Shahidullah M
Maternal and Child Health-Family Planning Extension Project (Rural), International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh, Dhaka.
Stud Fam Plann. 1995 Mar-Apr;26(2):101-6.
This study reports the results of a test of validation of the sisterhood method of measuring the level of maternal mortality using data from a Demographic Surveillance System (DSS) operating since 1966 in Matlab, Bangladesh. The records of maternal deaths that occurred during 1976-90 in the Matlab DSS area were used. One of the deceased woman's surviving brothers or sisters, aged 15 or older and born to the same mother, was asked if the deceased sister had died of maternity-related causes. Of the 384 maternal deaths for which siblings were interviewed, 305 deaths were correctly reported, 16 deaths were underreported, and the remaining 63 were misreported as nonmaternal deaths. Information on maternity-related deaths obtained in a sisterhood survey conducted in the Matlab DSS area was compared with the information recorded in the DSS. Results suggest that in places similar to Matlab, the sisterhood method can be used to provide an indication of the level of maternal mortality if no other data exist, though the method will produce negative bias in maternal mortality estimates.
本研究报告了一项验证姐妹法测量孕产妇死亡率水平的测试结果，该测试使用了自1966年以来在孟加拉国马特莱开展的人口监测系统（DSS）的数据。研究采用了马特莱DSS地区1976 - 1990年期间发生的孕产妇死亡记录。询问了已故女性一名15岁及以上且与她同母所生的在世兄弟姐妹，该已故姐妹是否死于与孕产相关的原因。在接受访谈的384例孕产妇死亡案例中，305例死亡被正确报告，16例死亡报告不足，其余63例被错误报告为非孕产妇死亡。将在马特莱DSS地区进行的姐妹法调查中获得的与孕产相关死亡信息与DSS记录的信息进行了比较。结果表明，在与马特莱类似的地区，如果没有其他数据，姐妹法可用于提供孕产妇死亡率水平的一个指标，不过该方法在孕产妇死亡率估计中会产生负偏差。
