To call or not to call: exploring the validity of telephone interviews to derive maternal self-reports of experiences with facility childbirth care in northern Nigeria

• Özge Tunçalp,
• Joanna Schellenberg,
• Zelee Hill,
• Tanya Marchant,
• Nasir Umar,
• Abdulrahman Shuaibu,
• Antoinette Alas Bhattacharya,
• Moise Muzigaba,
• Nuraddeen Umar Sambo

Affiliations

Özge Tunçalp

Reproductive Health and Research, WHO, Geneva, Switzerland

Joanna Schellenberg

London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, UK

Zelee Hill

Institute for Global Health, University College London, London, UK

Tanya Marchant

London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, UK

Nasir Umar

London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, UK

Abdulrahman Shuaibu

Office of the Executive Secretary, Gombe State Primary Health Care Development Agency, Gombe, Nigeria

Antoinette Alas Bhattacharya

Department of Disease Control, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine Faculty of Infectious and Tropical Diseases, London, UK

Moise Muzigaba

Department of Maternal, Newborn, Child and Adolescent Health and Ageing, World Health Organization, Geneve, Switzerland

Nuraddeen Umar Sambo

Data Research and Mapping Consult Limited, Abuja, FCT, Nigeria