I DRANK BECAUSE I WANTED TO DEAL WITH THE FRUSTRATION”: EXPLAINING ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION DURING PREGNANCY IN A LOW-RESOURCE SETTING – WOMEN’S, PARTNERS AND FAMILY MEMBERS’ NARRATIVES

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https://doi.org/10.15270/56-1-792

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pregnancy, alcohol, narratives, support, interventions, South Africa

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Understanding the explanatory narratives that women, partners and family members provide for consuming alcohol during pregnancy is essential in interventions. This paper reports on the stories of 25 participants in a low-resource area. Explanations included lack of partner support (not providing financially, being unfaithful, denying paternity), stress (HIV diagnosis, unwanted pregnancy, poverty), trauma (rape, death and crime), and a drinking culture (unregulated taverns, availability of liquor, peer pressure). Interventions should work with the gender norms; provide services or referrals for trauma; provide non-judgmental counselling; and target drinking in general in the community so as to reduce drinking culture.

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Catriona Ida Macleod, Rhodes University

Department of Psychology

Sibongile Matebese, Rhodes University

Post graduate student

Department of Psychology

Nontozamo Tsetse, Rhodes University

Department of Psychology

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2020-03-24

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Macleod, C. I., Matebese, S., & Tsetse, N. (2020). I DRANK BECAUSE I WANTED TO DEAL WITH THE FRUSTRATION”: EXPLAINING ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION DURING PREGNANCY IN A LOW-RESOURCE SETTING – WOMEN’S, PARTNERS AND FAMILY MEMBERS’ NARRATIVES. Social Work/Maatskaplike Werk, 56(1), 88–96. https://doi.org/10.15270/56-1-792

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