FAS Project-Related Publications

Project CHOICES 

Floyd RL, Sobell M, Velasquez M, Ingersoll K, et al. Preventing alcohol-exposed pregnancies: a randomized controlled trial. American Journal of Preventive Medicine 2007;32(1):1-10. [Abstract]

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Motivational intervention to reduce alcohol-exposed pregnancies - Florida, Texas, and Virginia, 1997-2001. Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report 2003;52(19):441-444. [Full text]

Project CHOICES Intervention Research Group. Reducing the risk of alcohol-exposed pregnancies: A study of a motivational intervention in community settings. Pediatrics 2003;111(5):1131-1135. [Abstract]

Project CHOICES Research Group. Alcohol-exposed pregnancy: Characteristics associated with risk. American Journal of Preventive Medicine 2002;23(3):166-173. [Abstract]

Project BALANCE 

Ingersoll KS, Ceperich SD, Nettleman MD, Karanda K, Brocksen S, Johnson BA. Reducing alcohol-exposed pregnancy risk in college women: Initial outcomes of a clinical trial of a motivational intervention. Journal of Substance Abuse Treatment 2005;29:173-180. [Abstract]

Intervening with Children and/or Adolescents with Fetal Alcohol Syndrome or Alcohol-Related Neurodevelopmental Disorders

Kable JA, Coles CD, Taddeo E. Socio-cognitive habilitation using the math interactive learning experience program for alcohol-affected children. Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research 2007;31(8):1425-1434. [Abstract]

Frankel F, Paley B, Marquardt R, O'Connor M. Stimulants, neuroleptics, and children's friendship training for children with fetal alcohol spectrum disorders. Journal of Child and Adolescent Psychopharmacology 2006;16(6):777-789. [Abstract]

O’Connor MJ, Frankel F, Paley B, Schonfeld AM, Carpenter E, Laugeson EA, Marquardt R. A controlled social skills training for children with fetal alcohol spectrum disorders. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology 2006;74(4):639-648. [Abstract]

O’Connor MJ, Paley B. The relationship of prenatal alcohol exposure and the postnatal environment to child depressing symptoms. Journal of Pediatric Psychology 2006;31(1):50-64. [Abstract]

Schonfeld AM, Paley B, Frankel F, O’Connor MJ. Executive functioning predicts social skills following prenatal alcohol exposure. Child Neuropsychology 2006;12(6):439-452. [Abstract]

Paley B, O'Connor MJ, Frankel F, Marquardt R. Predictors of stress in parents of children with fetal alcohol spectrum disorders. Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics 2006;27(5):396-404. [Abstract]

Paley B, O’Connor MJ, Kogan N, Findlay R. Prenatal alcohol exposure, child externalizing behavior, and maternal stress. Parenting Science and Practice 2005;3(1):29-56.

FAS Regional Training Centers

Brimacombe M, Nayeem A, Adubato S, Zimmerman-Bier B. Fetal alcohol syndrome related knowledge assessment and comparison in New Jersey health professional groups. Canadian Journal of Clinical Pharmacology 2008;15(1):e57-65. [Abstract]  

Awopetu O, Brimacombe M, Cohen D. Fetal Alcohol Syndrome Pilot Media Intervention: Essex County, New Jersey, (2008). Canadian Journal of Clinical Pharmacology 2008;15(1):e124-31. [Abstract]

FASD Regional Training Centers Consortium. Educating health professionals about fetal alcohol spectrum disorders. American Journal of Health Education 2007;38(6):364-373.

Rudeen PK, Cook K, Mengel MB, Wedding D, Braddock S, Ohlemiller M. Knowledge and attitudes about FAS, FASD, and alcohol use during pregnancy by occupational therapists in the Midwest. Journal of Allied Health 2007;36(3):e203-220.

Wedding D, Kohout J, Mengel MB, Ohlemiller M, Ulione M, Cook K, Rudeen K, Braddock S. Psychologists' knowledge and attitudes about FAS, FASD, and alcohol use during pregnancy. Professional Psychology: Research & Practice 2007;38(2):208-213.

Gahagan S, Sharpe TT, Brimacombe M, Fry-Johnson Y, Levine R, Mengel M, O’Connor M, Paley B, Adubato S, Brenneman G. Pediatricians’ knowledge, training, and experience in the care of children with fetal alcohol syndrome. Pediatrics 2006;118(3):e657-e668. [Abstract]

Mengel MB, Searight HR, Cook K. Preventing alcohol-exposed pregnancies. Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine 2006;19(5):494-505. [Abstract]

Mengel MB, Ulione M, Cook K, Rudeen K, Braddock S, Ohlemiller M. Midwest family physicians’ knowledge and attitudes about FAS, FASD, and alcohol use during pregnancy.  Journal of FAS International 2006;4:e7. [Abstract].

Baillie S, Paley B, Guiton G, O’Connor M, Stuber M. Weaving in important curricular topics: Using fetal alcohol syndrome as an integrating theme in medical education. Medical Education 2005;39:505.

Brimacombe M, Adubato S, Cohen D, Wilson A, Lamendola M.  Comprehensive approaches to the screening, diagnosis and prevention of fetal alcohol syndrome in New Jersey. Journal of FAS International 2005;3:e4. [Abstract]

Sharpe TT, Alexander M, Hutcherson J, Floyd RL, Brimacombe M, Levine R, Mengel M, Stuber M. Report from the CDC. Physician and allied health professionals' training and fetal alcohol syndrome. Journal of Women's Health 2004;13(2):133-139. [Abstract]  

Increasing Public Awareness of the Risks of Alcohol Use During Pregnancy Through Targeted Media Campaigns

Glik D, Prelip M, Myerson A, Eilers K. Fetal alcohol syndrome prevention using community-based narrowcasting campaigns. Health Promotion Practice 2008;9(1):93-103. [Abstract]

Mengel MB, Ulione M, Wedding D, Jones ET, Shurn D. Increasing FASD knowledge by a targeted media campaign: Outcome determined by message frequency. Journal of FAS International 2005;3(e13):1-14. [Abstract]

Glik DC, Prelip M, Myerson A, Eilers K. Narrowcasting campaign for community programs: creating health messages for targeted media campaign. Los Angeles, CA: UCLA Health and Media Research Group. 2004. http://www.ph.ucla.edu/chs/hmrg/

Baxter LA, Hirokawa R, Lowe JB, Nathan P, Pearce L. Dialogic voices in talk about drinking and pregnancy. Journal of Applied Communication Research 2004;32(3):224-248. [Abstract]

Identifying Alcohol-Exposed Pregnancies through Biomarkers

Bearer CF, Santiago LM, O’Riordan MA, Buck K, Lee S, Singer LT. Fatty acid ethyl esters: Quantitative biomarkers for maternal alcohol consumption. J Pediatr. 2005;146:824-830. [Abstract]

Bearer CF, Stoler JM, Cook JD, Carpenter SJ. Biomarkers of alcohol use in pregnancy. Alcohol Research & Health 2005;1:38-43. [Full text]

Lanphear B, Bearer CF.  Biomarkers in paediatric research and practice. Archives of Disease in Childhood 2005;90:594-600. [Abstract]

Cook JD, O’Kane JL, McArdle P, Yu Y, Owusu R, Squibb KS, Powell JL. The maternal ADH genetic profile as a risk indicator for FAS and FASD. Clin Chem 2004;50:A67.

Stoler JM, Holmes LB. Recognition of facial features of fetal alcohol syndrome in the newborn. American Journal of Medical Genetics Part C (Semin. Med. Genet.) 2004;127C:21-27. [Abstract]

Bearer CF, Jacobson JL, Jacobson SW, Barr D, Croxford J, Molteno CD, Viljoen DL, Marais AS, Chiodo LM, Cwik AS. Validation of a new biomarker of fetal exposure to alcohol. J Pediatr 2003;143(4):463-469. [Abstract] 

Cook JD. Biochemical markers of alcohol use in pregnant women. Clin Biochem 2003;36:9-19. [Abstract]
 

Conducting International Research

Rosenthal J, Christianson A, Cordero J. Fetal alcohol syndrome prevention in South Africa and other low-resource countries. American Journal of Public Health 2005;95(7):1099-1101. [Abstract]

Viljoen D, Craig P, Hymbaugh K, Boyle C. Fetal alcohol syndrome – South Africa, 2001. Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report 2003;52(28):660-662. [Full text]

Kesmodel U, Wisborg K, Olsen SF, Henriksen TB, Secher NJ. Moderate alcohol intake in pregnancy and the risk of spontaneous abortion. Alcohol & Alcoholism 2002;37(1):87-92. [Abstract]
 

Tracking Fetal Alcohol Syndrome

Fox DJ, Druschel CM. Estimating prevalence of fetal alcohol syndrome (FAS): Effectiveness of a passive birth defects registry system. Birth Defects Research (Part A) 2003;67:604-608. [Abstract]

Meaney FJ, Miller LA, FASSNet Team. A comparison of Fetal Alcohol Syndrome Surveillance Network and birth defects surveillance methodology in determining prevalence rates of fetal alcohol syndrome. Birth Defects Research (Part A) 2003;67:819-821. [Abstract]

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Fetal alcohol syndrome --- Alaska, Arizona, Colorado, and New York, 1995--1997. MMWR Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report 2002;51:433-435. [Full Text]

Hymbaugh K, Miller LA, Druschel CM, Podvin DW, Meaney J, Boyle CA, FASSNet Team. A multiple source methodology for the surveillance of fetal alcohol syndrome – the Fetal Alcohol Syndrome Surveillance Network (FASSNet). Teratology 2002;66:S41-S49. [Abstract]
 

Preventing Alcohol-Exposed Pregnancies in Diverse Populations

Chambers CD, Hughes S, Meltzer SB, Wahlgren D, Kassem N, Larson S, Riley EP, Hovell MF. Alcohol consumption among low-income pregnant Latinas. Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research 2005;29(11):2022-2028. [Abstract]
 

Monitoring Alcohol Use Among Women of Childbearing Age

Tsai J, Floyd RL, Green PP, Boyle CA. Patterns and average volume of alcohol use among women of childbearing age. Matern Child Health J. 2007, In press. [Abstract]

Tsai J, Floyd RL, Bertrand J. Tracking binge drinking among U.S. childbearing-age women. Prev Med. 2007;44:298-302. [Abstract]

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Alcohol consumption among women who are pregnant or who might become pregnant—United States, 2002. MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep. 2004;53(50):1178-1181. [Full Text]

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Alcohol use among childbearing-age women—United States, 1991 – 1999. MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep. 2002;51:273-276. [Full Text]

Ebrahim S, Decoufle P, Palakthodi AS. Combined tobacco and alcohol use by pregnant and reproductive-aged women in the U.S. Obstet Gynecol. 2000;96:767-771. [Abstract]

Ebrahim SL, Anderson AL, Floyd RL. Alcohol consumption by reproductive-aged women in the USA: an update on assessment, burden and prevention in the 1990s. Prenatal and Neonatal Medicine. 1999;4:419-430.

Ebrahim SH, Diekman ST, Decoufle P, Tully M, Floyd RL. Pregnancy-related alcohol use among women in the United States, 1988 through 1995. Prenatal and Neonatal Medicine 1999;4:39-46.

Ebrahim SH, Diekman ST, Floyd RL, Decoufle P. Comparison of binge drinking among pregnant and nonpregnant women, United States, 1991-1995. Am J Obstet Gynecol. 1999;180:1-7. [Abstract]

Ebrahim SH, Luman ET, Floyd RL, Murphy CC, Bennett EM, Boyle CA. Alcohol consumption by pregnant women in the United States during 1988-1995. Obstet Gynecol. 1998;92:187-192. [Abstract]

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Alcohol consumption among pregnant and childbearing age women -- United States, 1991 and 1995. MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep. 1997;46(16):346-350. [Full Text]

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Frequent alcohol consumption among women of childbearing age, Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System, 1991. MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep. 1994;43(18):328-329, 335. [Full Text]

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Prevalence and characteristics of alcohol consumption and fetal alcohol syndrome awareness -- Alaska, 1991 and 1993. MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep. 1994;43(1):3-6. [Full Text]
 

National Task Force on Fetal Alcohol Syndrome and Fetal Alcohol Effect 

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Guidelines for identifying and referring persons with fetal alcohol syndrome. Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report Recommendations and Reports 2005;54(RR-11):1-15. [Full Text]

Bertrand J, Floyd RL, Weber MK, O'Connor M, Riley EP, Johnson KA, Cohen DE, NTFFAS/E. Fetal Alcohol Syndrome: Guidelines for Referral and Diagnosis. Atlanta, GA: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; 2004. [Full Text]

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. National Task Force on Fetal Alcohol Syndrome and Fetal Alcohol Effect --- Defining the national agenda for fetal alcohol syndrome and other prenatal alcohol-related effects. MMWR Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report Recommendations and Reports 2002;51(RR14):9-12. [Full Text]