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? TESTED FOR DIABETES1

Demographic
Groups		 Total
Respond2		 NO YES
N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%)
Total 667 501 76.2 72.1-79.9 166 23.8 20.1-27.9
Age
< 25 years 130 86 69.0 58.7-77.8 44 31.0 22.2-41.3
25-34 years 389 303 78.1 72.6-82.7 86 21.9 17.3-27.4
35+ years 148 112 78.8 70.7-85.1 36 21.2 14.9-29.3
Race/Ethnicity
Non-Hispanic White 363 334 92.2 88.2-94.9 29 7.8 5.1-11.8
Non-Hispanic Black 121 *** *** *** *** *** ***
Non-Hispanic Other 35 *** *** *** *** *** ***
Latina 119 *** *** *** *** *** ***
Education
< High School 66 *** *** *** *** *** ***
High School 128 *** *** *** *** *** ***
> High School 473 406 85.9 81.7-89.2 67 14.1 10.8-18.3
Marital Status
Married 436 363 84.8 80.5-88.3 73 15.2 11.7-19.5
Other 231 138 60.8 52.7-68.3 93 39.2 31.7-47.3
Medicaid recipient
No 366 317 87.4 83.1-90.7 49 12.6 9.3-16.9
Yes 301 184 62.3 55.2-69.0 117 37.7 31.0-44.8
Infant's birth weight
Under 2500 grams 226 159 66.6 59.6-72.9 67 33.4 27.1-40.4
2500+ grams 441 342 77.0 72.6-81.0 99 23.0 19.0-27.4

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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