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? WHAT THINGS SHOULD AND SHOULD NOT GO IN BED WITH BABY

Demographic
Groups		 Total
Respond2		 NO YES
N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%)
Total 752 92 11.8 9.3-14.7 660 88.2 85.3-90.7
Age
< 25 years 148 *** *** *** 138 92.6 85.2-96.5
25-34 years 443 49 10.3 7.5-14.0 394 89.7 86.0-92.5
35+ years 161 33 22.2 15.6-30.7 128 77.8 69.3-84.4
Race/Ethnicity
Non-Hispanic White 387 54 14.3 10.7-18.9 333 85.7 81.1-89.3
Non-Hispanic Black 140 11 6.4 3.0-12.9 129 93.6 87.1-97.0
Non-Hispanic Other 38 *** *** *** *** *** ***
Latina 155 17 9.3 5.6-15.2 138 90.7 84.8-94.4
Education
< High School 93 11 13.6 7.0-24.7 82 86.4 75.3-93.0
High School 157 18 11.9 7.0-19.7 139 88.1 80.3-93.0
> High School 502 63 11.4 8.6-14.9 439 88.6 85.1-91.4
Marital Status
Married 462 52 11.3 8.4-15.0 410 88.7 85.0-91.6
Other 290 40 12.6 8.7-17.8 250 87.4 82.2-91.3
Medicaid recipient
No 400 54 13.3 10.0-17.5 346 86.7 82.5-90.0
Yes 352 38 10.0 6.8-14.6 314 90.0 85.4-93.2
Infant's birth weight
Under 2500 grams 254 27 10.5 7.2-15.1 227 89.5 84.9-92.8
2500+ grams 498 65 11.9 9.3-15.1 433 88.1 84.9-90.7

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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