2020 North Carolina Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System Survey Results

ORAL HEALTH

This question is about other care of your teeth during your most recent pregnancy. DID YOU GO TO A DENTIST OR A DENTAL CLINIC ABOUT A PROBLEM?1

Demographic
Groups
Total
Respond2
NO YES
N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%)
Total 767 687 88.5 85.3-91.0 80 11.5 9.0-14.7
Age
< 25 years 154 137 87.6 78.9-93.0 17 12.4 7.0-21.1
25-34 years 453 406 88.5 84.3-91.7 47 11.5 8.3-15.7
35+ years 160 144 89.4 82.9-93.6 16 10.6 6.4-17.1
Race/Ethnicity
Non-Hispanic White 390 353 89.9 85.7-93.0 37 10.1 7.0-14.3
Non-Hispanic Black 147 126 85.2 76.5-91.1 21 14.8 8.9-23.5
Non-Hispanic Other 38 *** *** *** *** *** ***
Latina 159 148 91.8 85.0-95.6 11 8.2 4.4-15.0
Education
< High School 95 81 82.9 70.5-90.8 14 17.1 9.2-29.5
High School 163 143 87.5 79.6-92.7 20 12.5 7.3-20.4
> High School 509 463 89.8 86.0-92.6 46 10.2 7.4-14.0
Marital Status
Married 467 426 89.8 85.9-92.7 41 10.2 7.3-14.1
Other 300 261 86.4 80.6-90.6 39 13.6 9.4-19.4
Medicaid recipient
No 401 373 92.6 89.0-95.0 28 7.4 5.0-11.0
Yes 366 314 83.8 78.2-88.2 52 16.2 11.8-21.8
Infant's birth weight
Under 2500 grams 269 246 90.2 85.5-93.5 23 9.8 6.5-14.5
2500+ grams 498 441 88.3 84.8-91.0 57 11.7 9.0-15.2

1Asked of all mothers.
Please visit PRAMS–Annual Questionnaires for the new Phase 8 oral health 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 2020 was 45%.

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