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 CONTROLLING ANY MEDICAL CONDITIONS SUCH AS DIABETES OR HIGH BLOOD PRESSURE1

Demographic
Groups
Total
Respond2
NO YES
N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%)
Total 511 422 83.7 79.5-87.2 89 16.3 12.8-20.5
Age
< 25 years 71 *** *** *** *** *** ***
25-34 years 310 267 85.6 80.0-89.8 43 14.4 10.2-20.0
35+ years 130 103 81.6 73.3-87.7 27 18.4 12.3-26.7
Race/Ethnicity
Non-Hispanic White 321 291 89.0 83.8-92.7 30 11.0 7.3-16.2
Non-Hispanic Black 84 *** *** *** *** *** ***
Non-Hispanic Other 23 *** *** *** *** *** ***
Latina 59 *** *** *** *** *** ***
Education
< High School 32 *** *** *** *** *** ***
High School 79 *** *** *** *** *** ***
> High School 400 343 86.5 82.1-90.0 57 13.5 10.0-17.9
Marital Status
Married 360 312 88.3 83.8-91.7 48 11.7 8.3-16.2
Other 151 110 73.1 63.5-81.0 41 26.9 19.0-36.5
Medicaid recipient
No 331 291 88.0 83.2-91.6 40 12.0 8.4-16.8
Yes 180 131 75.6 67.0-82.5 49 24.4 17.5-33.0
Infant's birth weight
Under 2500 grams 174 139 75.6 67.7-82.0 35 24.4 18.0-32.3
2500+ grams 337 283 84.4 79.8-88.1 54 15.6 11.9-20.2

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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