Maternal reports of morbidity during the index ALSPAC pregnancy

Genette Ellis; Abigail Fraser; Jean Golding; Yasmin Iles-Caven; Kate Northstone

doi:10.12688/wellcomeopenres.17900.2

Maternal reports of morbidity during the index ALSPAC pregnancy

Wellcome Open Res. 2022 Oct 31:7:163. doi: 10.12688/wellcomeopenres.17900.2. eCollection 2022.

Authors

Genette Ellis¹, Abigail Fraser¹, Jean Golding¹, Yasmin Iles-Caven¹, Kate Northstone¹

Affiliation

¹ Bristol Medical School (Population Health Sciences), University of Bristol, Bristol, Bristol, BS8 2BN, UK.

Abstract

Within the ALSPAC (Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children) resource, information concerning the health of the mother during pregnancy is available from three sources: (i) computerised data collected by midwives after the birth of the baby, known as the STORK database; (ii) data abstracted by ALSPAC staff from detailed medical obstetric records, and (iii) reports by mothers during pregnancy, and shortly after the birth using structured questionnaires completed at home. In this Data Note we focus on source (iii), and detail the information obtained from these mothers concerning their health, signs and symptoms together with medications and supplements taken during pregnancy. We also describe how the data can be accessed.

Keywords: ALSPAC; Maternal health; Medications; Morbidity; Pregnancy; Supplements.