2020 North Carolina Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System Survey Results

PRECONCEPTION CARE

During any of your health care visits in the 12 months before you got pregnant, did a doctor, nurse, or other health care worker do any of the following things? TALKED TO ME ABOUT HOW I COULD IMPROVE MY HEALTH BEFORE PREGNANCY1

Demographic
Groups
Total
Respond2
NO YES
N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%)
Total 512 330 67.7 62.7-72.3 182 32.3 27.7-37.3
Age
< 25 years 72 *** *** *** *** *** ***
25-34 years 310 203 67.2 60.7-73.1 107 32.8 26.9-39.3
35+ years 130 78 63.3 53.4-72.2 52 36.7 27.8-46.6
Race/Ethnicity
Non-Hispanic White 323 215 66.4 60.0-72.3 108 33.6 27.7-40.0
Non-Hispanic Black 84 54 75.6 64.0-84.3 *** *** ***
Non-Hispanic Other 23 *** *** *** *** *** ***
Latina 58 *** *** *** *** *** ***
Education
< High School 31 *** *** *** *** *** ***
High School 80 *** *** *** *** *** ***
> High School 401 259 67.6 62.0-72.7 142 32.4 27.3-38.0
Marital Status
Married 360 225 64.6 58.5-70.2 135 35.4 29.8-41.5
Other 152 105 74.8 65.8-82.2 47 25.2 17.8-34.2
Medicaid recipient
No 331 213 67.1 61.1-72.7 118 32.9 27.3-38.9
Yes 181 117 68.8 59.8-76.6 64 31.2 23.4-40.2
Infant's birth weight
Under 2500 grams 173 103 57.8 49.9-65.4 70 42.2 34.6-50.1
2500+ grams 339 227 68.6 63.2-73.5 112 31.4 26.5-36.8

1Asked of mothers who reported health care visit before pregnancy.
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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