Does She or Doesn’t She: A Women’s Health Perspective on Alcohol Use in Pregnancy - Pre-Test

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1. Complete this pre-test prior to signing into the webinar training.
2. At the end of the 1 hour webinar training please complete the post-test.
3. Three months after the session you will receive a follow-up email regarding the webinar training. Please
fill it out and submit back to The Arc, so we can determine if/how you implemented the skills learned in
this webinar.

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* 1. Participant Information

Name:

Email Address:

Phone Number:

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* 2. Degrees

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* 3. Which type of health profession do you identify as:

Nurse Midwife

Nurse Practitioner

Registered Nurse

Physician

Physician Assistant

Other (please specify)

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* 4. Do you interact with patients?

Yes

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* 5. What barriers hold you back from discussing alcohol use with your female patients that are pregnant or of child-bearing age?

Time constraints

Not financially reimbursable

Still didn’t have enough training with the Screening and Brief Intervention methods to feel comfortable breaching the topic

Still didn’t have enough resources to feel comfortable breaching the topic

I think it’s someone else’s job to discuss this with the patients

I don’t agree with the data regarding no alcohol at all during pregnancy

None - I discuss alcohol use with all female patients that are pregnant or of child-bearing age

Other (please specify)

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* 6. At what age does USPSTF recommend that physicians start screening adults for alcohol misuse and provide brief behavioral interventions to those who engage in risky drinking?

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* 7. Alcohol dehydrogenase is an enzyme that helps to metabolize alcohol on its first pass through the gastric system. In general, women have about ___ % less of this enzyme than males.

10%

33%

18%

25%

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* 8. Which woman is more likely to be at risk for drinking during pregnancy?

25 year old Hispanic woman, not married, with some college education

27 year old African American woman, married, and smokes

32 year old Caucasian woman, married, and is college educated

None of these woman seem at risk for drinking during pregnancy

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* 9. The TWEAK and T-ACE screening programs both use questions relating to all of the following except:

Tolerance levels for alcohol

Self-examination of your own drinking habits

Other risky behaviors that you previously or currently engage in such as smoking and/or drug use

Outside perspectives (family and/or friends) of your drinking habits

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* 10. To ensure a successful screening and intervention for alcohol use during pregnancy, a physician should ask their patients about alcohol use prior to becoming pregnant, early on in the pregnancy, and continue to do so throughout the pregnancy in different ways to keep reinforcing the message.

True

False

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* 11. Which of the following is not a strategy to ensure a successful screening of alcohol use during a pregnancy?

Ask early, often, and in different ways

Make alcohol screening part of regular check-up routines – address other health issues at the same time

Ask in a warm friendly manner to help build trust between you and the patient instead of a shaming feeling

Have a list of services that are available in your area to refer the woman to

All of the above

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* 1. Participant Information

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* 2. Degrees

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* 3. Which type of health profession do you identify as:

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* 4. Do you interact with patients?

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* 5. What barriers hold you back from discussing alcohol use with your female patients that are pregnant or of child-bearing age?

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* 6. At what age does USPSTF recommend that physicians start screening adults for alcohol misuse and provide brief behavioral interventions to those who engage in risky drinking?

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* 7. Alcohol dehydrogenase is an enzyme that helps to metabolize alcohol on its first pass through the gastric system. In general, women have about ___ % less of this enzyme than males.

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* 8. Which woman is more likely to be at risk for drinking during pregnancy?

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* 9. The TWEAK and T-ACE screening programs both use questions relating to all of the following except:

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* 10. To ensure a successful screening and intervention for alcohol use during pregnancy, a physician should ask their patients about alcohol use prior to becoming pregnant, early on in the pregnancy, and continue to do so throughout the pregnancy in different ways to keep reinforcing the message.

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* 11. Which of the following is not a strategy to ensure a successful screening of alcohol use during a pregnancy?

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* 12. As a result of this viewing this webinar, I hope to learn: