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Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System (PRAMS)
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2009 Maine PRAMS Data Brief (word* | pdf*) - A report which highlights topic areas of PRAMS survey samples.
2009 PRAMS Detailed Data Tables
Alcohol
- Mom drank alcohol in past 2 years
- Binge drinking before pregnancy
- Binge drinking during pregnancy
- Mom drank during pregnancy
Birth Certificate Variables
Birth Control
- Birth control used at time of conception
- Reason for not using birth control before pregnancy:
- Birth control now:
Breastfeeding
Child Safety Seats
Domestic Violence
History/Previous Births
Insurance
- Insurance Before Pregnancy
- Insurance to help pay for prenatal care:
- Insurance to help pay for delivery:
Labor and Delivery
- Mom received shots to prevent early labor
- Labor induced using medicine
- Why labor was induced:
- Planned delivery at least 1 week before birth
- How was baby delivered? (pdf)
- Whose idea to have cesarean delivery?
- Baby seen by doctor for one week check-up?
Mental Health
- Checked for depression/anxiety before pregnancy
- Mom felt down, depressed or sad
- Mom felt hopeless
- Mom felt slowed down
Mercury
Nutrition, Diet and Exercise
- Dieting before pregnant
- Exercising before pregnancy
- Pre-pregnancy BMI
- Vitamin use before pregnancy
- Did not take vitamins because:
- HCW talked about weight gain during pregnancy
- Ate less because not enough money
- Got emergency food
Oral Health
- Teeth cleaned before most recent pregnancy
- Counseled on teeth and gums during pregnancy
- Dental insurance
- Ever have teeth cleaned
- Had a dental problem and needed to see a dentist
- Teeth cleaned during most recent pregnancy
- Teeth cleaned after most recent pregnancy
- Went to dentist or clinic
Pregnancy Intention
Prenatal Care
- HCW talked about healthy pregnancy
- HIV testing
- Mom got prenatal care as early as wanted
- Things that kept you from getting prenatal care as early as wanted:
Problem and Health Conditions
- Taking prescription medicines before pregnancy
- Checked for diabetes before pregnant
- Checked for high blood pressure before pregnant
- Diabetes before pregnancy
- Told you had gestational diabetes
- Problems during pregnancy:
- Vaginal bleeding
- Kidney or bladder infection
- Severe nausea
- Cervix sewn shut
- High blood pressure during pregnancy
- Problems with the placenta
- Labor pains more than 3 weeks early
- Premature rupture of membranes
- Needed blood transfusion
- Hurt in a car accident
- Went To hospital for the problem
- Number of hospital visits for the problem
Shaken Baby
- Heard about shaken baby from the following sources:
Sleep Routines
Smoking
- Household smoking rules
- HCW told mom about smoking during pregnancy
- Smoked any cigarettes past 2 years
- Mom smoked before pregnancy
- Mom smoked during pregnancy
- Mom smokes now
- HCW recommended during prenatal care visits to quit smoking:

