Is <scp>TWEAK</scp> a valid screening questionnaire to identify alcohol risk drinkers among pregnant women in Denmark?

Præstegaard, Camilla; Kesmodel, Pia Schiøler; Kesmodel, Ulrik Schiøler

doi:10.1111/aogs.13314

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“…There are alcohol screening tools that have been validated with pregnant women such as the T-ACE [42], TWEAK [43,44], and 4Ps [45] which identify indicators of problems associated with alcohol use, and use by friends and family that may influence a women’s alcohol consumption. Some researchers question the usefulness of such approaches [35].…”

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The Potential for Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder Prevention of a Harmonized Approach to Data Collection about Alcohol Use in Pregnancy Cohort Studies

Poole

Schmidt

Bocking

et al. 2019

IJERPH

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Prenatal alcohol exposure is a leading cause of disability, and a major public health concern in Canada. There are well-documented barriers for women and for service providers related to asking about alcohol use in pregnancy. Confidential research is important for learning about alcohol use before, during and after pregnancy, in order to inform fetal alcohol spectrum disorder (FASD) prevention strategies. The Research Advancement through Cohort Cataloguing and Harmonization (ReACH) initiative provides a unique opportunity to leverage the integration of the Canadian pregnancy and birth cohort information regarding women’s drinking during pregnancy. In this paper, we identify: The data that can be collected using formal validated alcohol screening tools; the data currently collected through Canadian provincial/territorial perinatal surveillance efforts; and the data currently collected in the research context from 12 pregnancy cohorts in the ReACH Catalogue. We use these findings to make recommendations for data collection about women’s alcohol use by future pregnancy cohorts, related to the frequency and quantity of alcohol consumed, the number of drinks consumed on an occasion, any alcohol consumption before pregnancy, changes in use since pregnancy recognition, and the quit date. Leveraging the development of a Canadian standard to measure alcohol consumption is essential to facilitate harmonization and co-analysis of data across cohorts, to obtain more accurate data on women’s alcohol use and also to inform FASD prevention strategies.

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The Potential for Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder Prevention of a Harmonized Approach to Data Collection about Alcohol Use in Pregnancy Cohort Studies

Poole

Schmidt

Bocking

et al. 2019

IJERPH

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“…There have been mixed results regarding the use of the TWEAK screening tool in different countries. In Denmark, the TWEAK was found to be useful when identifying high-risk drinking during pregnancy (Praestegaard et al, 2018). When screening for alcohol use disorder (AUD) among pregnant women in Argentina, the TWEAK was found to have low reliability and did not perform as well as the AUDIT in this setting (Lopez et al, 2017).…”

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Screening for Alcohol Use in Pregnancy: a Review of Current Practices and Perspectives

Dozet

Burd

Popova

2021

Int J Ment Health Addiction

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Global trends of increasing alcohol consumption among women of childbearing age, social acceptability of women’s alcohol use, as well as recent changes in alcohol use patterns due to the COVID-19 pandemic may put many pregnancies at higher risk for prenatal alcohol exposure (PAE), which can cause fetal alcohol spectrum disorder (FASD). Therefore, screening of pregnant women for alcohol use has become more important than ever and should be a public health priority. This narrative review presents the state of the science on various existing prenatal alcohol use screening strategies, including the clinical utility of validated alcohol use screening instruments. It also discusses barriers for alcohol use screening in pregnancy, such as practitioner constraints, unplanned pregnancies, delayed access to prenatal care, and stigma associated with substance use in pregnancy, providing recommendations to address these barriers. By implementing consistent alcohol use screening, prenatal care providers have the opportunity to facilitate access to counseling and brief interventions and thus, to prevent new cases of FASD and improve maternal and child health.

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“…Authors: Henriette Kyrrestad & Sabine Kaiser Documentation and literature: The literature search identified 19 articles, of which two were included in the evaluation (Praestegaard et al, 2018;Weile et al, 2020).…”

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he First 1000 Days in the Nordic Countries: Psychosocial Interventions and Psychological Tests: A Review of the Evidence

Breivik¹,

Eng²,

Kaiser³

et al. 2021

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Is TWEAK a valid screening questionnaire to identify alcohol risk drinkers among pregnant women in Denmark?

Abstract: In a Danish setting, TWEAK does not seem as an optimal screening tool to identify periconceptional risk drinkers but it may be useful in identifying high-risk drinking during pregnancy.

Cited by 12 publications

References 26 publications

The Potential for Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder Prevention of a Harmonized Approach to Data Collection about Alcohol Use in Pregnancy Cohort Studies

The Potential for Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder Prevention of a Harmonized Approach to Data Collection about Alcohol Use in Pregnancy Cohort Studies

Screening for Alcohol Use in Pregnancy: a Review of Current Practices and Perspectives

he First 1000 Days in the Nordic Countries: Psychosocial Interventions and Psychological Tests: A Review of the Evidence

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