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Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System

To identify and monitor selected maternal attitudes, behaviors and experiences before, during, and after pregnancy.

Collaborate with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System program.
Select Rhode Island mothers who recently gave birth randomly to receive the survey by mail.
Survey all mothers who deliver a low birth weight infants.
Encourage a high response rate by: sending a gift card with the survey in appreciation for anticipated participation; remailing the survey two more times to women who do not respond, calling women who still do not respond to offer opportunity to complete the survey over the telephone.
Provide the surveys and interviews in both English and Spanish.
Identify women and infants populations at high risk for health problems.
Monitor unintended pregnancy, prenatal care, breastfeeding, smoking, drinking, and infant health.
Measure progress towards public health goals for improving the health of mothers and infants.
Develop new, and modify existing, maternal and child health programs.
Help health professionals incorporate new research findings into standards of practice