PMID- 38051697
OWN - NLM
STAT- PubMed-not-MEDLINE
LR  - 20231207
IS  - 2767-3375 (Electronic)
IS  - 2767-3375 (Linking)
VI  - 3
IP  - 12
DP  - 2023
TI  - Community perception of causes of death using verbal autopsy for diabetes 
      mellitus in Saudi Arabia.
PG  - e0001690
LID - 10.1371/journal.pgph.0001690 [doi]
LID - e0001690
AB  - Diabetes mellitus is a serious global health issue which significantly impacts 
      public health and socioeconomic development. Exploring how the community 
      perceives the causes of death and their associated risk factors is crucial for 
      public health. This study combines verbal autopsy (VA) with the Type 2 Diabetes 
      Mellitus (T2DM) register to explore community perceptions of causes of death and 
      associated influential factors in Makkah province, Saudi Arabia. 302 VA 
      interviews were conducted with relatives or caregivers of deceased who died 
      between 2018 and 2021 based on T2DM medical register from Alnoor Specialist 
      Hospital in Makkah City, Saudi Arabia. Cause-specific mortality fractions (CSMFs) 
      obtained from the VA using the InterVA-5 model were utilized to assess community 
      perception. We used a multivariable logistic regression model to determine 
      factors influencing community perceptions of causes of death. Lin's CCC with 95% 
      CI was used to analyze the concordance for the CSMFs from verbal autopsy causes 
      of death (VACoD) as a presumed reference standard and family-reported causes of 
      death (FRCoD). The outcomes of this study demonstrate a generally broad spectrum 
      of community perceived mortalities, with some critical misconceptions based on 
      the type of death and other vital events like marital status, with an overall CCC 
      of 0.60 (95% CI: 0.20-1.00; p = 003). The study findings demonstrate that 
      community perception is weak if the deceased was male compared to female (aOR: 
      0.52; 95% CI: 0.26-1.03) and if the deceased was > = 80 years compared to 34-59 
      years (aOR: 0.48; 95% CI: 0.16-1.38), but it significantly improves among married 
      compared to single (aOR: 2.13; 95% CI: 1.02-4.42). Exploring community perception 
      of causes of death is crucial as it provides valuable insights into the 
      community's understanding, beliefs, and concerns regarding mortality. Higher or 
      lower community perception is attributed to how people may perceive risk factors 
      associated with the causes of death, which can guide public health planning and 
      interventional programs. The study findings further emphasize the need to employ 
      robust and standardized VA methods within the routine medical services for a 
      systemized assessment of families' reported causes of death.
CI  - Copyright: (c) 2023 Alyazidi et al. This is an open access article distributed 
      under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits 
      unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the 
      original author and source are credited.
FAU - Alyazidi, Faleh
AU  - Alyazidi F
AUID- ORCID: 0000-0001-6823-2375
AD  - School of Public Health and Community Medicine, Institute of Medicine, 
      Sahlgrenska Academy, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden.
AD  - Department of Public Health, College of Health Sciences at Al-Leith, Umm Al-Qura 
      University, Al-Leith, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
FAU - Shakely, Deler
AU  - Shakely D
AUID- ORCID: 0000-0002-5259-6200
AD  - School of Public Health and Community Medicine, Institute of Medicine, 
      Sahlgrenska Academy, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden.
FAU - Petzold, Max
AU  - Petzold M
AD  - School of Public Health and Community Medicine, Institute of Medicine, 
      Sahlgrenska Academy, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden.
FAU - Alyazidi, Fawaz
AU  - Alyazidi F
AD  - Infectious Diseases Control Department, Executive Directorate of Preventive 
      Medicine, Makkah Healthcare Cluster, Makkah, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
FAU - Hussain-Alkhateeb, Laith
AU  - Hussain-Alkhateeb L
AUID- ORCID: 0000-0001-9607-110X
AD  - School of Public Health and Community Medicine, Institute of Medicine, 
      Sahlgrenska Academy, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden.
AD  - Population Health Research Section, King Abdullah International Medical Research 
      Centre, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
DEP - 20231205
PL  - United States
TA  - PLOS Glob Public Health
JT  - PLOS global public health
JID - 9918283779606676
PMC - PMC10697554
COIS- The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
EDAT- 2023/12/06 03:42
MHDA- 2023/12/06 03:43
PMCR- 2023/12/05
CRDT- 2023/12/05 13:23
PHST- 2023/02/14 00:00 [received]
PHST- 2023/11/06 00:00 [accepted]
PHST- 2023/12/06 03:43 [medline]
PHST- 2023/12/06 03:42 [pubmed]
PHST- 2023/12/05 13:23 [entrez]
PHST- 2023/12/05 00:00 [pmc-release]
AID - PGPH-D-23-00222 [pii]
AID - 10.1371/journal.pgph.0001690 [doi]
PST - epublish
SO  - PLOS Glob Public Health. 2023 Dec 5;3(12):e0001690. doi: 
      10.1371/journal.pgph.0001690. eCollection 2023.