers recruited in 2004 and followed over time every two years.

Date:
March 2020
Journal name:
Nutrients
Authors:
Gibson L. Porter M
Page last updated 16 June 2021

This report published in 2020 outlines the development of the digital online Getting on with it (GOWI) pilot between NOFASD and Dr Anita Gibbs over the course of 2019, and includes a combined evaluation report of an internal brief survey as well as an external telephone-based evaluation undertaken in early 2020 by an independent, external contractor

Date:
March 2020
Authors:
Gibbs, A., Harrington, S., Robinson, C, Brooks, C. Dedman, C.
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The current study examined the experiences of Australian and New Zealand professionals who have attended fetal alcohol spectrum disorder (FASD)-specific training and the impact of this training on their current practices. Publication: Journal of

Page last updated 2 March 2021

We aimed to identify and map child health services in the very remote Fitzroy Valley, West Kimberley, and document barriers to effective service delivery. Publication: BMC Health Services Research Date: 2019 Authors: Doesstor, PJ, Thorburn, K, Oscar

Page last updated 2 March 2021

This study aimed to describe neurodevelopmental outcomes among a cohort of Western Australian infants exposed to maternal methamphetamine use during pregnancy and to determine whether the Ages and Stages Questionnaire is a reliable screening tool

Page last updated 2 March 2021

The population-based (Lililwan) study of FASD revealed a high prevalence of FASD in the remote communities of the Fitzroy Valley, Western Australia (WA) and confirmed anecdotal reports from families and teachers that challenging child behaviours

Page last updated 2 March 2021