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AFRICAN RESEARCH NEXUS
SHINING A SPOTLIGHT ON AFRICAN RESEARCH
medicine
Can recall of birth size be used as a measure of birthweight in Cameroon?
Paediatric and Perinatal Epidemiology, Volume 24, No. 4, Year 2010
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Paediatric and Perinatal Epidemiology 2010. Birthweight is a key predictor of future life outcomes. When this information is not available we must rely on maternal recall of weight or size. We evaluated the use of maternal recall of size as an indicator for birthweight, using data from the 2004 Demographic and Health Survey in Cameroon. The overall agreement between recorded and recalled weight and subjective assessment of birth size was 90% (Kappa = 0.46). Concordant descriptions were associated with higher birthweights (P < 0.001), higher education (P = 0.008) and delivery in a health unit (P = 0.025). Specificity for low birthweight (92.9%) was much higher than sensitivity (59.9%) and the negative predictive value (96.1%) was much higher than the positive predictive value (44.4%). These results indicate that recall of size, in Cameroonian women and in other low resource settings, should be used only in the absence of other sources of data. © 2010 Blackwell Publishing Ltd.
Authors & Co-Authors
Mbuagbaw, Lawrence C.E.
Cameroon
Bafut District Hospital
Gofin, Rosa
Israel, Jerusalem
Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Statistics
Citations: 24
Authors: 2
Affiliations: 2
Identifiers
Doi:
10.1111/j.1365-3016.2010.01128.x
ISSN:
02695022
e-ISSN:
13653016
Research Areas
Maternal And Child Health
Study Design
Cross Sectional Study
Study Approach
Quantitative
Study Locations
Cameroon
Participants Gender
Female