# Maine Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System - Component A: Core Surveillance

> **NIH ALLCDC U01** · MAINE STATE DEPT/HEALTH/HUMAN SERVS · 2020 · $160,020

## Abstract

Maine Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System (Maine PRAMS) – Component A
Project Abstract
The Maine Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System aims to accomplish three goals: operationalize and
maintain a population-based surveillance system that collects specific data from Maine postpartum women on
emerging issues regarding maternal behaviors and experiences that occur before, during, and after pregnancy;
disseminate data collected to epidemiologists and subject matter experts that will use the data to inform their
practice and overall public health policy; and, ultimately decrease the maternal and infant morbidity and mortality
rate in Maine. These aims coincide with the overall purpose of PRAMS for Component A by aligning efforts to address
surveillance needs especially on a proactive and emerging scale.
To execute this project Maine PRAMS will use multi-modal data collection in the form of both paper and telephone
surveys provided to voluntary participants who are randomly sampled via State of Maine certified birth certificates.
Participants will be randomly sampled based on their delivery date of two to four months prior, residence status (in-
state vs. out-of-state), and non-surrogate and non-adoptive status. This data collection will be conducted on an
ongoing basis by initiating a sample batch for each of the twelve months of a data collection year to capture new
births. The batches will follow a strict schedule that outlines the mailing dates for surveys, when to transition to
phone surveys, and ultimately when to cease data collection for each batch.
Maine PRAMS intends to garner support and data partnerships within the current steering committee as well as
externally to influence the rate of use and the value of the data collected. The nature of these relationships
determines the effect that Maine PRAMS aims to hold on improving the health and wellness of Maine mothers and
babies and simultaneously decreasing the mortality and morbidity of the maternal and child health population.

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 10233080
- **Project number:** 1U01DP006614-01
- **Recipient organization:** MAINE STATE DEPT/HEALTH/HUMAN SERVS
- **Principal Investigator:** Virginia Buchanan
- **Activity code:** U01 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** ALLCDC
- **Fiscal year:** 2020
- **Award amount:** $160,020
- **Award type:** 1
- **Project period:** 2021-05-01 → 2026-04-30

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10233080

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 10233080, Maine Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System - Component A: Core Surveillance (1U01DP006614-01). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-24 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/10233080. Licensed CC0.

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