Investigating the feasibility of child mortality surveillance with postmortem tissue sampling: generating constructs and variables to strengthen validity and reliability in qualitative research

The Child Health and Mortality Prevention Surveillance (CHAMPS) network aims to generate reliable data on the causes of death among children aged <5 years using all available information, including minimally invasive tissue sampling (MITS). The sensitive nature of MITS inevitably evokes religious, cultural, and ethical questions influencing the feasibility and sustainability of CHAMPS.Due to limited behavioral studies related to child MITS, we developed an innovative qualitative methodology to determine the barriers, facilitators, and other factors that affect the implementation and sustainability of CHAMPS surveillance across 7 diverse locations in sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia. We employed a multimethod grounded theory approach and analytical structure based on culturally specific conceptual frameworks. The methodology guided data interpretation and collective analyses confirming how to define dimensions of CHAMPS feasibility within the cultural context of each site while reducing subjectivity and bias in the process of interpretation and reporting.Findings showed that the approach to gain consent to conduct the MITS procedure involves religious factors associated with timing of burial, use of certain terminology, and methods of transporting the body. Community misperceptions and uncertainties resulted in rumor surveillance and consistency in information sharing. Religious pronouncements, recognition of health priorities, attention to pregnancy, and advancement of child health facilitated community acceptability. These findings helped formulate program priorities, guided site-specific adaptations in surveillance procedures, and verified inferences drawn from CHAMPS epidemiological and formative research data. Results informed appropriate community sensitization and engagement activities for introducing and sustaining mortality surveillance, including MITS

Loss, Bereavement and Creativity: Meanings and Uses

Within the field of death and bereavement studies, the assumption that loss and bereavement provide the spur to creativity has become so widespread as to assume the status of a conventional wisdom. With this in mind, this article surveys the literature on the topic, extant, and contemporary, revealing its diffuseness as well as the multidisciplinary synergies produced by those working in disparate academic and clinical fields of practice. In so doing, the article explores what it means to be creative in the context of loss and bereavement, the potential for self-development and personal growth offered by creativity and loss, the theoretical premises linking creativity and loss, and the application and challenges for creative therapies in the institutional context of hospice and palliative car

The Last Dance : Encountering death and dying

Buku teks terlaris di bidangnya, The Last Dance menawarkan pendekatan interdisipliner untuk mempelajari kematian dan kematian. Mengintegrasikan dimensi pengalaman, ilmiah, sosial, individu, emosional, dan intelektual dari kematian dan kematian, teks yang diakui ini memberikan landasan yang kuat dalam teori dan penelitian, serta aplikasi praktis untuk kehidupan siswa. Edisi kesembilan telah diperbarui untuk menawarkan cakupan studi kematian yang komprehensif dan mutakhir

The Last Dance Encontering Death and Dying

xxvi, 677 hlm.; 23.5 c

The Last dance : encountering death and dying, 8th ed./ Despelder

xxiv, 648 hal.: ill.; 23 cm

The last dance : encountering death and dying

This book is provided to explain comprehensive, multidisciplInary, state-of-the-art coverage of topics in death, dying and bereavement

The Last dance : encountering death and dying, 8th ed./ Despelder

xxiv, 648 hal.: ill.; 23 cm

Ratios of staff to line personnel, a study of small and medium-size manufacturers of metallic automotive parts.

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