Improving Recognition of Children Affected by Prenatal Alcohol Exposure: Detection of Exposure in Pediatric Care

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• Alternative Title:
  Curr Dev Disord Rep
• Personal Author:
  Bax, Ami C. ; Geurts, Carrie D. ; Balachova, Tatiana N.
• Description:
  Early identification of fetal alcohol spectrum disorders (FASDs) is important for providing services and preventing secondary disabilities. Recent studies indicate that many FASDs are undiagnosed, partly because there is a need to improve detection of prenatal alcohol exposure (PAE). The aims of this review are to characterize existing practices for assessing PAE in pediatric care, identify the most efficient, promising methods of detecting PAE, and recognize the knowledge and practice gaps. This review indicates that maternal self-reports remain the most common method utilized in routine clinical practice and highlights promising methods of PAE identification, including a single binge drinking question. The review yields few studies describing existing strategies to assess PAE in pediatric practice and identifies knowledge gaps that need to be addressed for improving recognition of FASDs in pediatric practice.
• Keywords:
  Alcohol Use Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders Fetal Alcohol Syndrome Neurobehavioral Disorder Associated With Prenatal Alcohol Exposure (ND-PAE) Pregnancy Prenatal Alcohol Exposure Women
• Source:
  Curr Dev Disord Rep. 2(3):165-174
• Pubmed ID:
  26317063
• Pubmed Central ID:
  PMC4547360
• Document Type:
  Journal Article
• Funding:
  R01 AA016234/AA/NIAAA NIH HHSUnited States/ ; U84 DD000884/DD/NCBDD CDC HHSUnited States/
• Volume:
  2
• Issue:
  3
• Collection(s):
  CDC Public Access
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:cceb9a88d5971eb98d5c576377863a5d693f37a038ca1c84326b88a83b906bd8
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/42067/cdc_42067_DS1.pdf
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