# Component A: [Core] Massachusetts Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System (PRAMS)

> **NIH ALLCDC U01** · MASSACHUSETTS STATE DEPT OF PUB HEALTH · 2020 · $165,919

## Abstract

Project Summary/Abstract
 The overall goal of the Massachusetts Department of Public Health's Pregnancy
Risk Assessment Monitoring System (PRAMS) is to collect data to improve the health of
infants and mothers in the preconception, perinatal, or postpartum periods.
Massachusetts (MA) has implemented PRAMS since 2007. PRAMS data were the first
to quantify the oral health needs of pregnant and postpartum women in MA, and served
as a catalyst to developing the MA Perinatal Oral Health Practice Guidelines for
Pregnancy and Early Childhood. Concerning other areas of interest, reliable data are
even more limited or nonexistent. For example, MA did not have population-based data
on postpartum depression. PRAMS data supported the passage of “An Act Relative to
Postpartum Depression” bill in 2010 and since then new programs such as the
Massachusetts Child Psychiatry Access Project (MCPAP) for Moms have begun to
address maternal depression in MA. In addition, PRAMS data supported the selection of
a mental health priority for the MA five-year Maternal and Child Health Title V Block
Grant by including questions on social connectedness.
 MA is in a unique position to conduct linkages with its Pregnancy to Early Life
Longitudinal (PELL) data system, a longitudinal database which includes a range of
datasets linked together. Linkage of PRAMS and PELL data provides an innovative,
longitudinal data system with a range of information on preconception and
interconception health and health care utilization. It enables an assessment of the
associations between maternal characteristics, experiences, attitudes and behaviors
before, during and shortly after pregnancy with longer-term health outcomes (e.g.
maternal and infant mortality, and subsequent maternal and infant hospital utilization and
associated costs), which cannot be ascertained from a linkage of PRAMS data to birth
certificate data alone.
 PRAMS methodology uses a mail survey with telephone follow up to inquire
about maternal attitudes, experiences and behaviors. There are approximately 72,000
births annually, of which 2,400 are sampled for inclusion in MA PRAMS. The overall
weighted response rate was 66.1%, 68.5%, and 67.5%, for 2010, 2011, and 2012,
respectively.

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 9935984
- **Project number:** 5U01DP006202-05
- **Recipient organization:** MASSACHUSETTS STATE DEPT OF PUB HEALTH
- **Principal Investigator:** Hafsatou Diop
- **Activity code:** U01 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** ALLCDC
- **Fiscal year:** 2020
- **Award amount:** $165,919
- **Award type:** 5
- **Project period:** 2016-05-01 → 2021-04-30

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/9935984

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 9935984, Component A: [Core] Massachusetts Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System (PRAMS) (5U01DP006202-05). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-24 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/9935984. Licensed CC0.

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