Table 2 Definition of some variables
From: Maternal mortality study in the Eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo
Variables | Définitions | Types | Modalities | Rationale | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Sociodemographic, clinical and therapeutic characteristics of respondents | |||||
 Age | This is the age range of respondents between: ≤ 19 and ≥ 35 years Continuous and categorical |  ≤ 19 20–24 25–29 30–34 ≥ 35 | May explain maternal mortality | ||
 Educational level, | These are the trainings that the respondent had taken: either primary, secondary or higher or nothing at all | categorical | Unschooled Primary Secondary Superior | May explain maternal mortality | |
 Profession | These are activities that the respondent performs in life | categorical | Unemployed Farmer Pupil Trader Official | May explain maternal mortality | |
 Religion | This is the church in which the respondent prays | categorical | Muslim Catholic Protestant Kimbanguist Church of awakening Other (s) to be specified | May explain maternal mortality | |
 Marital status | This is the marital status of the respondent who lives in union or alone | categorical | Married Single Divorcee Widow | May explain maternal mortality | |
 Parity | These are the number of deliveries that the respondent has already experienced in her life | categorical | Primiparité(1accouch) Paucipares (2 accouch) Multipares (3–5 accouch) Grande multipares (6 accouch et plus) | May explain maternal mortality | |
 Gesture | These are the numbers of pregnancies that the respondent has already had | categorical | Too early (before 19 years old) Too much reproached (before 2 years) Too many (more than 5 deliveries) Too late (over 35) | May explain maternal mortality | |
 Prenatal care (ANC) | These are the numbers of times the respondent attended antenatal care sessions according to the immunization schedule | categorical | ANC 0 ANC 1 ANC 2 ANC 3 ANC 4 | May explain maternal mortality | |
 Use of partograph | This concerns the use of the partograph by nursing staff for monitoring the labor and delivery of respondent | dichotomo us | Yes No Not available | May explain maternal mortality | |
 Liability (3 delays) | This is the responsibility for the occurrence of the death of a parturient | categorical | R1 (Delay in decision-making by the parturient or the family, R2. (Late arrival at the structure) R3. (Delay in taking charge) | May explain maternal mortality | |
Variables relating to the timing of maternal deaths | |||||
 Times of death | This is the period during which the death of the respondent woman occurred | categorical | Prepartum Perpartum Postpartum | Important variable | |
Variables relating to the causes of death in kindergartens | |||||
 Direct causes of maternal mortality | These are the direct medical causes which caused the death of the respondent | categorical | Bleeding, Infections Eclampsia Abortions Obstructed labor Uterine rupture | Important variable | |
 Indirect causes of maternal mortality | These are the indirect medical causes which caused the death of the respondent | categorical | Anemia Malaria Tuberculosis HIV / AIDS Gastrointestinal bleeding Diabetes Pulmonary embolism Cardiovascular patients Kidney failure | Important variable | |