2020 North Carolina Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System Survey Results

POSTPARTUM MOM CARE

During your postpartum checkup, did a doctor, nurse, or other health care worker do any of the following things? TALK TO ME ABOUT BIRTH CONTROL METHODS I CAN USE AFTER GIVING BIRTH1

Demographic
Groups		 Total
Respond2		 NO YES
N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%)
Total 674 67 9.6 7.3-12.6 607 90.4 87.4-92.7
Age
< 25 years 131 *** *** *** 126 94.9 87.1-98.1
25-34 years 396 32 8.3 5.5-12.3 364 91.7 87.7-94.5
35+ years 147 30 19.7 13.4-27.9 117 80.3 72.1-86.6
Race/Ethnicity
Non-Hispanic White 366 40 11.1 7.8-15.5 326 88.9 84.5-92.2
Non-Hispanic Black 124 *** *** *** 115 94.0 86.8-97.4
Non-Hispanic Other 34 *** *** *** *** *** ***
Latina 120 *** *** *** 110 90.9 81.7-95.7
Education
< High School 67 *** *** *** 62 92.5 79.5-97.5
High School 130 *** *** *** 123 93.4 85.6-97.1
> High School 477 55 10.9 8.0-14.6 422 89.1 85.4-92.0
Marital Status
Married 438 50 11.1 8.1-15.1 388 88.9 84.9-91.9
Other 236 17 7.0 4.0-12.2 219 93.0 87.8-96.0
Medicaid recipient
No 370 41 11.1 7.9-15.5 329 88.9 84.5-92.1
Yes 304 26 7.8 4.8-12.3 278 92.2 87.7-95.2
Infant's birth weight
Under 2500 grams 229 23 9.8 6.5-14.6 206 90.2 85.4-93.5
2500+ grams 445 44 9.6 7.1-12.9 401 90.4 87.1-92.9

1Asked only of mothers who reported having a postpartum checkup for herself
Please visit PRAMS–Annual Questionnaires for the new Phase 8 postpartum checkup 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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