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Validation of the verbal autopsy questionnaire for adult deaths in Iran

Background: Verbal Autopsy Questionnaire (VA) is an important tool to estimate the cause of death among those populations lacking an appropriate death registration system. In this study, the validity and reliability of verbal autopsy were assessed. Methods: The Persian version of the questionnaire w...

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Autores principales: Dehghan, Azizallah, Nasirian, Maryam, Haghdoost, Ali Akbar, Bahramali, Ehsan, Sharifi, Hamid
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Publicado: Iran University of Medical Sciences 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6108282/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30159258
http://dx.doi.org/10.14196/mjiri.32.7
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author Dehghan, Azizallah
Nasirian, Maryam
Haghdoost, Ali Akbar
Bahramali, Ehsan
Sharifi, Hamid
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Nasirian, Maryam
Haghdoost, Ali Akbar
Bahramali, Ehsan
Sharifi, Hamid
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description Background: Verbal Autopsy Questionnaire (VA) is an important tool to estimate the cause of death among those populations lacking an appropriate death registration system. In this study, the validity and reliability of verbal autopsy were assessed. Methods: The Persian version of the questionnaire was prepared using the translation and back- translation method. In the first and second phases of the study, 213 and 198 families of deceased persons accepted an invitation to complete the questionnaire. A physician determined the cause of death. These causes were compared with the registered cause of death on the death certificate. Sensitivity, specificity, positive predictive value (PPV), as well as the kappa statistic (between the first verbal autopsy questioning and death registry) were calculated to determine the validity of the questionnaire. Kappa statistic was also used to determine the reliability between the first and second questioning. Results: The sensitivity of the questionnaire varied from 75% among deaths due to diabetes to 100% Due to breast cancer. The specificity of the questionnaire for all causes of death was higher than 97%. PPV varied from 62.5% to 100% for all causes of death. The kappa statistic between causes of death derived from death certificate, and the first VA questioning for all causes of death was above 0.7 (p<0.001), and it was above 0.78 for the first and second verbal autopsy questioning (p<0.001). Conclusion: Although the Verbal Autopsy Questionnaire does not fully identify all causes of death, it can be a useful tool for diagnosing causes of death for those deceased persons who have no death certificate.
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spelling pubmed-61082822018-08-29 Validation of the verbal autopsy questionnaire for adult deaths in Iran Dehghan, Azizallah Nasirian, Maryam Haghdoost, Ali Akbar Bahramali, Ehsan Sharifi, Hamid Med J Islam Repub Iran Original Article Background: Verbal Autopsy Questionnaire (VA) is an important tool to estimate the cause of death among those populations lacking an appropriate death registration system. In this study, the validity and reliability of verbal autopsy were assessed. Methods: The Persian version of the questionnaire was prepared using the translation and back- translation method. In the first and second phases of the study, 213 and 198 families of deceased persons accepted an invitation to complete the questionnaire. A physician determined the cause of death. These causes were compared with the registered cause of death on the death certificate. Sensitivity, specificity, positive predictive value (PPV), as well as the kappa statistic (between the first verbal autopsy questioning and death registry) were calculated to determine the validity of the questionnaire. Kappa statistic was also used to determine the reliability between the first and second questioning. Results: The sensitivity of the questionnaire varied from 75% among deaths due to diabetes to 100% Due to breast cancer. The specificity of the questionnaire for all causes of death was higher than 97%. PPV varied from 62.5% to 100% for all causes of death. The kappa statistic between causes of death derived from death certificate, and the first VA questioning for all causes of death was above 0.7 (p<0.001), and it was above 0.78 for the first and second verbal autopsy questioning (p<0.001). Conclusion: Although the Verbal Autopsy Questionnaire does not fully identify all causes of death, it can be a useful tool for diagnosing causes of death for those deceased persons who have no death certificate. Iran University of Medical Sciences 2018-02-07 /pmc/articles/PMC6108282/ /pubmed/30159258 http://dx.doi.org/10.14196/mjiri.32.7 Text en © 2018 Iran University of Medical Sciences http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution NonCommercial 3.0 License (CC BY-NC 3.0), which allows users to read, copy, distribute and make derivative works for non-commercial purposes from the material, as long as the author of the original work is cited properly.
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Sharifi, Hamid
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6108282/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30159258
http://dx.doi.org/10.14196/mjiri.32.7
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