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Gaceta Sanitaria
Print version ISSN 0213-9111
Abstract
MENDOZA, Ramón et al. Health advice on alcohol consumption in pregnant women in Seville (Spain). Gac Sanit [online]. 2020, vol.34, n.5, pp.449-458. Epub Feb 15, 2021. ISSN 0213-9111. https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.gaceta.2018.11.008.
Objective
To analyse to what extent pregnant women remembered having received health advice regarding alcohol consumption during pregnancy, what the message they perceived was and whether there is social inequality in this regard.
Method
A cross-sectional descriptive study was performed with a sample of 426 pregnant women (in their 20th week of pregnancy) receiving care in the outpatient clinics of a university hospital in a southern Spanish city (Seville). The data were collected through face-to-face structured interviews carried out by trained health professionals.
Results
43% of the interviewed women stated that they had not received any health advice in this regard. Only 43.5% of the sample remembered having received the correct message (not to consume any alcohol at all during pregnancy) from their midwife, 25% from their obstetrician and 20.3% from their general practitioner. The women with a low educational level were those who least declared having received health advice on the issue.
Conclusion
The recommended health advice to avoid alcohol consumption during pregnancy does not effectively reach a large proportion of pregnant women. Developing institutional programmes which help healthcare professionals to carry out effective preventive activities of foetal alcohol spectrum disorder is needed.
Keywords : Pregnancy; Alcohol; Foetal alcohol spectrum disorder; Health advice; Prevention; Social inequality.