National Pregnancy and Health Survey: Drug Use Among Women Delivering Live Births (NPHS-1992)

<p>The primary objective of the National Pregnancy and Health<br /> Survey (NPHS) was to produce national annual estimates of the<br /> percentages and numbers of mothers of live newborns in the United<br /> States who used selected licit and illicit drugs in the 12 months<br /> prior to delivery. A further objective was to describe patterns of<br /> prenatal substance use among demographic subgroups of<br /> women. Information on demographic and socioeconomic characteristics,<br /> obstetric history, and drug treatment of women who delivered infants<br /> at sampled hospitals was obtained through an interviewer-administered<br /> questionnaire, while data on substance use before and during pregnancy<br /> were collected through a questionnaire completed by the respondent and<br /> concealed from the interviewer. Respondents were asked about use of<br /> the following substances: alcohol, amphetamines, analgesics, cocaine,<br /> crack cocaine, barbiturates, hallucinogens, hashish, heroin,<br /> marijuana, methadone, methamphetamine, sedatives, stimulants, tobacco,<br /> and tranquilizers. Additionally, information was collected on the<br /> respondent's pregnancy, prenatal care, delivery, previous pregnancies,<br /> and background. Additional data were obtained from the mothers' and<br /> infants' medical records. Urine specimens collected routinely by the<br /> hospital on obstetric admissions were tested for selected<br /> drugs. Finally, in a subsample of six hospitals, hair specimens were<br /> requested from respondents to evaluate the potential of hair as a<br /> source of toxicological data in future studies.This study has 1 Data Set.</p>