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Florida Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System (PRAMS)
Investigator (PI): Hernandez, Leticia E
Performing Organization (PO): (Current): Florida Department of Health / (850) 245-4444
Supporting Agency (SA): Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion (NCCDPHP) || Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Office of the Director (OD) || Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), National Center for Injury Prevention and Control (NCIPC)
Initial Year: 2016
Final Year: 2021
Record Source/Award ID: RePorter/U01DP006200
Funding: 2016 Award Amount: $120,542
2017 Award Amount: $148,488
2018 Award Amount: $122,799
2019 Award Amount: $130,287
Award Type: Grant
Abstract: The Florida Department of Health is submitting an application to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention for funding in the amount of $120,524 for the first year of a five-year cooperative agreement and $150,000 each year thereafter to conduct the Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System (PRAMS). The Florida Department of Health and its state and local partners continue to value and use the data collected by PRAMS to develop and evaluate policy to effect change in supporting services to the women surveyed. Leticia Hernandez, MS, PhD, Maternal and Child Health Epidemiologist, will serve as the principal investigator and will provide scientific and technical leadership as well as direction throughout the current grant funding period. Florida is the third most populous state in the nation with approximately 20 million residents living within 67 counties in 2015. The state is ethnically and racially diverse. The racial/ethnic composition of Florida is approximately 78 percent white and 17 percent black with 24 percent of the total population being of Hispanic origin. It ranks fourth nationally in annual live births with 22 percent of Florida's total population less than 18 years of age and 27 percent between the ages 18 and 39, according to 2015 population estimates. The overall goals of the PRAMS program are (1) to collect population-based data of high scientific quality on topics relating to pregnancy and early infancy; (2) to conduct data analyses in order to increase understanding of maternal behaviors and experiences during pregnancy and early infancy, and their relationship to health outcomes; (3) to translate results from analyses into useable information for planning and evaluation of public health programs and policy; and (4) to build state capacity. To address the four overarching goals of the project, Florida will conduct activities to improve its overall annual weighted response rate by 2 percent each year. Previous analyses have shown that more than half of live births in Florida are to mothers receiving Medicaid. Florida PRAMS will continue to gain access to the state's Medicaid system as a search engine to gather up-to-date contact information to ensure increased delivery of the mail survey instrument to the selected mothers. In addition, the Florida PRAMS will continue to test incentives that increase the completion of the surveys and implement those found to be successful. Finally, Florida PRAMS will continue to engage and collaborate with state and local partners and data users to address state-specific needs.
MeSH Terms:
  • Adolescent
  • Adult
  • African Americans
  • Data Collection
  • Female
  • Florida
  • Health Policy
  • Hispanic Americans
  • Humans
  • Infant, Newborn
  • * Maternal Health
  • Outcome Assessment, Health Care
  • Pregnancy
  • Pregnancy Complications /*diagnosis
  • Pregnancy Outcome
  • Program Development
  • Public Health
  • Risk Assessment /*methods
  • Young Adult
Country: United States
State: Florida
Zip Code: 32399
UI: 20174318
Project Status: Ongoing
Record History: ('In 2018-2019: NCPIC provided funding. In 2017, NCCDPHP provided $108,488 and ODCDC provided $40,000 in funding. NCCDPHP provided total funding for 2016.',)