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 NEED TO SEE A DENTIST FOR A PROBLEM?1

Demographic
Groups
Total
Respond2
NO YES
N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%)
Total 768 650 83.6 80.0-86.6 118 16.4 13.4-20.0
Age
< 25 years 154 127 80.5 71.1-87.4 27 19.5 12.6-28.9
25-34 years 453 385 84.3 79.8-88.0 68 15.7 12.0-20.2
35+ years 161 138 84.8 77.6-90.0 23 15.2 10.0-22.4
Race/Ethnicity
Non-Hispanic White 392 329 83.2 78.1-87.2 63 16.8 12.8-21.9
Non-Hispanic Black 147 122 84.8 76.4-90.6 25 15.2 9.4-23.6
Non-Hispanic Other 38 *** *** *** *** *** ***
Latina 158 143 87.9 80.0-93.0 15 12.1 7.0-20.0
Education
< High School 96 *** *** *** *** *** ***
High School 162 134 82.2 73.3-88.6 28 17.8 11.4-26.7
> High School 510 441 85.9 81.9-89.2 69 14.1 10.8-18.1
Marital Status
Married 469 409 85.4 81.0-88.9 60 14.6 11.1-19.0
Other 299 241 80.8 74.5-85.8 58 19.2 14.2-25.5
Medicaid recipient
No 401 364 89.6 85.5-92.7 37 10.4 7.3-14.5
Yes 367 286 76.7 70.7-81.8 81 23.3 18.2-29.3
Infant's birth weight
Under 2500 grams 271 233 84.4 79.2-88.5 38 15.6 11.5-20.8
2500+ grams 497 417 83.5 79.6-86.7 80 16.5 13.3-20.4

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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