Maternal alcohol disorders and school achievement: a population cohort record linkage study in Western Australia.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Maternal alcohol use disorder is a risk factor for a range of developmental outcomes in children. This study examines school achievement in children of Indigenous and non-Indigenous mothers with an alcohol-related diagnosis.

Design, setting and participants

This is a Western Australian population cohort study of mothers with a record of an alcohol-related diagnosis classified by the International Classification of Diseases Revisions 9/10 codes as recorded on administrative databases, and of their offspring born between 1989 and 2007 (n=18 486 exposed children), with a frequency matched comparison cohort of mothers with no record of alcohol diagnosis and their offspring (n=48 262 comparison children).

Outcomes

Records were linked with school achievement data

SUBMITTER: Johnson SE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5623360 | biostudies-literature | 2017 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature