How well do mothers recall their own and their infants' perinatal events? A two-district study using cross-sectional stratified random sampling in Bihar, India.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Global monitoring of maternal, newborn and child health (MNCH) programmes use self-reported data subject to recall error which may lead to incorrect decisions for improving health services and wasted resources. To minimise this risk, samples of mothers of infants aged 0-2 and 3-5 months are sometimes used. We test whether a single sample of mothers of infants aged 0-5 months provides the same information.

Design

An annual MNCH household survey in two districts of Bihar, India (n=6 million).

Participants

Independent samples (n=475 each) of mothers of infants aged 0-5, 0-2 and 3-5 months.

Outcome measures

Main analyses compare responses from the samples of infants aged 0-5 and 0-2 months with Mantel-Haenszel-Cochran statistics using 51 indicators in two

SUBMITTER: Valadez JJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6937048 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature