Additionally, national surveys conducted by Statistics Canada, such as the Canadian Community Health Survey [ 23, 24] and the Maternity Experience Survey [ 25, 26], also rely on maternal recall of events that occurred during labour and delivery and data from EHRs are not always accessible for research purposes due to cost and time restraints that may prohibit access.
to examine postpartum maternal recall of their intentions to exclusively breast feed among breastfeeding women and identify its predictors.
Objective: The purpose of this study was to assess the accuracy of maternal recall of key events during their most recent delivery.
In evaluating maternal recall of child deaths from all causes in Bangladesh, no difference was found between one and five years post-incident (Halder et al. 2009).
In addition, reliability of maternal recall of BW was assessed.
A review of studies of maternal recall of hypertension in pregnancy reported a specificity ranging from 96%to100%0% for maternal recall of preeclampsia [ 21].
(d) Maternal recall of number of infant diarrhoeal episodes since birth [ 36, 37].
Studies on the health benefits from breastfeeding often rely on maternal recall of breastfeeding.
Maternal recall of vaccination coverage was similarly high across all vaccinations (ranging from 0.94 to 0.98).
Maternal recall of BW and GA seems to be sufficiently accurate for clinical and epidemiological use.
Previous validation studies suggest moderate to good maternal recall of pregnancy complications [ 40, 41].
