Trial reportJournal of substance abuse treatment
A randomized trial comparing telephone versus in-person brief intervention to reduce the risk of an alcohol-exposed pregnancy.
Trial report in Journal of substance abuse treatment. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 19 papers, 3 of them syntheses that pooled it.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
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Who cites it
19 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- The Elephant in the Room: A Systematic Review of the Application and Effects of Psychological Treatments for Pregnant Women with Dual Pathology (Mental Health and Substance-Related Disorders).International journal of environmental research and public health · 2024Pooled it
- The Universal and Primary Prevention of Foetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders (FASD): A Systematic Review.Journal of prevention (2022) · 2022Pooled it
- Community Education and Engagement in Family Planning: Updated Systematic Review.American journal of preventive medicine · 2018Pooled it
- A Pilot RCT of an Internet Intervention to Reduce the Risk of Alcohol-Exposed Pregnancy.Alcoholism, clinical and experimental research · 2018Trial
- Intervention Models and Behaviour Change Techniques to Reduce the Risk of Alcohol Exposed Pregnancies: A Systematic Review of Interventions for Non-pregnant Women.Journal of prevention (2022) · 2026Review
- Linking Reductions in Alcohol and Birth Control Use Risk Behavior to Prevention of Alcohol-Exposed Pregnancy: A Population-Level Simulation of Preconceptual Prevention Programs.Alcohol, clinical & experimental research · 2026Article
- A randomized controlled trial of Native CHOICES: Impact on alcohol-exposed pregnancy risk reduction among American Indian and Alaska Native women.Alcohol, clinical & experimental research · 2025Article
- A virtual randomized controlled trial of an alcohol-exposed pregnancy prevention mobile app with urban American Indian and Alaska Native young women: Native WYSE CHOICES rationale, design, and methods.Contemporary clinical trials · 2023Article
- Reducing Prenatal Alcohol Exposure and the Incidence of FASD: Is the Past Prologue?Alcohol research : current reviews · 2023Review
- Where there's a will, there's a way? Strategies to reduce or abstain from alcohol use developed by Northern Plains American Indian women participating in a brief, alcohol-exposed pregnancy preconceptual intervention.Alcoholism, clinical and experimental research · 2021Article
- The Distribution of Available Prevention and Management Interventions for Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (2007 to 2017): Implications for Collaborative Actions.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2019Review
- Integrated Brief Intervention for PTSD and Substance Use in an Antepartum Unit.Maternal and child health journal · 2019Article
- The Importance of Intimate Partner Violence in Within-Relationship and Between-Person Risk for Alcohol-Exposed Pregnancy.Alcoholism, clinical and experimental research · 2019Article
- Sex and gender differences in substance use disorders.Clinical psychology review · 2018Review
- Impact of the CHOICES Intervention in Preventing Alcohol-Exposed Pregnancies in American Indian Women.Alcoholism, clinical and experimental research · 2017Article
- Substance use during pregnancy.F1000Research · 2016Review
- Substance Use in the Perinatal Period.Current psychiatry reports · 2015Review
- The national alcohol helpline in Sweden: an evaluation of its first year.Substance abuse treatment, prevention, and policy · 2014Article
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Authors and funding
6 authors.
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Abstract
Brief, effective interventions are needed to reduce the risk of an alcohol-exposed pregnancy in women who drink and do not use effective contraception. The Healthy Choices study compared telephone and in-person administration of a brief intervention. In addition to indicators of alcohol use and effective contraception, compliance with the intervention was examined. Women between the ages of 18 and 44 who were drinking above recommended levels and not using effective contraception were randomly assigned to either a telephone (n=68) or in-person (n=63) brief (two sessions) intervention. Overall, participants showed small but significant reductions in alcohol use and larger increases in effective use of contraception. Risk of alcohol-exposed pregnancy was thus significantly reduced, largely due to improved contraception with minor reductions in alcohol use. There was no significant difference in success of the intervention between the two conditions (telephone versus in-person). These findings suggest telephone-based brief intervention may be equally successful and cost-effective in reducing the risk of an alcohol-exposed pregnancy and thus fetal alcohol syndrome.
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