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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2022 Feb 1.
Published in final edited form as: Med Decis Making. 2021 Jun 24;42(2):217–227. doi: 10.1177/0272989X211023203

Table 1:

Strategies to reduce the prevalence of alcohol-exposed pregnancies

Strategy Mechanism to Prevent an Alcohol-Exposed Pregnancy Examples
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.
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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).