Raymond Neil, Beer Charlotte, Glazebrook Cristine, Sayal Kapil
Division of Psychiatry, School of Community Health Sciences, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK.
BMC Public Health. 2009 Jun 5;9:175. doi: 10.1186/1471-2458-9-175.
There is uncertainty as to whether there is a safe threshold for drinking alcohol during pregnancy. We explored pregnant women's attitudes towards drinking alcohol in pregnancy and their attitudes towards sources of information about drinking in pregnancy following recent changes in UK government guidance.
A qualitative study involving individual, semi-structured interviews with 20 pregnant women recruited from community organisations in the UK. Interview transcripts were analysed qualitatively using thematic analysis.
Most women found information and advice about safe levels of drinking in pregnancy confusing and lacking in evidence and detail. Although most women considered that there were risks involved with drinking in pregnancy and these perceptions influenced their behaviour, only six women reported abstinence. Women reported being influenced by advice from family and friends and their experiences of previous pregnancies. Many had received no individual advice from general practitioners or midwives relating to drinking during pregnancy.
Pregnant women wished to take responsibility for their own health and make choices based on informed advice. In order to do so, they require clear and consistent advice about safe levels of drinking from policy makers and health professionals. This is an important issue as women might drink socially during their pregnancy.
孕期饮酒是否存在安全阈值尚无定论。在英国政府指南近期发生变化后，我们探讨了孕妇对孕期饮酒的态度以及她们对孕期饮酒信息来源的态度。
一项定性研究，对从英国社区组织招募的20名孕妇进行了个人半结构化访谈。访谈记录采用主题分析法进行定性分析。
大多数女性发现关于孕期安全饮酒水平的信息和建议令人困惑，缺乏证据和细节。尽管大多数女性认为孕期饮酒存在风险，且这些观念影响了她们的行为，但只有6名女性报告戒酒。女性报告称受到家人和朋友的建议以及她们之前怀孕经历的影响。许多人没有从全科医生或助产士那里得到关于孕期饮酒的个人建议。
孕妇希望对自己的健康负责，并在获得充分信息的建议基础上做出选择。为了做到这一点，她们需要政策制定者和健康专业人员提供关于安全饮酒水平的明确且一致的建议。这是一个重要问题，因为女性在孕期可能会社交性饮酒。
