Live Interview Videos
The videos below present live Verbal Autopsy interviews with real respondents and surveyors. Make sure clicking “expert’s review” after watching video to check how Verbal Autopsy experts evaluate each interview.
Interview 01: Death of 70 years old male, daughter interviewed
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This interview is done well, but there is room for improvement. The interviewer should probe the paralysis first prior to asking other Cardinal Symptoms. Also note that the respondent gives details of being unable to speak in last few days at the end. This should have been explored since it might be related to stroke or other cardinal symptoms.
- [01:10] Step 1: The interviewer should probe the paralysis before asking other cardinal symptoms
- [02:45] Step 3: Some associated symptoms of stroke are skipped
Interview 02: Death of 60-70 years old male, daughter interviewed
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This interview is done relatively well. Surveyor moves on to the probing stage (step 3) right after obtaining positive symptoms from respondent’s first description about her father’s death. Two more cardinal symptoms are discovered later, and they are probed as well. However, surveyor skipped some probing questions or associated symptoms.
- [01:25] Step 3: Interviewer cut off respondent at about when describing alcohol. The interviewer could let her go on
- [02:55] Step 3: Abdominal problem probing skips question about abdominal distension and most of the associated symptoms
- [03:10] Step 3: Cough probing misses several questions and associated symptoms
- [03:40] Step 3: Weight loss probing skips almost half of the questions and lead to irrelevant speaking symptom
- [04:15] Step 3: Diarrhoea probing fails to capture details
Interview 03: Death of senior male, daughter-in-law interviewed
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This interview presents problems in following steps and probing symptoms. Although 3 cardinal symptoms are identified, some questions about details and associated symptoms are missing. Note that the interviewer asked Yes/No question in the middle of probing instead of following 5 steps clearly. The interviewer should have finished probing, then used Yes/No questions to clarify negative symptoms.
- [02:20] Step 3: The respondent mentions chest pain while describing cough. This chest pain should be probed
- [03:25] Step 2: Fever is mentioned, but poorly probed
- [04:15] Step 3: Probing of stomach pain skips details and associated symptoms
Interview 04: Death of 70 years old female, daughter interviewed
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The interviewer was distracted because the history contains a non-Cardinal Symptom, throat pain. After listening respondent’s description, interviewer should try to return to Cardinal Symptoms. Later, negative symptoms are well probed.
- [01:50] Step 3: Fever is not properly probed. Lots of probing questions are skipped
- [03:10] Step 3: “can’t take food” should be clarified if it is abdominal problem
- [04:00] Step 3: Chest pain probing misses some questions and associated symptoms
Interview 05: Death of senior male, widow interviewed
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The main cardinal symptom, paralysis, is not articulated. The interviewer should probe the POSITIVE symptoms of stroke first and then return to negative Cardinal symptoms. Headache, eyes burning are non cardinal symptoms. These should be probed as done, and then interviewer should return to cardinal symptoms. The interviewer jumps back and forth about cardinal symptoms rather than explore each one carefully.
- [02:00] Step 2: Stroke/paralysis is not perfectly probed. Some questions in the list are skipped
- [02:05] Step 2: Vomiting is a not a cardinal symptom. Details about vomiting is irrelevant.
Interview 06: Death of 80 years old female, grandson interviewed
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This is an example of a poor interview. At the step 1, the respondent states that the “doctor said she had a heart attack”, but the interviewer does not probe this any further. The interviewer should have gone right away to probe chest pain symptoms and details of why the doctor gave the diagnosis. Overall, this interview is too short too.
- [00:30] Step 1: Fever is mentioned, but not probed in the step 3
- [00:45] Step 1: Heart attack should have been probed
- [01:15] Step 3: Some associated symptoms of diarrhoea are skipped
- [02:05] Step 3: Weight loss is mentioned, but not probed
- [04:10] Step 5: Only 1 cardinal symptom, Diarrhoea, is mentioned in the summary
Interview 07: Death of 75 years old male, son interviewed
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This interview is done quite well. The respondent retains good memory regarding signs, symptoms, and event before his father’s death. The surveyor follows 5 Interview steps well and used the Cardinal Symptoms List to obtain positive cardinal symptoms. Almost all probing questions were asked except a few exceptions. During step 4, a new cardinal symptom is discovered, and the surveyor goes back to Step 3 to probe it. The summary clearly mentions all of the negative symptoms.
- [01:20] Step 3: Some weight loss probing questions are skipped
- [03:30] Step 3: Swelling probing misses questions about fatigue, feeling the heart beat faster, nausea (associated symptoms)
- [06:45] Step 3: Abdominal problems probing misses a question about nausea (associated symptom)
- [07:50] Step 3: Cough probing misses some questions and associated symptoms
- [08:50] Step 4: Respondent said he has the records and scans from hospital, but surveyor doesn’t ask to show them
- [11:00] Step 5: The summary misses details about weight loss
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