Reducing the Prevalence of Alcohol-Exposed Pregnancies in the United States: A Simulation Modeling Study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Public health efforts to prevent alcohol-exposed pregnancies (AEPs) primarily focus on promoting abstinence from alcohol among women if pregnant or seeking pregnancy and using effective contraception to prevent unintended pregnancies if consuming alcohol. Little is known about how programs to improve adherence to these recommendations would affect the prevalence of AEPs.

Methods

We developed an individual-based simulation model of US women of reproductive age to project the prevalence of AEPs under different public health strategies. The model varies each woman's risk of an AEP over time depending on fertility, contraceptive use, awareness of pregnancy, sexual activity, and drinking patterns. We used the 2013-2015 National Survey on Family Growth data set to param

SUBMITTER: Yaesoubi R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8702569 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature