ArticlePediatrics2013
Prenatal alcohol exposure and educational achievement in children aged 8-9 years.
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- Prenatal alcohol exposure and associations with physical size, dysmorphology and neurodevelopment: a systematic review and meta-analysis.BMC medicine · 2024Pooled it
- Prevalence and Patterns of Prenatal Alcohol Exposure in Australian Cohort and Cross-Sectional Studies: A Systematic Review of Data Collection Approaches.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Pooled it
- Cognitive and Behavioural Attention in Children with Low-Moderate and Heavy Doses of Prenatal Alcohol Exposure: a Systematic Review and Meta-analysis.Neuropsychology review · 2021Pooled it
- Prenatal Alcohol Exposure Predicts Academic Outcomes from Childhood to Adolescence: A Prospective Longitudinal Study Based on Meconium Ethyl Glucuronide.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Clinical Features of Typically Developing Children with and without Prenatal Alcohol Exposure.The Journal of pediatrics · 2025Article
- Cognitive Processes Influencing Written Sentence Construction in School-Aged Children With Prenatal Alcohol Exposure.Psychology in the schools · 2025Article
- Altered markers of brain metabolism and excitability are associated with executive functioning in young children exposed to alcohol in utero.Metabolic brain disease · 2024Article
- Low to Moderate Prenatal Alcohol Exposure and Neurodevelopmental Outcomes: A Narrative Review and Methodological Considerations.Alcohol research : current reviews · 2023Review
- Arcuate fasciculus and pre-reading language development in children with prenatal alcohol exposure.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2023Article
- Dose-Related Reduction in Hippocampal Neuronal Populations in Fetal Alcohol Exposed Vervet Monkeys.Brain sciences · 2022Article
- Distinctive neural correlates of phonological and reading impairment in fetal alcohol-exposed adolescents with and without facial dysmorphology.Neuropsychologia · 2022Article
- Maternal drinking and smoking. Can it explain the exceptional academic performance of LBOTE children? A preliminary analysis.BMC research notes · 2021Article
- Prenatal alcohol exposure affects renal function in overweight schoolchildren: birth cohort analysis.Pediatric nephrology (Berlin, Germany) · 2020Article
- Korean mothers' alcohol consumption trajectories from childbirth to 6 years postpartum and children's executive function difficulties at first grade.Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology · 2020Article
- Preliminary Findings that a Targeted Intervention Leads to Altered Brain Function in Children with Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder.Brain sciences · 2017Article
- Maternal alcohol disorders and school achievement: a population cohort record linkage study in Western Australia.BMJ open · 2017Article
- Academic Difficulties in Children with Prenatal Alcohol Exposure: Presence, Profile, and Neural Correlates.Alcoholism, clinical and experimental research · 2017Article
- Parental alcohol-related disorders and school performance in 16-year-olds-a Swedish national cohort study.Addiction (Abingdon, England) · 2016Article
- THE EFFECT OF LOW TO MODERATE PRENATAL ALCOHOL EXPOSURE AND BINGE DRINKING EPISODES ON DRAW-A-PERSON AT AGE 5 YEARS.Medical research archives · 2015Article
- "It's better for me to drink, at least the stress is going away": perspectives on alcohol use during pregnancy among South African women attending drinking establishments.Social science & medicine (1982) · 2014Article
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Abstract
objectiveThis study examines the relationships between the dose, pattern, and timing of prenatal alcohol exposure and achievement in reading, writing, spelling, and numeracy in children aged 8 to 9 years.
methodsData from a randomly selected, population-based birth cohort of infants born to non-Indigenous women in Western Australia between 1995 and 1997 (n = 4714) (Randomly Ascertained Sample of Children born in Australia's Largest State Study cohort) were linked to the Western Australian Midwives' Notification System and the Western Australian Literacy and Numeracy Assessment statewide education testing program. The records for 86% (n = 4056) of the cohort were successfully linked with education records when the children were aged 8 to 9 years. The associations between prenatal alcohol exposure and achievement of national benchmarks in school numeracy, reading, spelling, and writing tests and nonattendance for the tests was examined. Logistic regression was used to generate adjusted odds ratios (aOR) and 95% confidence intervals (CI), adjusting for potential confounding factors. The referent group included children of mothers who previously drank alcohol but who abstained during pregnancy.
resultsChildren were twice as likely not to achieve the benchmark for reading after heavy prenatal alcohol exposure during the first trimester (aOR 2.26; 95% CI 1.10-4.65) and for writing when exposed to occasional binge drinking in late pregnancy (aOR 2.35; 95% CI 1.04-5.43). Low-moderate prenatal alcohol exposure was not associated with academic underachievement.
conclusionsThe type of learning problems expressed depends on the dose, pattern, and timing of prenatal alcohol exposure.
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