A Web-based Self-guide Intervention to Reduce Alcohol Exposed Pregnancy Risk Description of a quasi-experimental study designed to evaluate the use of the internet as a mechanism for behavioral change of women to reduce their risk of an alcohol-exposed pregnancy.

• Prevention of AEPs has emerged as a key public health strategy to reduce incidenceof Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders (FASD).
  

• Despite warnings that drinking during pregnancy is unsafe, many women continue to drink, both before and during pregnancy.
  

• Interventions based upon motivational interviewing have yielded statistically significan reductions in AEP risk through drinking reductions, effective contraception use, or both.
  

• In the absence of professional counseling support, self-guided change processes maybe automated and well-suited for delivery over the internet.
  

• This study describes the design and outcomes of a controlled study testing a selfguided change intervention, delivered over the internet or through the mail to reduce AEP risk in a sample of child-bearing age women (age 18-44).

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