READ ME File For Emergency obstetric and newborn care quality assessment census in Eastern region, Ghana Dataset DOI: https://doi.org/10.5258/SOTON/D2612 Date that the file was created: Dec, 2021 ------------------- GENERAL INFORMATION ------------------- ReadMe Author: Winfred Dotse-Gborgbortsi, University of Southampton ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7627-1809 Date of data collection: August 2021 to October 2021 Information about geographic location of data collection: Eastern Region, Ghana Related projects: PhD project titled: Spatial patterns of birthing service use in Eastern Region, Ghana -------------------------- SHARING/ACCESS INFORMATION -------------------------- Licenses/restrictions placed on the data, or limitations of reuse: Recommended citation for the data: Dotse-Gborgbortsi, W., W (2021) 'Emergency obstetric and newborn care quality assessment census in Eastern region, Ghana'. This dataset supports the publications: Dotse-Gborgbortsi, WW, Tatem, A, Matthews, Z, Alegana, VA, Ofosu, A & Wright, J (2023) 'Quality of maternal healthcare and travel time influence birthing service utilisation in Ghanaian health facilities: a geographical analysis of routine health data', BMJ Open, 13(1), p. e066792. http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2022-066792 -------------------- DATA & FILE OVERVIEW -------------------- This dataset contains: Consent form: Consent form showing data sharing, voluntary participation, anonymity, and data archiving statements. Participant information form: The participant information form includes information about the nature of the study, funding, benefits, length of study, compensation, confidentiality, variables to be collected, voluntary participation and withdrawal, dissemination, contacts for further information, privacy and data protection. Questionnaire: The questionnaire shows the questions asked and their sequence. Variables collected are described in the methods section below. Variable codebook: The codebook has two columns. First the question which matches questions and their sequence on the questionnaire while the second column contains the short variable codes/names on the data file. Data: The datafile contains the responses collected. Relationship between files, if important for context: The consent and participant information forms were administered before data was collected with the questionnaire. The data collected is in the data file and the variable codebook details the short name for each variable in the data file and the associated question. Additional related data collected that was not included in the current data package: For each of the health facilities surveyed, the details of women giving birth from January to December 2017 were collected. These records are not included due to data ownership. -------------------------- METHODOLOGICAL INFORMATION -------------------------- The data was collected as part of a PhD project. The objective of collecting the data was to examine the availability and readiness of health facilities to provide emergency obstetric and newborn care services in the Eastern Region of Ghana. Thus, the data was used to construct a quality care index to assess health facilities and predict the use of birthing services. The data is from a cross-sectional census of health facilities offering birthing services in the Eastern Region of Ghana. A census of all health facilities routinely providing birthing services was conducted in from August to October 2021. Any health facility with an average of five or more women giving birth per month in 2017 was included in the needs assessment. The data collection was carried out in two stages. The first part of data collection was interviewing at health facilities. Computer-assisted personal interviews were carried out with the kobotoolbox app on a mobile phone device. All eligible health facilities were visited for interviews from 6th August to 16th October 2021. The most senior midwife or the midwife-in-charge was interviewed in each health facility. Before the interviews commenced, the midwife read the participant's information and signed an informed consent form. All midwives at the health facilities consented and were interviewed. All eligible health facilities were visited. The data collected was about but not limited to ten maternal health quality domains. These domains are: human resource capacity, signal functions, medicines, non-medical supplies, amenities or infrastructure, referral system, staff morale or motivation, privacy, staff training and Water Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH). The study received ethical approval from the University of Southampton (Ethics ID: 54944) and the Ghana Health Service’s (Ethics ID GHS-ERC008/05/20) ethics committees. The data collection methods are also described in this publication: Dotse-Gborgbortsi, WW, Tatem, A, Matthews, Z, Alegana, VA, Ofosu, A & Wright, J (2023) 'Quality of maternal healthcare and travel time influence birthing service utilisation in Ghanaian health facilities: a geographical analysis of routine health data', BMJ Open, 13(1), p. e066792. http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2022-066792 Methods for processing the data: The data is the raw collected data unprocessed. Only identifiable information about the name and location of health facilities were excluded. Environmental/experimental conditions: The data was collected in health facilities. At the health facility, the midwife-in-charge was interviewed. Describe any quality-assurance procedures performed on the data: The data was collected via electronic mobile phones that enabled data constraints to be implemented for data quality. Question skip patterns were automated. Variable types such as text, numbers, dates, geographic coordinates (excluded in archive to ensure anonymity of health facilities) were constrained to ensure the right data was collected. People involved with sample collection, processing, analysis and/or submission: The primary researcher and three research assistants visited the health facilities to collect data. -------------------------- DATA-SPECIFIC INFORMATION -------------------------- Number of variables: 338 Number of cases/rows: 152 Variable list are detailed in the variable_cookbook.rtf file. The data is unprocessed and uncoded except checkboxes. Hence, the values for the variables contained in the data are the responses/labels. Checkboxes that were ticked/checked are coded 1 and 0 otherwise.