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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
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
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
This study examines the effect of practice change intervention to support the implementation of guideline-recommended care for addressing alcohol use in pregnancy on self-reported alcohol use during pregnancy through a randomised, stepped-wedge controlled trial within the Hunger New England Local Health District (NSW, Australia).
- Date:
- August 2022
- Journal name:
- Substance Abuse Treatment, Prevention, and Policy
- Authors:
- Tracey W. Tsang, Melanie Kingsland, Emma Doherty, John Wiggers, John Attia,Luke Wolfenden, Adrian Dunlop, Belinda Tully, Ian Symonds, Chris Rissel, Christophe Lecathelinais, Elizabeth J. Elliott
Influencing and implementing mandatory alcohol pregnancy warning labels in Australia and New Zealand
Alcohol labelling laws and policy are contentious and highly politicized. Very few countries have been able to implement health warnings on alcohol labels due to complex legal and governance systems and coordinated industry lobbying. In 2020, Australia and New Zealand implemented a mandatory and evidence-based legal standard for pregnancy warning labels on alcohol products. This article discusses some of the challenges faced in achieving policy change and how these barriers were overcome by public health advocacy groups to build the evidence, counter industry conflicts of interest, consumer test health messages, mobilize community support and gather political support.
- Date:
- April 2022
- Journal name:
- Health Promotion International
- Authors:
- Maddie Heenan, Janani Shanthosh, Katherine Cullerton, Stephen Jan.
The preconception period provides a unique opportunity to optimize the health of women and children. High rates of alcohol use and unintended pregnancies are common across many Western societies and alcohol exposed pregnancies (AEPs) are a possible unintended outcome. The aim of the current study published in 2021 was to evaluate preconception interventions for the prevention of AEPs.
- Date:
- September 2021
- Journal name:
- Alcoholism Clinical and Experimental Research
- Authors:
- N Reid, L Schölin, M Erng, A Montag, J Hansen, L Smith
Prevention approaches specific to prenatal alcohol exposure (PAE) and foetal alcohol spectrum disorder (FASD) have been identified as urgently needed in Australia, including in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities. However, very little work has aimed to describe and evaluate health promotion initiatives, especially those developed in rural and remote areas. The results of the work in Alice Springs was published in 2021.
- Date:
- October 2021
- Journal name:
- Health Promotion Journal of Australia
- Authors:
- Donna Lemon, Justine Swan-Castine, Elizabeth Connor, Fleur van Dooren, Jenna Pauli, John Boffa, James Fitzpatrick, Rebecca Anne Pedruzzi
To determine whether social networking site posts can be used as a source of feedback during public consultation for guidelines, the authors aimed to collect posts on social networking sites (Twitter and Reddit) related to the Australian alcohol guidelines. They aimed to identify: (i) which guideline recommendations the public were interested in (and discussed most), (ii) whether social networking site posts provides feedback that could be used for public consultation for guidelines, and (iii) any misinterpretations. The outcomes of this study were published in 2021.
- Date:
- February 2021
- Journal name:
- Medical Journal of Australia 214(3) (pp105-107)
- Authors:
- Riordan B.C.; Winter D.T.; Haber P.S.; Day C.A.; Morley K.C.
The study published in 2020 identified where Australian women obtained information about alcohol during pregnancy, their preferred sources of information, and their perceptions of the role of health professionals in providing information.
- Date:
- November 2020
- Journal name:
- Fetal Alcohol Syndrome Risk & Prevention
- Authors:
- Tracey Tsang Elizabeth Peadon Carol Bower Heather D'Antoine Jan Payne Elizabeth Elliott
In September 2019, an inquiry was referred to the Senate Community Affairs References Committee into effective approaches to prevention and diagnosis of FASD and strategies for optimising life outcomes for people living with FASD. The final outcomes of the senate inquiry were released in March 2021.