2020 North Carolina Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System Survey Results

MORBIDITY-MATERNAL

At any time during the 12 months before you got pregnant with your new baby, did you do any of the following things? I WAS REGULARLY TAKING PRESCRIPTION MEDICINES OTHER THAN BIRTH CONTROL1

Demographic
Groups		 Total
Respond2		 NO YES
N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%)
Total 774 566 75.0 71.1-78.5 208 25.0 21.5-28.9
Age
< 25 years 154 123 78.5 69.1-85.6 31 21.5 14.4-30.9
25-34 years 457 328 73.7 68.5-78.2 129 26.3 21.8-31.5
35+ years 163 115 75.2 67.2-81.8 48 24.8 18.2-32.8
Race/Ethnicity
Non-Hispanic White 396 263 69.5 63.8-74.7 133 30.5 25.3-36.2
Non-Hispanic Black 150 111 78.1 69.4-85.0 39 21.9 15.0-30.6
Non-Hispanic Other 39 *** *** *** *** *** ***
Latina 156 139 87.7 79.4-93.0 17 12.3 7.0-20.6
Education
< High School 95 79 82.7 70.8-90.4 16 17.3 9.6-29.2
High School 163 133 80.4 71.2-87.3 30 19.6 12.7-28.8
> High School 516 354 71.8 67.0-76.1 162 28.2 23.9-33.0
Marital Status
Married 471 339 73.5 68.4-78.0 132 26.5 22.0-31.6
Other 303 227 77.3 71.0-82.5 76 22.7 17.5-29.0
Medicaid recipient
No 404 286 73.0 67.7-77.7 118 27.0 22.3-32.3
Yes 370 280 77.2 71.3-82.2 90 22.8 17.8-28.7
Infant's birth weight
Under 2500 grams 269 181 67.9 61.8-73.4 88 32.1 26.6-38.2
2500+ grams 505 385 75.6 71.4-79.4 120 24.4 20.6-28.6

1Asked of all mothers.
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%.

This page was generated on 06SEP22

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