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RESEARCH IN DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES
Volume 65, Issue -, Pages 114-126Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.ridd.2017.04.001
Keywords
Australian Aboriginal; Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD); Fetal Alcohol Syndrome (FAS); Prenatal alcohol exposure; Child development
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- National Health and Medical Research Council of Australia [1024474]
- Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing (DOHA)
- Australian Government Department of Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs (FaHCSIA)
- Save the Children Australia
- Foundation for Alcohol Research and Education
- National Health and Medical Research Council of Australia Practitioner Fellowships [457084]
- Australian Research Council Future Fellowship [0130007]
- McCusker Clinical Research Fellowship
- National Health and Medical Research Council Research Fellowship [634341]
- Poche Centre for Indigenous Health Fellowship, Sydney School of Public Health, University of Sydney
- Australian Postgraduate Award
- Curtin University Postgraduate Scholarship
- Faculty Postgraduate Award
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Background: Despite multiple risk factors for neurodevelopmental vulnerability, few studies have assessed neurodevelopmental performance of Australian Aboriginal children. An important risk factor for neurodevelopmental vulnerability is prenatal alcohol exposure (PAE), which places children at risk for Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD). Aims: This study assesses neurodevelopment outcomes in a population of Australian Aboriginal children with and without PAE. Methods and procedures: Children born in 2002/2003, and living in the Fitzroy Valley, Western Australia between April 2010 and November 2011, were eligible (N = 134). Sociodemographic and antenatal data, including PAE, were collected by interview with 127/134 (95%) consenting parents/caregivers. Maternal/child medical records were reviewed. Neurodevelopment was assessed by clinicians blinded to PAE in 108/134 (81%) children and diagnoses on the FASD spectrum were assigned. Outcomes and results: Neurodevelopmental disorder was documented in 34/108 children (314.8 per 1000). Any diagnosis on the FASD spectrum was made in 21/108 (194.4 per 1000) children
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