2018 North Carolina Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System Survey Results

PRECONCEPTION CARE

During any of your health care visits in the 12 months before you got pregnant, did a doctor, nurse, or other health care worker do any of the following things? TALKED TO ME ABOUT HOW I COULD IMPROVE MY HEALTH BEFORE PREGNANCY1

Demographic
Groups
Total
Respond2
NO YES
N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%)
Total 622 428 70.1 65.7-74.1 194 29.9 25.9-34.3
Age
< 25 years 120 87 75.8 66.0-83.5 33 24.2 16.5-34.0
25-34 years 360 243 66.6 60.6-72.1 117 33.4 27.9-39.4
35+ years 142 98 73.1 64.0-80.7 44 26.9 19.3-36.0
Race/Ethnicity
Non-Hispanic White 388 289 77.5 72.6-81.7 99 22.5 18.3-27.4
Non-Hispanic Black 103 *** *** *** *** *** ***
Non-Hispanic Other 39 *** *** *** *** *** ***
Latina 74 *** *** *** *** *** ***
Education
< High School 50 *** *** *** *** *** ***
High School 114 84 74.0 63.3-82.5 30 26.0 17.5-36.7
> High School 457 320 72.5 67.6-76.9 137 27.5 23.1-32.4
Marital Status
Married 440 297 70.2 65.2-74.7 143 29.8 25.3-34.8
Other 182 131 69.9 60.9-77.6 51 30.1 22.4-39.1
Medicaid recipient
No 378 243 67.3 61.9-72.4 135 32.7 27.6-38.1
Yes 244 185 73.8 66.4-80.1 59 26.2 19.9-33.6
Infant's birth weight
Under 2500 grams 193 125 67.1 60.2-73.4 68 32.9 26.6-39.8
2500+ grams 429 303 70.3 65.6-74.7 126 29.7 25.3-34.4

1Asked of mothers who reported health care visit before pregnancy.
2Use caution in interpreting cell sizes less than 50.

*** This estimate was suppressed because it did not meet statistical reliability standards.
N = Cell Size, % = Percentage, C.I.(95%) = Confidence Interval (at 95 percent probability level).

The percentages shown are weighted percentages, designed to reflect the entire population of North Carolina women having a live birth.
The overall weighted response rate in 2018 was 53%.

This page was generated on 10OCT19

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