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? ASKED ME IF I WAS SMOKING CIGARETTES1

Demographic
Groups
Total
Respond2
NO YES
N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%)
Total 628 159 26.3 22.5-30.5 469 73.7 69.5-77.5
Age
< 25 years 122 24 19.5 12.3-29.6 98 80.5 70.4-87.7
25-34 years 362 98 28.4 23.3-34.1 264 71.6 65.9-76.7
35+ years 144 37 28.1 20.5-37.2 107 71.9 62.8-79.5
Race/Ethnicity
Non-Hispanic White 391 102 27.8 23.2-33.0 289 72.2 67.0-76.8
Non-Hispanic Black 105 *** *** *** *** *** ***
Non-Hispanic Other 39 *** *** *** *** *** ***
Latina 75 *** *** *** 65 88.6 78.3-94.4
Education
< High School 50 *** *** *** *** *** ***
High School 119 28 25.6 17.0-36.6 91 74.4 63.4-83.0
> High School 458 126 28.2 23.8-33.2 332 71.8 66.8-76.2
Marital Status
Married 441 122 29.1 24.6-34.1 319 70.9 65.9-75.4
Other 187 37 20.5 14.1-28.9 150 79.5 71.1-85.9
Medicaid recipient
No 379 101 27.2 22.5-32.4 278 72.8 67.6-77.5
Yes 249 58 25.1 19.0-32.4 191 74.9 67.6-81.0
Infant's birth weight
Under 2500 grams 197 42 21.4 16.1-27.8 155 78.6 72.2-83.9
2500+ grams 431 117 26.7 22.6-31.3 314 73.3 68.7-77.4

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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