An environmental scan of impacts and interventions for women with methamphetamine use in pregnancy and their children.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Indigenous women are overrepresented among people who use (PWU) methamphetamine (MA) due to colonialism and intergenerational trauma. Prenatal methamphetamine exposure (PME) is increasing as the number of PWUMA of childbearing age grows. Yet impacts of MA in pregnancy and effective interventions are not yet well understood.

Objective

We conducted an environmental scan of published and grey literature (2010-2020) to determine effects of MA use in pregnancy for mothers and their offspring, effective interventions and implications for Indigenous women.

Search strategy

A strategic search of Ovid Medline, Embase, ProQuest-Public Health and CINAHL databases identified academic literature, while Google and ProQuest-Public Health identified grey literature.

Sele

SUBMITTER: Ackerman M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9291965 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature