The attitude of people with an Arabic Islamic cultural background toward medico-legal autopsy

Alsaif, Dalia; Alfaraidy, Maram; Madadin, Mohammed; Al-Bayat, M.I.; Alsowayigh, Kholoud; Al-Shamsi, Ghadah A; Aldossary, M.R.; Almadani, Osama M.; Kharoshah, Magdy A.

doi:10.1080/00450618.2015.1110200

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“…The questionnaire was based on previously published studies. [9,10] and modified in the context of Nepal. The questionnaire was originally prepared in English Language and was translated to Nepali to collect the responses.…”

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Knowledge and Perception of Public Towards Medico Legal Autopsy in Nepal

Subedi¹,

Paudel²,

Kandel³

et al. 2018

J Lumbini Med Coll

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Introduction: Autopsy is an important tool to determine the cause of death. This study was conducted with the objectives to assess the knowledge and perception of Nepalese people towards medico legal autopsy. Methods: It was a questionnaire based cross sectional study performed among the general public of Nepal. A standard pretested questionnaire was used to collect the responses on knowledge and perception of the people about medico legal autopsy. Independent samples t-test was used to compare the mean score of knowledge among the various groups. P value of < 0.05 was considered significant. Results: Mean age of the respondents was 29.06 years (SD = 10.50) and 72.31% were male (n = 188, N = 260). Mean score of knowledge was 6.65 (SD = 1.76) out of a total ten. The score was significantly higher (p = 0.02) among the respondents whose relatives had undergone an autopsy than those whose were not. It was comparable among the educated and uneducated groups. A total of 75.77% respondents (n = 197, N = 260) would not reject the autopsy of their relatives. Conclusion: People lack knowledge mostly in basic elements of medico legal autopsy. Most of the people showed positive perception towards autopsy and those who were negative, feared of disfigurement of the bodies after an autopsy.

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Section: Methodsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Knowledge and Perception of Public Towards Medico Legal Autopsy in Nepal

Subedi¹,

Paudel²,

Kandel³

et al. 2018

J Lumbini Med Coll

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“…As most child deaths are accidental, this may explain the lower autopsy rate compared to adults. However, a national survey showed that Saudi people would accept an autopsy on a relative if somebody explained to them the purpose and importance of such a procedure . Two cases in this study emphasized the significance of the autopsy in revealing the actual cause of death.…”

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confidence: 80%

“…Religious beliefs greatly influence how people think in Saudi Arabia, especially since Islam is the main religion in the country. Muslims believe that a fast burial maintains the body's dignity . As most child deaths are accidental, this may explain the lower autopsy rate compared to adults.…”

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confidence: 99%

Child Fatalities in Dammam: A Call for Child Fatality Reviews in Arab Countries

Alsaif¹,

Almadani²,

Almoghannam³

et al. 2017

Journal of Forensic Sciences

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Identifying children's risk exposure is the first step toward mortality prevention. This retrospective study determined the causes of child fatalities in Dammam, Saudi Arabia. Death reports of children and adolescents from 1999 to 2015 (N = 157) were analyzed. Boys represented most cases (69%) and there were two age peaks (1-5 years and 16-18 years). Accidents (typically immersion) defined the main death circumstance (51%) followed by homicide (25%). Only 33% of cases underwent autopsy, and the most common cause of death was head injury (27%) followed by firearm injury. Only one immersion death underwent autopsy. This study revealed important data about the risk exposure of children in Dammam and emphasizes deficient investigative procedures. Child fatality reviews comprise systematic data collection by multidisciplinary teams to determine the true risks toward children in a community. Such teams do not exist in Arab countries; therefore, strategies should be implemented to initiate them.

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“…Issues arise during the removal of bodies, filling body bags, safe burials, mass burials and even cremation. What these issues give rise to is not just the proposal of an unwelcomed burial or an invasive autopsy, it relates to the deceased and how the deceased are managed in different cultures (Manguvo and Mafuvadze 2015;Sajid 2016a;Sajid 2016b;Al-Saif et al 2016;Madadin et al 2014;Marshall and Smith 2015). This affects the capacity to undertake autopsy, sampling, or safe burials.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…This could prevent the blaming of religion or belief systems as the cause of spreading diseases. The focus should be maintained on trying to gain a better understanding of how the international medical/ scientific world can engage with these communities more successfully (Sajid 2016a;Al-Saif et al 2016;Madadin et al 2014;Marshall and Smith 2015). Therefore, the first step is to find ways in which non-native healthcare practitioners can perform the necessary scientific work (e.g.…”

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confidence: 99%

Virtual autopsy and community engagement for outbreak response in Africa: traditional, religious and sociocultural perspectives

O’Sullivan

Sajid

Agusto

et al. 2018

Egypt J Forensic Sci

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Background: In response to outbreaks, the manner in which the medical field engages with the process of death is significantly important, not only in the pathological but also in the sociocultural aspect. Certain response-methodology used could be a critical catalyst for community resistance to post-mortem examinations (e.g. hiding corpses, violence), considering how the deceased are handled in different cultures. We reviewed the traditional, religious and sociocultural aspects of post-mortem response-methodology in Africa. With no means to take blood samples, innovative sampling techniques were developed and frequently adopted in post-mortem cases. However, this approach can be met with resistance. Main body: To avoid resistance, virtual autopsy (virtopsy) involving a non-invasive or minimally invasive imaging-guided biopsy (e.g. portable ultrasound guidance) is recommended as a proper entry point to negotiations around examination of the deceased. We outline how adapting virtopsy and community engagement strategies can have many benefits to communicable disease prevention or control, public health and communities in Africa and elsewhere. This paper provides a completely new perspective by applying imaging autopsy to field studies. These are usually hospital-based procedures. Many countries can train their response and military personnel on how to perform a safe straightforward virtopsy procedure in an outbreak situation. Just as relevant, Islam is now the fastest growing religion in the world-virtopsy might appease fears and increase the autopsy rate among large Muslim populations (in Africa and elsewhere).Conclusions: Virtopsy use and its application might have proved very useful in the recent outbreak of Ebola in 2014 and microcephaly associated with Zika virus. Use of virtopsy may have reduced the number of Ebola cases worldwide and enabled an earlier diagnosis linking Zika virus to microcephaly during the recent outbreak in Northeast Brazil. If the diagnosis was made earlier, additional cases of Ebola or Zika may have been prevented. The issue of invasive autopsy was in all likelihood one of the greatest factors that drove Ebola underground; it prevented communities from cooperating with non-native response teams and contributed to the excessive duration and length of the outbreak. Healers may unknowingly infect others (via scarification) and themselves (via contact with others). Adapting sociocultural engagement methods and conducting a virtopsy may be more acceptable, thereby ameliorating the spread of a deadly virus more efficiently.

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The attitude of people with an Arabic Islamic cultural background toward medico-legal autopsy

Cited by 4 publications

References 14 publications

Knowledge and Perception of Public Towards Medico Legal Autopsy in Nepal

Knowledge and Perception of Public Towards Medico Legal Autopsy in Nepal

Child Fatalities in Dammam: A Call for Child Fatality Reviews in Arab Countries

Virtual autopsy and community engagement for outbreak response in Africa: traditional, religious and sociocultural perspectives

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