2018 North Carolina Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System Survey Results

SLEEP POSITION AND BED SHARING

Did a doctor, nurse, or other health care worker tell you any of the following things1? WHAT THINGS SHOULD AND SHOULD NOT GO IN BED WITH BABY

Demographic
Groups		 Total
Respond2		 NO YES
N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%)
Total 885 101 11.0 8.9-13.5 784 89.0 86.5-91.1
Age
< 25 years 202 20 8.4 5.0-13.9 182 91.6 86.1-95.0
25-34 years 504 61 11.6 8.8-15.2 443 88.4 84.8-91.2
35+ years 179 20 12.7 8.1-19.3 159 87.3 80.7-91.9
Race/Ethnicity
Non-Hispanic White 491 66 13.4 10.4-17.1 425 86.6 82.9-89.6
Non-Hispanic Black 154 16 8.4 4.5-15.3 138 91.6 84.7-95.5
Non-Hispanic Other 63 *** *** *** 55 86.9 74.6-93.7
Latina 155 *** *** *** 146 93.7 88.1-96.8
Education
< High School 109 *** *** *** 104 95.2 88.2-98.1
High School 188 26 13.4 8.6-20.2 162 86.6 79.8-91.4
> High School 587 70 11.2 8.7-14.4 517 88.8 85.6-91.3
Marital Status
Married 574 72 13.0 10.2-16.4 502 87.0 83.6-89.8
Other 311 29 7.8 5.0-12.0 282 92.2 88.0-95.0
Medicaid recipient
No 495 59 11.6 8.8-15.0 436 88.4 85.0-91.2
Yes 390 42 10.3 7.3-14.4 348 89.7 85.6-92.7
Infant's birth weight
Under 2500 grams 270 31 11.9 8.5-16.5 239 88.1 83.5-91.5
2500+ grams 615 70 10.9 8.6-13.7 545 89.1 86.3-91.4

1Asked of all mothers with baby at home.
Please visit PRAMS–Annual Questionnaires for the new Phase 8 sleep position and bed sharing questions.
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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