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 SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED INFECTIONS SUCH AS CHLAMYDIA, GONORRHEA, OR SYPHILIS1

Demographic
Groups
Total
Respond2
NO YES
N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%)
Total 624 450 72.3 67.9-76.4 174 27.7 23.6-32.1
Age
< 25 years 122 57 52.5 42.0-62.8 *** *** ***
25-34 years 360 276 75.7 69.9-80.7 84 24.3 19.3-30.1
35+ years 142 117 84.7 76.0-90.6 25 15.3 9.4-24.0
Race/Ethnicity
Non-Hispanic White 387 315 82.6 78.0-86.4 72 17.4 13.6-22.0
Non-Hispanic Black 105 *** *** *** *** *** ***
Non-Hispanic Other 39 *** *** *** *** *** ***
Latina 75 *** *** *** *** *** ***
Education
< High School 51 *** *** *** *** *** ***
High School 118 *** *** *** *** *** ***
> High School 454 361 79.2 74.2-83.4 93 20.8 16.6-25.8
Marital Status
Married 439 354 82.0 77.7-85.7 85 18.0 14.3-22.3
Other 185 96 52.4 43.3-61.3 89 47.6 38.7-56.7
Medicaid recipient
No 376 301 81.0 76.1-85.1 75 19.0 14.9-23.9
Yes 248 149 60.7 53.0-68.0 99 39.3 32.0-47.0
Infant's birth weight
Under 2500 grams 196 127 62.8 55.6-69.5 69 37.2 30.5-44.4
2500+ grams 428 323 73.2 68.4-77.5 105 26.8 22.5-31.6

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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