2018 North Carolina Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System Survey Results

POSTPARTUM MOM CARE

During your postpartum checkup, did a doctor, nurse, or other health care worker do any of the following things? TESTED FOR DIABETES1

Demographic
Groups		 Total
Respond2		 NO YES
N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%)
Total 822 600 73.6 69.9-76.9 222 26.4 23.1-30.1
Age
< 25 years 179 118 69.1 60.8-76.3 61 30.9 23.7-39.2
25-34 years 472 364 77.9 73.2-81.9 108 22.1 18.1-26.8
35+ years 171 118 67.2 58.3-75.1 53 32.8 24.9-41.7
Race/Ethnicity
Non-Hispanic White 453 401 88.8 85.2-91.6 52 11.2 8.4-14.8
Non-Hispanic Black 143 97 72.5 62.2-80.9 46 27.5 19.1-37.8
Non-Hispanic Other 60 *** *** *** *** *** ***
Latina 146 51 31.4 23.7-40.2 95 68.6 59.8-76.3
Education
< High School 97 *** *** *** *** *** ***
High School 173 118 70.2 61.6-77.5 55 29.8 22.5-38.4
> High School 551 447 81.4 77.3-85.0 104 18.6 15.0-22.7
Marital Status
Married 539 420 79.3 75.3-82.8 119 20.7 17.2-24.7
Other 283 180 64.1 56.8-70.7 103 35.9 29.3-43.2
Medicaid recipient
No 472 358 75.0 70.3-79.2 114 25.0 20.8-29.7
Yes 350 242 71.7 65.7-77.1 108 28.3 22.9-34.3
Infant's birth weight
Under 2500 grams 251 176 69.2 63.0-74.7 75 30.8 25.3-37.0
2500+ grams 571 424 73.9 69.9-77.6 147 26.1 22.4-30.1

1Asked only of mothers who reported having a postpartum checkup for herself
Please visit PRAMS–Annual Questionnaires for the new Phase 8 postpartum checkup 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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