Ryan Bogdan, Shelby D Leverett, Anna M Constantino-Petit, Nicole Lashley-Simms, David B Liss, Emma C Johnson, Shannon N Lenze, Rachel E Lean, Tara A Smyser, Ebony B Carter, Christopher D Smyser, Cynthia E Rogers, Arpana Agrawal
BACKGROUND: Increasing cannabis use among pregnant people and equivocal evidence linking prenatal cannabis exposure to adverse outcomes in offspring highlights the need to understand its potential impact on pregnancy and child outcomes. Assessing cannabis use during pregnancy remains a major challenge with potential influences of stigma on self-report as well as detection limitations of easily collected biological matrices. OBJECTIVE: This descriptive study examined the concordance between self-reported (SR) cannabis use and urine drug screen (UDS) detection of cannabis exposure during the first trimester of pregnancy and characterized concordant and discordant groups for sociodemographic factors, modes of use, secondhand exposure to cannabis and tobacco, and alcohol use and cotinine positivity...
April 9, 2024: Neurotoxicology and Teratology