Data & Statistical Reports

Data collection for Missouri PRAMS began in 2007 and is ongoing. The Missouri Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System (PRAMS) a comprehensive assessment of attitudes and experiences before, during and shortly after pregnancy among Missouri women.

PRAMS Fact Sheets

• 2020 Tobacco Use Before, During, and After Pregnancy
• Maternal Tobacco Use in Missouri
• Awareness of Zika Virus in Missouri
• Infographic: Smoking Before, During and After Pregnancy
• Safe Infant Sleep Patterns
• Gestational Diabetes During Pregnancy
• Intimate Partner Violence Before and During Pregnancy
• Breastfeeding Initiation and Continuation
• Postpartum Depression
• Flu Vaccination Among Pregnant Women

Previous Reports

• 2016 Data Report
• 2015 Data Report
• 2015 Data Report
• 2014 Data Report
• 2007 - 2009 Data Report
• 2009 - 2011 Data Report

For more recent data, visit the PRAMS dashboard.

Journal Publications

1. Norton PJ, Mosley M, McBride DG, Garikapaty VP. Factors in accessing routine health care: mental health and postpartum mothers. Missouri Medicine 2019; 116(4): 325-30.
2. Kramer BA, Kintzel J, Garikapaty V.  Association between contraceptive use and gestational diabetes: Missouri Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System, 2007-2008. Prev Chronic Dis 2014; 11:140059.
3. Weiser TM, Lin M, Garikapaty V, Feyerharm RW, Bensyl DM, Zhu BP. Association of maternal smoking status with breastfeeding practices: Missouri, 2005. Pediatrics 2009; 124(6):1603-10.
4. Garikapaty VP, Feyerharm R, Zhu B. Folic acid consumption among Missouri women in the periconceptional period. Mo Med 2008;105(6):504-9.

Selected Oral/Poster Presentations

1. Giles L, Brooks A 2022 Reproductive coercion and postpartum depression association: Findings from Missouri PRAMS (2012-2020) Poster presented at the CityMatch Maternal and Child Health Leadership Conference, Chicago, September 2022.
2. McBride DG, Garikapaty V 2015 Multivariate associations among life-course indicators: what more can we learn? Poster presented at the CDC Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System (PRAMS) Annual Meeting, Atlanta, Georgia, October, 2015.
3. Mosley M, McBride DG, Garikapaty V 2015 Factors affecting smoking cessation during pregnancy. Paper presented at the CDC Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System (PRAMS) Annual Meeting, Atlanta, Georgia, October, 2015.
4. McBride DG, Mosley M 2015 The Missouri Child Health Assessment Program Survey (MoCHAPS). Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services, Office of Epidemiology, Epi Grand Rounds. Webcast, September, 2015.
5. Garikapaty V. Missouri PRAMS, 2007-2011: A Summary. Presented to the March of Dimes Statewide Perinatal Conference, Columbia, Missouri, Nov 2014.
6. Garikapaty V. Racial disparities in perinatal health outcomes: Epidemiology and beyond. Presented to the Missouri Bootheel Regional Consortium, Low Birth Weight Conference, Miner, Missouri, Apr, 2014.
7. Garikapaty V. Preterm births and infant mortality in Missouri. Keynote address, to the March of Dimes Prematurity Summit, Columbia, Missouri, Nov, 2013.