# Component A (Core Surveillance): Connecticut Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System (PRAMS)

> **NIH ALLCDC U01** · CONNECTICUT STATE DEPT OF PUBLIC HEALTH · 2020 · $149,342

## Abstract

Project Abstract 
The Connecticut (CT) Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System (PRAMS) is designed 
to provide the Department of Public Health (DPH) with important data about maternal 
health, experiences, and behaviors during the perinatal period; advance knowledge about 
risk and protective factors among CT mothers; and investigate the associations between 
these factors and birth outcomes and maternal and infant health. Random samples are 
drawn from birth records on a monthly basis. The sampling frame is limited to CT resident 
women who delivered an infant in‐state within the preceding 2‐6 months. Reducing racial 
and ethnic health disparities is central to all DPH programs and initiatives. The sample is 
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. Data collection for each surveillance year spans 15 months, with a 
total sample size of approximately 2,200 women. PRAMS employs a mixed‐mode data 
collection methodology that includes a mail questionnaire with several follow‐up attempts, 
followed by a telephone survey for mail non‐responders. 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, preterm birth, infant mortality, 
and health disparities. Statewide partners will be utilized to inform the project and facilitate 
wide dissemination of CT PRAMS findings.

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 9924415
- **Project number:** 5U01DP006193-05
- **Recipient organization:** CONNECTICUT STATE DEPT OF PUBLIC HEALTH
- **Principal Investigator:** Jennifer Morin
- **Activity code:** U01 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** ALLCDC
- **Fiscal year:** 2020
- **Award amount:** $149,342
- **Award type:** 5
- **Project period:** 2016-05-01 → 2021-04-30

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/9924415

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 9924415, Component A (Core Surveillance): Connecticut Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System (PRAMS) (5U01DP006193-05). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-26 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/9924415. Licensed CC0.

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