NCT00696085

Fetal Alcohol Damage Prevention Study

Prevention of Fetal Alcohol Damage Using Maternal Blood Markers

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 612 (actual)
• Sponsor: Massachusetts General Hospital · Academic / Other
• Sex: Female
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

The goal of this study was to determine whether a series of blood markers of alcohol use obtained from alcohol using pregnant women could help them to change their behavior.

Detailed description

This study involved screening pregnant women with an alcoholism screening questionnaire and obtaining blood from those women who screened positive and a subset of women who screened negative. Each woman who had blood drawn were informed of their results, educated about alcohol use in pregnancy and had a brief intervention about their alcohol use, if appropriate. They were monitored throughout the pregnancy with additional blood tests obtained, depending upon their stage in pregnancy. After birth the babies were examined for any signs of alcohol exposure.

Conditions

• Fetal Alcohol Syndrome
• Substance Abuse

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Brief motivational intervention	The women who have positive alcohol screening questionnaires and a random sample of women who screen negative are entered into the next phase of the study. They have blood drawn for the markers of alcohol use, are told of the results and are given brief intervention about alcohol use.

Timeline

• Start date: 2004-03-01
• Primary completion: 2008-02-01
• Completion: 2008-02-01
• First posted: 2008-06-12
• Last updated: 2008-06-12

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States