Risky drinking patterns are being continued into pregnancy: a prospective cohort study

Background: Risky patterns of alcohol use prior to pregnancy increase the risk of alcohol-exposed pregnancies and subsequent adverse outcomes. It is important to understand how consumption changes once women become pregnant. Objective: The aim of this study was to describe the characteristics of women that partake in risky drinking patterns before pregnancy and to examine how these patterns change once they become pregnant. Methods: A sample of 1577 women from the 1973–78 cohort of the Australian Longitudinal Study on Women’s Health were included if they first reported being pregnant in 2000, 2003, 2006, 2009 and reported risky drinking patterns prior to that pregnancy. Multinomial logistic regression was used to determine which risky drinking patterns were most likely to continue into pregnancy. Results: When reporting risky drinking patterns prior to pregnancy only 6% of women reported weekly drinking only, whereas 46% reported binge drinking only and 48% reported both. Women in both binge categories were more likely to have experienced financial stress, not been partnered, smoked, used drugs, been nulliparous, experienced a violent relationship, and were less educated. Most women (46%) continued these risky drinking patterns into pregnancy, with 40% reducing these behaviors, and 14% completely ceasing alcohol consumption. Once pregnant, women who binged only prior to pregnancy were more likely to continue (55%) rather than reduce drinking (29%). Of the combined drinking group 61% continued to binge and 47% continued weekly drinking. Compared with the combined drinking group, binge only drinkers prior to pregnancy were less likely to reduce rather than continue their drinking once pregnant (OR = 0.37, 95% CI = 0.29, 0.47). Conclusions: Over a third of women continued risky drinking into pregnancy, especially binge drinking, suggesting a need to address alcohol consumption prior to pregnancy. Alexis J. Hure, Peta M. Forder, Jennifer Powers, Frances J. Kay-Lambkin, Deborah J. Loxto

Creating a curriculum based library instruction plan for medical students

[Excerpt] There are multiple situations in which a librarian may find themselves creating a multi-session or longitudinal curriculum-based library instruction program. Maybe you’ve been hoping to do just this very thing for a while, or you stepped into the shoes of a librarian that did this before you, or possibly you’re finding your motivation from an external force. You might be facing this challenge with years of teaching experience or not. No matter what the situation, this chapter will provide tips and strategies for developing a well-rounded library instruction program that focuses on the use of both information literacy skills and evidence based practice principles

Dimensions of Prym Varieties

Given a tame Galois branched cover of curves pi: X -> Y with any finite Galois group G whose representations are rational, we compute the dimension of the (generalized) Prym variety corresponding to any irreducible representation \rho of G. This formula can be applied to the study of algebraic integrable systems using Lax pairs, in particular systems associated with Seiberg-Witten theory. However, the formula is much more general and its computation and proof are entirely algebraic.Comment: LaTeX, 9 pages, no figures. This work was part of my Ph.D. thesis at U. Pen

MS-146: Lillian Mae Pittenturf Hollebaugh Albums

This collection of photograph albums encompasses parents, cousins, and friends of Lillian Mae Pittenturf Hollebaugh and several of her husband’s nieces, cousins, and an aunt and uncle. They are from the Beck, Booke, Brown, Bushman, Culp, Dougherty, Eckenrode, Gerlach, Hay, Hollebaugh, Ickes, Kitzmiller, Martin, Mechey, Milan, Mumper, Owens, Pittenturf, Plan, Ramer, Rodkey, Rouzer, Rupp, Schriver, Slaybaugh, Smith, Spangler, Speese, Tawney, Tinsley, Truxel, and Weikert families. Special Collections and College Archives Finding Aids are discovery tools used to describe and provide access to our holdings. Finding aids include historical and biographical information about each collection in addition to inventories of their content. More information about our collections can be found on our website http://www.gettysburg.edu/special_collections/collections/.https://cupola.gettysburg.edu/findingaidsall/1126/thumbnail.jp