Maternal alcohol use disorder and child school attendance outcomes for non-Indigenous and Indigenous children in Western Australia: a population cohort record linkage study.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

Examine the relationship between maternal alcohol use disorder and child school attendance outcomes for non-Indigenous and Indigenous children in Western Australia.

Design

Population cohort study.

Setting

Routinely collected linked administrative health, education and child protection data.

Participants

Those in-scope for the study were women with a birth recorded on the Western Australian Midwives Notification System (1989-2007). Women who had an alcohol-related diagnosis (International Classification of Diseases Revisions 9/10) recorded on the Hospital Morbidity, Mental Health Inpatients and Outpatients, and Drug and Alcohol Office data sets formed the exposed group. The comparison cohort was frequency-matched to the exposed cohort based on materna

SUBMITTER: Hafekost K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5734575 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature