Table 1:
Strategy | Mechanism to Prevent an Alcohol-Exposed Pregnancy | Examples | ||||
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Urging women of reproductive age to: | ||||||
Use effective contraceptive# if: | Use pregnancy test within a week of a missed period if: | Abstain from drinking if: | ||||
Not seeking pregnancy | Have been sexually active in the past month | Pregnant | Trying to become pregnant | Not using contraceptive with sex | ||
A | X | Strategies to avert unintended pregnancies (e.g., family planning services [25], and school-based health education programs [26].) | ||||
B | X | Strategies to expand access to pregnancy tests | ||||
C | X | X | Strategies to implement the 2005 U.S. Surgeon General’s Advisory [14] | |||
D | X | X | X | Strategies to implement the 2016 CDC’s recommendation [15] | ||
E | X | X | X | Integrated efforts to prevent unintended pregnancies and promote alcohol abstinence during pregnancy and while seeking pregnancy. | ||
F | X | X | X | X | Combining Strategies B and E. |
We defined an effective contraceptive method as a method with lower than 10% probability of unintended pregnancy after one year of use (see Table S3 in the Supplementary Material).