Sociodemographic and obstetric data on stillbirths from a Brazilian social program, 2008-2022
Description
This dataset presents sociodemographic and clinical information of pregnant women who suffered stillbirth in the state of Pernambuco covering the period from 2008 to 2022. This data was collected from the Mãe Coruja Pernambucana Program (PMCP), a former social program under the Sistema Único de Saúde (SUS). The PMCP operated in the state of Pernambuco, Brazil and it was active in 105 municipalities, primarily in vulnerable areas of the population. This program monitored mothers and children up to 5 years old, providing health support, educational assistance, and social and family care. This dataset contains two CSV files: the "dataset.csv" file contains the pre-processed data set, and the "attributes.csv" file contains information about each attribute.
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Initially, this dataset contained 231,505 records and 71 attributes. These attributes included information on various aspects of pregnancy and women’s health, such as obstetric history, previously diagnosed comorbidities, social information, residential and healthcare unit data, prenatal and postpartum data, personal details, and information about the newborn. In the data preprocessing steps, attributes related to residential information, geographic location codes, health post unit, and information not relevant to the study were removed. We created an online form containing all the 35 attributes present in the dataset so that healthcare professionals could select information they considered more important to predict fetal death. We received 10 responses from healthcare professionals, including pediatric and obstetric doctors, neonatal nurses, specialists in family and child health, a social worker and public health specialist. In the end, the dataset contained 20 attributes and 231,505 records, of which 7,429 correspond to stillbirths and 224,076 to live births, encompassing information about the mother, health and family history, and obstetric data prior to pregnancy.