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 MAINTAINING A HEALTHY WEIGHT1

Demographic
Groups
Total
Respond2
NO YES
N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%)
Total 514 305 61.7 56.5-66.6 209 38.3 33.4-43.5
Age
< 25 years 71 *** *** *** *** *** ***
25-34 years 312 193 62.2 55.6-68.4 119 37.8 31.6-44.4
35+ years 131 74 59.4 49.5-68.7 57 40.6 31.3-50.5
Race/Ethnicity
Non-Hispanic White 322 210 65.0 58.5-70.9 112 35.0 29.1-41.5
Non-Hispanic Black 85 *** *** *** *** *** ***
Non-Hispanic Other 24 *** *** *** *** *** ***
Latina 59 *** *** *** *** *** ***
Education
< High School 32 *** *** *** *** *** ***
High School 78 *** *** *** *** *** ***
> High School 404 247 63.1 57.4-68.5 157 36.9 31.5-42.6
Marital Status
Married 363 220 62.6 56.6-68.3 143 37.4 31.7-43.4
Other 151 85 59.6 49.5-68.9 66 40.4 31.1-50.5
Medicaid recipient
No 335 196 58.9 52.6-64.9 139 41.1 35.1-47.4
Yes 179 109 67.1 58.1-75.0 70 32.9 25.0-41.9
Infant's birth weight
Under 2500 grams 175 98 53.5 45.7-61.2 77 46.5 38.8-54.3
2500+ grams 339 207 62.4 56.8-67.7 132 37.6 32.3-43.2

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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