Validity of maternal report of care-seeking for childhood illness.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Accurate data on care-seeking for child illness are needed to improve public health programs and reduce child mortality. The accuracy of maternal report of care-seeking for child illness as collected through household surveys has not been validated.

Methods

A 2016 survey compared reported care-seeking against a gold-standard of health care provider documented care-seeking events among a random sample of mothers of children <5 years in Southern Province, Zambia. Enrolled children were assigned cards with unique barcodes. Seventy-five health care providers were given smartphones with a barcode reader and instructed to scan the cards of participating children seeking care at the source, generating an electronic record of the care-seeking event. Additionally, provider

SUBMITTER: Carter ED 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5854307 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature