2020 North Carolina Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System Survey Results

SLEEP POSITION AND BED SHARING

Did a doctor, nurse, or other health care worker tell you any of the following things1? PLACE BABY ON HIS OR HER BACK TO SLEEP

Demographic
Groups
Total
Respond2
NO YES
N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%)
Total 751 32 4.1 2.8- 6.0 719 95.9 94.0-97.2
Age
< 25 years 148 *** *** *** 144 96.6 90.2-98.9
25-34 years 443 16 3.2 1.8- 5.4 427 96.8 94.6-98.2
35+ years 160 12 8.1 4.4-14.4 148 91.9 85.6-95.6
Race/Ethnicity
Non-Hispanic White 387 12 2.8 1.5- 5.3 375 97.2 94.7-98.5
Non-Hispanic Black 138 *** *** *** 133 96.5 90.5-98.8
Non-Hispanic Other 38 *** *** *** *** *** ***
Latina 156 *** *** *** 146 93.4 87.6-96.6
Education
< High School 94 *** *** *** 89 93.9 85.6-97.6
High School 155 *** *** *** 146 94.5 88.6-97.5
> High School 502 18 3.3 2.0- 5.4 484 96.7 94.6-98.0
Marital Status
Married 463 17 3.3 1.9- 5.6 446 96.7 94.4-98.1
Other 288 15 5.3 3.0- 9.2 273 94.7 90.8-97.0
Medicaid recipient
No 401 16 3.8 2.2- 6.3 385 96.2 93.7-97.8
Yes 350 16 4.4 2.5- 7.8 334 95.6 92.2-97.5
Infant's birth weight
Under 2500 grams 253 *** *** *** 246 97.4 94.5-98.8
2500+ grams 498 25 4.2 2.8- 6.3 473 95.8 93.7-97.2

1Asked of all mothers with baby at home.
Please visit PRAMS–Annual Questionnaires for the new Phase 8 sleep position and bed sharing 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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