ArticleInternational journal of environmental research and public health2019
The Potential for Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder Prevention of a Harmonized Approach to Data Collection about Alcohol Use in Pregnancy Cohort Studies.
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- 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
- "The Problem Is that We Hear a Bit of Everything…": A Qualitative Systematic Review of Factors Associated with Alcohol Use, Reduction, and Abstinence in Pregnancy.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021Pooled it
- CDEMapper: enhancing National Institutes of Health common data element use with large language models.Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA · 2025Article
- Using Planned and Unplanned Adaptation to Implement Universal Alcohol Screening and Brief Intervention to Prevent Alcohol-Exposed Pregnancies in Four Primary Care Health Systems.Substance use & addiction journal · 2025Article
- Identifying Patients at Risk for Alcohol-Exposed Pregnancies: The Importance of Addressing Multiple Risk Factors.Substance use & addiction journal · 2025Article
- A Population-Based Study on Women Who Used Alcohol during Pregnancy and Their Neonates in Ontario, Canada.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- A harmonized analysis of five Canadian pregnancy cohort studies: exploring the characteristics and pregnancy outcomes associated with prenatal alcohol exposure.BMC pregnancy and childbirth · 2023Article
- Fetal alcohol spectrum disorders.Nature reviews. Disease primers · 2023Review
- Screening for Alcohol Use in Pregnancy: a Review of Current Practices and Perspectives.International journal of mental health and addiction · 2023Article
- Cohort Profile: Research Advancement through Cohort Cataloguing and Harmonization (ReACH).International journal of epidemiology · 2021Article
- Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders: Fixing Our Aim to Aim for the Fix.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2019Article
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Abstract
Prenatal alcohol exposure is a leading cause of disability, and a major public health concern in Canada. There are well-documented barriers for women and for service providers related to asking about alcohol use in pregnancy. Confidential research is important for learning about alcohol use before, during and after pregnancy, in order to inform fetal alcohol spectrum disorder (FASD) prevention strategies. The Research Advancement through Cohort Cataloguing and Harmonization (ReACH) initiative provides a unique opportunity to leverage the integration of the Canadian pregnancy and birth cohort information regarding women's drinking during pregnancy. In this paper, we identify: The data that can be collected using formal validated alcohol screening tools; the data currently collected through Canadian provincial/territorial perinatal surveillance efforts; and the data currently collected in the research context from 12 pregnancy cohorts in the ReACH Catalogue. We use these findings to make recommendations for data collection about women's alcohol use by future pregnancy cohorts, related to the frequency and quantity of alcohol consumed, the number of drinks consumed on an occasion, any alcohol consumption before pregnancy, changes in use since pregnancy recognition, and the quit date. Leveraging the development of a Canadian standard to measure alcohol consumption is essential to facilitate harmonization and co-analysis of data across cohorts, to obtain more accurate data on women's alcohol use and also to inform FASD prevention strategies.
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