About this table

Description	Media and interpersonal sources of information on postpartum depression, 14 agreement items (VAR00081/VAR00082 share a stem in the deposit), 1 strongly disagree - 5 strongly agree; N = 519 women in Yobe and Niger states, Nigeria; cov_state, cov_age, cov_education, cov_employment, cov_income, cov_marital_status, cov_religion, cov_children.
Reference	Omale, G., Oyesomi, K., Oladosun, M., & Bamigbolayin-Afolabi, O. (2025). Dataset on socio-demographic predictors of help-seeking for postpartum depression in Northern Nigeria. Mendeley Data, V1. https://doi.org/10.17632/2tzj5m5kp4
Licence	CC BY 4.0
Source data	https://data.mendeley.com/datasets/2tzj5m5kp4

Notes

Items VAR00081 and VAR00082 carry the same stem in the deposit; VAR00082's wording is unknown.

These notes describe the source data, which the IRW reproduces as released. All notes are listed on the Data Notes page.

Size and shape

Responses	7,266
Respondents	519
Items	14
Response categories	5
Responses per respondent	14
Responses per item	519
Density	1
Longitudinal	FALSE

Classification

age range	Adult (18+)
sample	Targeted/specific
construct type	Opinion/attitude
measurement tool	Survey/questionnaire
item format	Likert Scale/selected response
primary language(s)	eng
construct name	Information sources on postpartum depression

Codebook

This codebook is reconstructed by the IRW from the IRW data standard and the script that built it, omale_2025_ppd_help_seeking.py. It is our best reading, not the source’s own codebook, and it may contain mistakes. Where the two disagree, the source data are the authority. If you find an error, please tell us.

Column	What it is	Source column
IRW standard columns
`id`	IRW standard Identifier for the focal unit being measured — typically a person, but sometimes another entity (e.g., a word in a lexical task).	made in the build script
`item`	IRW standard Item identifier.	made in the build script
`resp`	IRW standard Response value.	made in the build script
Respondent covariates
`cov_age`	Covariate	`Age`
`cov_children`	Covariate	`Number_of_Children`
`cov_education`	Covariate	`Educational_qualification`
`cov_employment`	Covariate	`Employement_Status`
`cov_income`	Covariate	`Monthly_Income_Earning`
`cov_marital_status`	Covariate	`Marital_Status`
`cov_religion`	Covariate	`Religion`
`cov_state`	Covariate	`States`

What item codes and covariate values stand for is in the codebook released with the source data.

Get the data

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Or load it directly in R or Python (both need a free Redivis account; the first call opens a browser to sign in):

# R
install.packages("remotes")
remotes::install_github("itemresponsewarehouse/Rpkg")
library(irw)
df <- irw_fetch("omale_2025_ppd_info_sources")

# Python
pip install irw

import irw
df = irw.fetch("omale_2025_ppd_info_sources")

How to cite

@misc{https://doi.org/10.17632/2tzj5m5kp4,
  doi = {10.17632/2TZJ5M5KP4},
  url = {https://data.mendeley.com/datasets/2tzj5m5kp4},
  author = {Omale, Gloria and Oyesomi, Kehinde and Oladosun, Muyiwa and Bamigbolayin-Afolabi, Oluwafolafunmi and Adesina, Evaristus and Aluko, Afolayan},
  keywords = {Communication, Health Communication, Maternal Health},
  title = {DATASET ON SOCIO-DEMOGRAPHIC PREDICTORS OF HELP-SEEKING FOR POSTPARTUM DEPRESSION IN NORTHERN NIGERIA},
  publisher = {Mendeley Data},
  year = {2025}
}

Version and provenance

IRW version	v584
Redivis dataset	item_response_warehouse_7 v1.1
Redivis dataset DOI	10.57761/7pd3-sh31
Manifest pin for this IRW version	v1.0
Metadata source	irw_meta v44.0

omale_2025_ppd_info_sources