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Partnering with the Health Professions to Promote Prevention of an Alcohol-Exposed Pregnancy: Lessons Learned from an Academic–Organizational Collaborative

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  • Leigh Tenkku Lepper

    (School of Social Work, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO 65211, USA)

  • Diane King

    (Center for Behavioral health Research and Services, University of Alaska Anchorage, Anchorage, AK 99508, USA)

  • Joy Doll

    (Center for Interprofessional Practice, Education and Research, Creighton University, Omaha, NE 68178, USA)

  • Sandra Gonzalez

    (Department of Family and Community Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX 77098, USA)

  • Ann Mitchell

    (School of Nursing, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15261, USA)

  • Joyce Hartje

    (Center for the Application of Substance Abuse Technologies (CASAT), University of Nevada, Reno, NV 89557, USA)

Abstract

Background : Evidence-based strategies exist to train healthcare professionals to ask their patients and clients about alcohol use, and are successful. Implementation of these strategies utilizing a system-level approach has not been conducted nationwide. This case study reports on the success of academic partnerships with national health professional organizations to increase adoption of evidence-based strategies to prevent alcohol-exposed pregnancies. Methods : Authors reviewed and summarized multi-level strategies created as part of the developmental phase of this project in order to report successes and challenges. We applied the three principles of reflection, sense-making, and reciprocal learning, as identified in the practice change literature, to synthesize our experience. Results : There were five primary lessons learned as a result of this work: Development of technology-based training websites requires significant time to design, implement, and test; project ‘mission-drift’ is inevitable, but not necessarily unwelcome; time and effort is required to create and sustain functioning workgroups when there are different organizational cultures; and changing real-world practice is hard to do, yet changing the conversation on screening and brief intervention is possible. Conclusions : Use of multi-level strategies within an academic–professional organization model was successful in promoting awareness and education of healthcare professionals in the prevention of alcohol-exposed pregnancies.

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  • Leigh Tenkku Lepper & Diane King & Joy Doll & Sandra Gonzalez & Ann Mitchell & Joyce Hartje, 2019. "Partnering with the Health Professions to Promote Prevention of an Alcohol-Exposed Pregnancy: Lessons Learned from an Academic–Organizational Collaborative," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 16(10), pages 1-12, May.
  • Handle: RePEc:gam:jijerp:v:16:y:2019:i:10:p:1702-:d:231197
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    1. Larry Burd & Svetlana Popova, 2019. "Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders: Fixing Our Aim to Aim for the Fix," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 16(20), pages 1-6, October.

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