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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.
Page last updated 20 April 2023

This review paper gives a comprehensive overview of FASD research globally. This paper includes a review of: international prevalence of FASD and FASD; the mechanisms and pathophysiology of prenatal alcohol exposure; diagnosis, screening and prevention; management; quality of life; and outlook.

Date:
February 2023
Journal name:
Nature Reviews Disease Primer
Authors:
Svetlana Popova, Michael E. Charness, Larry Burd, Andi Crawford, H. Eugene Hoyme, Raja Mukherjee, Edward Riley, Elizabeth Elliott.
Page last updated 28 February 2023

This study explored whether exposure to either an ‘ambiguous consumption’ prototype (no amount of alcohol specified) or a ‘small consumption’ prototype (‘small’ amount of alcohol specified) had an impact on prototype perceptions of, and willingness to use, small amounts of alcohol during pregnancy.

Date:
November 2022
Journal name:
Health Psychology and Behavioral Medicine
Authors:
Tess Fletcher, Barbara Mullan, Amy Finlay-Jones.
Page last updated 9 December 2022

This study investigates where pregnant women obtain information about alcohol use in pregnancy and the relationship between the information source used and women's demographic characteristics and alcohol use.

Date:
July 2022
Journal name:
Drug and Alcohol Review
Authors:
Tracey W. Tsang, Melanie Kingsland, Emma Doherty, Amy E. Anderson, Belinda Tully, Sarah Ward, John Wiggers, Elizabeth E. Elliott.
Page last updated 15 March 2023

This study explored whether the effectiveness of practice change intervention on provision of antenatal care addsing alcohol consumpmption differed between subgroups of pregnant women and types and location of maternity services. These exploratory results suggest that the intervention may have had similar effects between different subgroups of women and types and location of services, with the exception of women who were non-Aboriginal and women who had not consumed alcohol, for whom the intervention was potentially more effective.

Date:
December 2022
Journal name:
Midwifery
Authors:
Emma Doherty, John Wiggers, Luke Wolfenden, Belinda Tully, Christophe Lecathelinais, John Atti, Elizabeth J Elliott, Adrian Dunlop, Ian Symonds, Chris Rissel, Tracey W Tsang, Melanie Kingsland
Page last updated 10 November 2022

This book chapter gives an overview of the past two decades of Australian FASD research, from fiction to fact to challenges of the future.

Date:
September 2022
Book name:
Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder
Chapter title:
Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder in Australia: From Fiction to Fact and to the Future
Authors:
Elizabeth Elliott, Carol Bower
Page last updated 7 March 2023

This systematic review of qualitative studies involving pregnant and recently postpartum women seeks to understand the barriers and facilitators that influence alcohol use in pregnancy. Social relationships and norms, stigma, trauma and other stressors, alcohol information and messaging, and access to trusted equitable care and essential resources were identified as themes that impact women's alcohol use, abstention and reduction.

Date:
March 2021
Journal name:
International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
Authors:
Vivian Lyall, Lindsay Wolfson, Natasha Reid, Nancy Poole, Karen M Moritz, Sonya Egert, Annette J Brown , Deborah A Askew.
Page last updated 31 October 2022

This study aims to identify behavioural, normative and control beliefs regarding alcohol use during pregnancy among a sample of women using the theory of planned behaviour as a theoretical framework.

Date:
October 2021
Journal name:
Psychology and Health
Authors:
Tess M D Fletcher, Barbara Mullan, Elizaveta Novoradovskaya, Amy Finlay-Jones.
Page last updated 31 October 2022

Prenatal alcohol exposure (PAE) is associated with a range of adverse offspring neurodevelopmental outcomes. Several studies suggest that PAE modifies DNA methylation in offspring cells and tissues, providing evidence for a potential mechanistic link to Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD). This paper systematically reviewed existing evidence on the extent to which maternal alcohol use during pregnancy is associated with offspring DNA methylation.

Date:
January 2022
Journal name:
Clinical Epigenetics
Authors:
Mitchell Bestry, Martyn Symons , Alexander Larcombe, Evelyne Muggli, Jeffrey M Craig , Delyse Hutchinson, Jane Halliday, David Martino.
Page last updated 10 November 2022

The beverage alcohol industry (manufacture, marketing, distribution, and retail) is often seen as playing a role in FASD prevention strategies such as health warning labels. This paper explores the nature of the relationship between the industry and prevention programming. The study considers the place of alcohol in society; the prevalence, social and economic costs of FASD; the ethical notion of alcohol-related harm and then move onto the question of public health partnerships with the industry including the potential conflicts of interests and ethical challenges in such partnerships. Two case studies drawn from Canadian, Australian and New Zealand contexts are presented.

Date:
June 2022
Journal name:
International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
Authors:
Peter Choate, Dorothy Badry, Kerryn Bagley
Page last updated 31 October 2022