Agreement in reporting of asthma by parents or offspring – the RHINESSA generation study

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Title: Agreement in reporting of asthma by parents or offspring – the RHINESSA generation study
Authors: Ingrid N. Kuiper, Cecilie Svanes, Bryndis Benediktsdottir, Randi J. Bertelsen, Lennart Bråbäck, Shyamali C. Dharmage, Mathias Holm, Christer Janson, Rain Jögi, Andrei Malinovschi, Melanie Matheson, Jesús Martínez Moratalla, Francisco Gómez Real, José Luis Sánchez-Ramos, Vivi Schlünssen, Signe Timm, Ane Johannessen
Source: BMC Pulmonary Medicine, Vol 18, Iss 1, Pp 1-10 (2018)
Publisher Information: BMC, 2018.
Publication Year: 2018
Collection: LCC:Diseases of the respiratory system
Subject Terms: Agreement, Validation, Asthma, Questionnaire, Self-report, Transgenerational, Diseases of the respiratory system, RC705-779
More Details: Abstract Background Self-report questionnaires are commonly used in epidemiology, but may be susceptible to misclassification, especially if answers are given on behalf of others, e.g. children or parents. The aim was to determine agreement and analyse predictors of disagreement in parents’ reports of offspring asthma, and in offspring reports of parents’ asthma. Methods In the Respiratory Health in Northern Europe, Spain and Australia (RHINESSA) generation study, 6752 offspring (age range 18–51 years) and their parents (age range 39–66 years) reported their own and each other’s asthma status. Agreement between asthma reports from offspring and parents was determined by calculating sensitivity, specificity, positive and negative predictive value and Cohen’s kappa. The participants’ own answers regarding themselves were defined as the gold standard. To investigate predictors for disagreement logistic regression analyses were performed to obtain odds ratios (OR) with 95% confidence intervals (CI) for sex, smoking status, education, comorbidity and severity of asthma. Results Agreement was good for parental report of offspring early onset asthma (
Document Type: article
File Description: electronic resource
Language: English
ISSN: 1471-2466
Relation: http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12890-018-0687-4; https://doaj.org/toc/1471-2466
DOI: 10.1186/s12890-018-0687-4
Access URL: https://doaj.org/article/6861dd4d5c0c48a8a64507a12ac268fb
Accession Number: edsdoj.6861dd4d5c0c48a8a64507a12ac268fb
Database: Directory of Open Access Journals
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ISSN:14712466
DOI:10.1186/s12890-018-0687-4
Published in:BMC Pulmonary Medicine
Language:English