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Warning about drinking during pregnancy: lessons from the French experience
BACKGROUND: In France, since 2007, there is a compulsory warning recommending abstinence during pregnancy on every container of alcohol. Awareness of this warning, which consists of a small pictogram, is unknown. The aim of this study was to assess awareness of the warning and risk perceptions about...
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2018
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5797422/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29394949 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12978-018-0467-x |
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author | Dumas, Agnès Toutain, Stéphanie Hill, Catherine Simmat-Durand, Laurence |
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description | BACKGROUND: In France, since 2007, there is a compulsory warning recommending abstinence during pregnancy on every container of alcohol. Awareness of this warning, which consists of a small pictogram, is unknown. The aim of this study was to assess awareness of the warning and risk perceptions about prenatal drinking in pregnant and postpartum women. METHODS: A cross-sectional survey was carried out by telephone five years after the introduction of the warning label. A total of 3603 pregnant or postpartum French women participated. A quota sampling method was used to ensure the sample reflected the population. Multivariate analyses examined the characteristics associated with knowledge of risks and with awareness of the warning label. RESULTS: The warning label had been noticed by 66.1% of women and 77.3% of drinkers. Of those who had noticed the warning, 98.6% thought that it suggested abstinence. Overall, 40.8% of the women thought that spirits were more harmful than wine or beer, and 8.9% thought that drinking beer was recommended for lactation. CONCLUSION: Awareness of the warning is high but knowledge about the risks associated with wine and beer is poor. PRACTICE IMPLICATIONS: Future information campaigns should educate women about standard drinks and their pure alcohol equivalent. They should emphasize the risks associated with drinking during breastfeeding. |
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spelling | pubmed-57974222018-02-12 Warning about drinking during pregnancy: lessons from the French experience Dumas, Agnès Toutain, Stéphanie Hill, Catherine Simmat-Durand, Laurence Reprod Health Research BACKGROUND: In France, since 2007, there is a compulsory warning recommending abstinence during pregnancy on every container of alcohol. Awareness of this warning, which consists of a small pictogram, is unknown. The aim of this study was to assess awareness of the warning and risk perceptions about prenatal drinking in pregnant and postpartum women. METHODS: A cross-sectional survey was carried out by telephone five years after the introduction of the warning label. A total of 3603 pregnant or postpartum French women participated. A quota sampling method was used to ensure the sample reflected the population. Multivariate analyses examined the characteristics associated with knowledge of risks and with awareness of the warning label. RESULTS: The warning label had been noticed by 66.1% of women and 77.3% of drinkers. Of those who had noticed the warning, 98.6% thought that it suggested abstinence. Overall, 40.8% of the women thought that spirits were more harmful than wine or beer, and 8.9% thought that drinking beer was recommended for lactation. CONCLUSION: Awareness of the warning is high but knowledge about the risks associated with wine and beer is poor. PRACTICE IMPLICATIONS: Future information campaigns should educate women about standard drinks and their pure alcohol equivalent. They should emphasize the risks associated with drinking during breastfeeding. BioMed Central 2018-02-02 /pmc/articles/PMC5797422/ /pubmed/29394949 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12978-018-0467-x Text en © The Author(s). 2018 Open AccessThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated. |
spellingShingle | Research Dumas, Agnès Toutain, Stéphanie Hill, Catherine Simmat-Durand, Laurence Warning about drinking during pregnancy: lessons from the French experience |
title | Warning about drinking during pregnancy: lessons from the French experience |
title_full | Warning about drinking during pregnancy: lessons from the French experience |
title_fullStr | Warning about drinking during pregnancy: lessons from the French experience |
title_full_unstemmed | Warning about drinking during pregnancy: lessons from the French experience |
title_short | Warning about drinking during pregnancy: lessons from the French experience |
title_sort | warning about drinking during pregnancy: lessons from the french experience |
topic | Research |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5797422/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29394949 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12978-018-0467-x |
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