Category A (New States): Connecticut Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System

描述（申请人提供）：康涅狄格州（CT）妊娠风险评估监测系统（PRAMS）调查旨在为公共卫生部（DPH）提供有关围产期孕产妇健康，经验和行为的重要数据，并提高对CT母亲风险和保护因素的认识，并调查这些因素与分娩结局和母婴健康之间的关系。每月随机抽样的出生记录将提请康涅狄格州居民妇女谁交付了婴儿在国家在过去2-4个月内。减少种族和民族健康差距是所有DPH方案和倡议的核心。样本将按产妇种族/民族分层，以便对人群亚组进行单独估计，并进行有意义的比较，以量化和调查围产期指标的差异。这一过程将持续12个月，总样本量为2 385名妇女。母亲们将收到一系列邮件，与疾病控制和预防中心概述的方法一致。对于那些在调查的邮件阶段没有回复的母亲，将进行电话随访。CT PRAMS数据将被纳入解决国家妇幼保健优先事项的努力，以及全州范围内减少低出生体重、婴儿死亡率和健康差距的计划和举措。将利用全州范围的伙伴关系为项目提供信息，并促进广泛传播CT PRAMS调查结果。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Project Abstract The Connecticut (CT) Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System (PRAMS) survey is designed to provide the Department of Public Health (DPH) with important data about maternal health, experiences, and behaviors during the perinatal period, and advance knowledge about risk and protective factors among CT mothers, and to investigate the associations between these factors and birth outcomes and maternal and infant health. Monthly random samples of birth records will be drawn for Connecticut resident women who delivered an infant in state within the preceding 2-4 months. Reducing racial and ethnic health disparities is central to all DPH programs and initiatives. The sample will be stratified by maternal race/ethnicity in order to produce separate estimates for population subgroups, and to allow for meaningful comparisons to quantify and investigate disparities in perinatal indicators. This process will span 12-months, with a total sample size of 2,385 women. Mothers will receive a series of mailings, consistent with a methodology outlined by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Telephone follow-up will be conducted for those mothers who did not respond during the mail phase of the survey. CT PRAMS data will be integrated into efforts to address state Maternal and Child Health priorities, as well as statewide plans and initiatives to reduce low birth weight, infant mortality, and health disparities. Statewide partnerships will be utilized to inform the project and facilitate wide dissemination of CT PRAMS findings.