We will audio record the first 10 interviews of parents who give verbal consent; interviewers will code parental responses from these ten interviews and inter-rater reliability coefficients will be calculated.
Village-based scouts notified verbal autopsy interviewers of deaths, including maternal deaths, stillbirths, and neonatal deaths, as they occurred.
There it was recommended that verbal autopsy interviewers should pay particular attention to local death cause classifications, pre-and post-mortem.
Out of the 659 women who died from non-pregnancy-related causes between 2001 and 2007, physician interviewers completed 599 verbal autopsy interviews.
Costs were classified in terms of: identification of births and deaths; eliminating deaths to women of reproductive age that were not maternal, late maternal or pregnancy related by interviewers; interviews, verbal autopsies; and data management (including database design, data entry by data entry clerk and data analysis by a number of project staff, and associated equipment).
Since they provided verbal consent, the interviewer put a tick mark in the "I Agree" box on the form in the presence of a witness.
After verbal consent, the interviewer invited the interviewee to tell him/her a story: "Please tell me a story describing what you think is the most significant change in your life as a result of your involvement in BVV".
Conversely, with verbal probing the interviewer reads each item on an assessment tool to the caregiver, records their response, and uses either retrospective or concurrent probing to solicit information on the items and basis for the caregiver's response.
While there is some disagreement among researchers about what constitutes good quality transcription [ 16, 18], for the purposes of this audit we characterize a high quality interview transcript as a complete and accurate reflection of the verbal exchange between the interviewer and interviewee during the interview.
Telephone interviews prevented the interviewer gathering non-verbal contextual information, although this form of interview was more acceptable to participants than a face-to-face interview.
