Communitywide Pregnancy Reporting in Kauai, Hawaii

French, Fern E.; Howe, Louisa P.; Bierman, Jessie M.; Connor, Angie; Kemp, Dorothy

doi:10.2307/4590044

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“…In some U.S. hospitals, the assembling of data from the hospital's own records, the patient's private physician, and other sources has been effective (4). Periodic household visits have been used successfully among villagers in the State of Punjab, India (5), and with the population of an isolated community in Kauai, Hawaii (6). In the United States, monthly or semimonthly household visits have been effective in checking health information (7); menstrual data were also obtained during such visits (according to a personal communication from Dr. S. M. Wishik, International Institute of Human Reproduction, Columbia University, New York City).…”

Section: Possible Methods For Data Collectionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Use of Telephone Interviewing to Study Human Reproduction

Mooney¹,

Pollack²,

Corsa³

1968

Public Health Reports (1896-1970)

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It is well known that specific agents active in the early months of pregnancy may cause certain congenital malformations. German measles was reoognized in the 1940's as one cause; more recently thalidomide taken by mothers early in pregnancy was found to be responsible for deformities in thousands of babies. These and similar discoveries have spurred the search for other agents operating early in pregnancy.On pursuing such research, however, one may find no routine medical records of factors of possible relevance. Hence, existing sources of data concerning events early in pregnancy need to be supplemented (1). The time of collection of the data from the mother is crucial. Gathering information at the end of pregnancy may introduce serious biases. For example, the mother of a malformed child, seeking a reason for the child's defect, is more likely to recall and report unusual events during pregnancy than is the mother of a nornal child (2).Obtaining the desired information at the time of the woman's first prenatal visit to the physician should reduce these biases, but difficulties in recall would still remain. Even among women obtaining prenatal care in the first trimester, only a small proportion start such care

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confidence: 99%