# Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System (PRAMS)

> **NIH ALLCDC U01** · RHODE ISLAND STATE DEPT OF HEALTH · 2020 · $141,000

## Abstract

Rhode Island Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System (PRAMS)
 RFA-DP-16-001: Component A – Core Surveillance
RESEARCH & RELATED Other Project Information
 Project Summary/Abstract
The Rhode Island Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System (PRAMS) is part of
the CDC’s initiative to reduce infant mortality and low birthweight. Based at the Rhode
Island Department of Health (RIDOH), Rhode Island PRAMS (RI PRAMS) is an ongoing
state and population based surveillance system designed to collect self-reported
information on maternal behaviors and experiences that occur before, during and
shortly after pregnancy among women who deliver live infants in Rhode Island.
Response rates are critical to the quality of a surveillance system such as PRAMS. RI
PRAMS has steadily achieved or surpassed the CDC PRAMS response rate threshold
since the inception of the program in RI in 2002.
RI PRAMS randomly selects approximately 170 women from the Rhode Island birth file
each month. These women receive a questionnaire by mail and non-respondents
receive follow-up mailings. Additional attempts to contact non-respondents are
conducted via telephone. Data is stratified by low birthweight and normal birthweight. All
women who gave birth to a low birthweight baby are sent a survey. RI PRAMS
materials, including surveys, are available in English and Spanish.
RI PRAMS works in partnership with its Steering Committee, RIDOH programs, other
state agencies and community based organizations on survey development, data
analysis and dissemination, and policy development to assure PRAMS data are used to
guide decision-making. Key objectives for this project include: maintaining monthly
operations, working with the CDC on survey revisions and system changes, work to
increase response rates among subpopulations, convene PRAMS Steering Committee,
educate healthcare providers and the public, analyze and disseminate data, utilize data
for policy development and program enhancements and protect human subjects.

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 9932187
- **Project number:** 5U01DP006222-05
- **Recipient organization:** RHODE ISLAND STATE DEPT OF HEALTH
- **Principal Investigator:** Samara I Viner-Brown
- **Activity code:** U01 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** ALLCDC
- **Fiscal year:** 2020
- **Award amount:** $141,000
- **Award type:** 5
- **Project period:** 2016-05-01 → 2021-04-30

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/9932187

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 9932187, Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System (PRAMS) (5U01DP006222-05). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-23 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/9932187. Licensed CC0.

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