Nepal Maternal Health Study on Breastfeeding Timing and Postpartum Depression

898 mother-infant pairs from a longitudinal multi-centric cohort study across 9 district hospitals in Nepal. Data includes timing of breastfeeding initiation, sociodemographic variables, and postpartum depressive symptoms assessed via the Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale at multiple intervals. The dataset was created by author KC Ashish and is available under a CC-BY-4.0 license.

Use Cases

• Assessing the association between delayed breastfeeding initiation and postpartum depression risk based on the study's primary findings.
• Modeling longitudinal changes in depression scores using the repeated measures data collected at 7, 45, and 90 days postpartum.
• Investigating sociodemographic confounding and mediating factors in maternal mental health outcomes as described in the analysis.
• Evaluating the generalizability of findings to specific subgroups, such as women from disadvantaged groups or with no education.

Strengths

• Includes data from 898 mother-infant pairs, providing a substantial sample size for analysis.
• Longitudinal design with depressive symptoms assessed at multiple time points (7, 45, and 90 days postpartum).
• Multi-centric collection across 9 district hospitals in Nepal, likely capturing geographic diversity.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• The dataset is very small (21.6 KB), indicating limited scope or potentially summarized data.

Provenance

Source

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Collection Method

Longitudinal multi-centric cohort study.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-15 05:31:19; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Nepal (9 district hospitals)