A BRIEF ORIGINAL CONTRIBUTION: Reliability of Reported Sunburn History in a Case-Control Study of Cutaneous Malignant Melanoma
- 1 June 1995
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in American Journal of Epidemiology
- Vol. 141 (11) , 1033-1037
- https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.aje.a117367
Abstract
Reliability of reported sunburn history was assessed. Fifty cases and 50 controls were randomly selected from a population-based case-control study of skin examination practices and lethal melanoma in Connecticut. Eighty-two percent of these participants were interviewed from January 15, 1987, to May 15,1989, and reinterviewed in 1990. The kappa coefficients ranged between 0.37 and 0.57; the intraclass correlation coefficients were similar and ranged between 0.34 and 0.69. There were no significant differences found by case-control status or sex for any variables, and the degree of disagreement was similar for cases and controls and could be considered free of recall bias. Am J Epidemiol 1995;141:1033–7.Keywords
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