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Let's talk about death: data collection for verbal autopsies in a demographic and health surveillance site in Malaysia.
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- Perinatal mortality in eastern Africa: A systematic review and meta-analysis.International journal of gynaecology and obstetrics: the official organ of the International Federation of Gynaecology and Obstetrics · 2026Pooled it
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- Comparison of causes of stillbirth and child deaths as determined by verbal autopsy and minimally invasive tissue sampling.PLOS global public health · 2024Article
- Ethical and cultural implications for conducting verbal autopsies in South and Southeast Asia: a qualitative study.BMJ global health · 2023Article
- Regularized Bayesian transfer learning for population-level etiological distributions.Biostatistics (Oxford, England) · 2021Article
- The ethical implications of verbal autopsy: responding to emotional and moral distress.BMC medical ethics · 2021Article
- Defining malaria risks among forest workers in Aceh, Indonesia: a formative assessment.Malaria journal · 2020Article
- Cause-specific mortality estimates for Malaysia in 2013: results from a national sample verification study using medical record review and verbal autopsy.BMC public health · 2019Article
- HDSS Profile: The South East Asia Community Observatory Health and Demographic Surveillance System (SEACO HDSS).International journal of epidemiology · 2017Article
- Validation of verbal autopsy: determination of cause of deaths in Malaysia 2013.BMC public health · 2017Article
- Difficulties in estimating the human burden of canine rabies.Acta tropica · 2017Review
- Conducting verbal autopsy by telephone interview during the pandemic to support mortality surveillance: a feasibility study in Malaysia.Western Pacific surveillance and response journal : WPSARArticle
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Abstract
backgroundVerbal autopsies have gained considerable ground as an acceptable alternative to medically determined cause of death. Unlike with clinical or more administrative settings for data collection, verbal autopsies require significant involvement of families and communities, which introduces important social and cultural considerations. However, there is very little clear guidance about the methodological issues in data collection. The objectives of this case study were: to explore the range of bereavement rituals within the multi-ethnic, multi-faith population of the district; to investigate the preparedness of communities to talk about death; to describe the verbal autopsy process; to assess the effects of collecting verbal autopsy data on data collectors; and to determine the most accurate sources of information about deaths in the community.
methodsA case study approach was used, using focus group discussions, indepth interviews and field notes. Thematic analyses were undertaken using NVivo.
resultsConsideration of cultural bereavement practices is importance to acceptance and response rates to verbal autopsies. They are also important to the timing of verbal autopsy interviews. Well trained data collectors, regardless of health qualifications are able to collect good quality data, but debriefing is important to their health and well being. This article contributes to guidance on the data collection procedures for verbal autopsies within community settings.
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