Maternal and newborn health project in Gombe state, northeast Nigeria. Data from clinical observations, exit interviews, follow up surveys between 2016 and 2019

Permanent identifier

https://doi.org/10.17037/DATA.00001709

Description

This collection comprises the survey instruments and datasets for the clinical observations and exit interviews which were conducted twice a year by the IDEAS II project in Gombe State, North-East Nigeria between May 2016 and August 2019. Data were collected to: (1) support local decision makers; and (2) improve measurement of priority indicators for maternal and newborn health using data from observation of births in health facilities as gold-standard to test the validity of maternal reports on care provided, and evaluate the reliability of different data sources to provide comparable estimates.

Data collection methods

Gombe State, clinical observations of facility based childbirth were completed in the 10 primary care facilities with the highest number of births in the preceding six months, as recorded in the facility maternity registers at November 2015. Six rounds of data collection took place. Each round lasted three weeks, during which time around 350 women were observed during labour and delivery.

The content of the checklist was developed from the USAID-funded Maternal and Child Health Integrated Program’s tool for observing vaginal births and the following complications: postpartum haemorrhage, pre-eclampsia/eclampsia and newborn asphyxia. Before discharge, exit interviews were also completed with those observed women who had a healthy newborn at the time of discharge.

Data access

This collection is held for preservation purposes only. No access will be provided for the following reasons:

1. Datasets contains information that may be used to identify research participants in some scenarios;
2. Ethics approval and participant consent was provided on the basis that data would remain confidential. Any data sharing would require approval by the relevant ethics committees.

Geographic regions

Gombe state, northeast Nigeria

Key dates

Data collected between May 2016 and August 2019

Population

The respondents were women who were admitted for childbirth, post partum haemorrhage, pre-eclampsia/eclampsia or newborn resuscitation.

Privacy

The following modifications were made to the datasets and/or survey documentation to reduce the disclosure risk to research participants.

• Direct identifiers on individuals observed, including client’s name, name of individual who took delivery, name of clinical mentor, were removed
• Health facility locators were removed
• Any details of the client’s address, including description of how to locate clients house, household head name, name of village leader, mobile number were removed.

To preserve the anonymity of individual survey participants, the following modifications have been made to the datasets and/or survey documentation:

• any geographical information below that of zone has been removed.
• any names relating to clusters (i.e. village or Health Centre names) have been removed.
• all GPS co-ordinates have been removed (including those for health facilities which are in a similar vicinity to household clusters)
• all names of individuals and their children have been removed.
• individuals are only identified by numbers which were generated by these surveys and which are not associated with data held by any other organisation.
• Unique identifiers: Observation and exit interview unique IDS are LGA code/facility code/observation number

Keywords

Maternal, Newborn, Gombe, Nigeria, Clinical observations, Exit interviews, Quality of care, Respectful care, Experience of care, Labour, Delivery, Childbirth

Language of written material

English

Project information

Creators

Associated roles

Data access

This collection is held for preservation purposes only. No access will be provided for the following reasons:

1. Datasets contains information that may be used to identify research participants in some scenarios;
2. Ethics approval and participant consent was provided on the basis that data would remain confidential. Any data sharing would require approval by the relevant ethics committees.

File description

The following files are held for preservation purposes. Please direct any questions to the research team.