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? TALK TO ME ABOUT HOW LONG TO WAIT BEFORE GETTING PREGNANT AGAIN1

Demographic
Groups		 Total
Respond2		 NO YES
N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%)
Total 828 375 45.8 41.9-49.8 453 54.2 50.2-58.1
Age
< 25 years 181 66 37.0 29.2-45.5 115 63.0 54.5-70.8
25-34 years 473 227 49.2 44.0-54.4 246 50.8 45.6-56.0
35+ years 174 82 47.9 39.4-56.5 92 52.1 43.5-60.6
Race/Ethnicity
Non-Hispanic White 457 225 49.5 44.4-54.5 232 50.5 45.5-55.6
Non-Hispanic Black 144 *** *** *** *** *** ***
Non-Hispanic Other 61 *** *** *** *** *** ***
Latina 146 56 37.9 29.6-47.0 90 62.1 53.0-70.4
Education
< High School 97 *** *** *** *** *** ***
High School 176 68 39.0 30.8-47.9 108 61.0 52.1-69.2
> High School 554 267 49.3 44.5-54.1 287 50.7 45.9-55.5
Marital Status
Married 544 258 48.4 43.7-53.0 286 51.6 47.0-56.3
Other 284 117 41.6 34.6-49.0 167 58.4 51.0-65.4
Medicaid recipient
No 476 219 46.5 41.5-51.6 257 53.5 48.4-58.5
Yes 352 156 45.0 38.8-51.4 196 55.0 48.6-61.2
Infant's birth weight
Under 2500 grams 253 109 42.5 36.5-48.8 144 57.5 51.2-63.5
2500+ grams 575 266 46.1 41.9-50.4 309 53.9 49.6-58.1

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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