Women's recall of maternal and newborn interventions received in the postnatal period: a validity study in Kenya and Swaziland.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Despite the concentration of maternal and infant deaths in the early postnatal period, information on the content and quality of postnatal care interventions is not routinely collected in most low and middle-income countries. At present, data on the coverage of postnatal care interventions mostly rely on women's reports collected in household surveys, such as the Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) and Multiple Indicator Cluster Surveys (MICS), which collect limited information. We assessed the validity of a set of postnatal care indicators that reflect a range of recommended interventions for both mother and newborn and have potential to be included in household surveys for monitoring of population-level coverage.

Methods

We compared women's reports in exit inte

SUBMITTER: McCarthy KJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5983915 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature