| Reliability of data on smoking habit and coffee drinking collected by personal interview in a hospital-based case-control study. | |
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PMID: 9663519 Owner: NLM Status: MEDLINE |
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A study on the reliability of information on smoking habits and coffee drinking collected via interview was conducted among 500 subjects enrolled in a case-control study on bladder cancer in Brescia, North Italy. A total of 215 cases (incident and prevalent) and 285 controls were interviewed personally in the hospital setting by a first interviewer, and then re-interviewed by telephone by either the same interviewer or another one. Agreement between the first and second interview was evaluated using the kappa statistic and the intra-class correlation coefficient and via multiple logistic regression modelling. No important differences in reliability were found according to sex, education or case/control status, while agreement was better among subjects below 65 than among older ones, and among incident than prevalent cases. A slightly better agreement was found among subjects interviewed twice by the same interviewer than those interviewed by two different individuals, which may reflect the presence of inter-observer reliability for the latter. Overall, these results show a very high reliability of data on smoking and a fairly high reliability regarding coffee drinking as collected through face-to-face interviews. |
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Authors:
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F Donato; P Boffetta; R Fazioli; U Gelatti; S Porru |
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Type: Journal Article |
Journal Detail:
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Title: European journal of epidemiology Volume: 14 ISSN: 0393-2990 ISO Abbreviation: Eur. J. Epidemiol. Publication Date: 1998 Apr |
Date Detail:
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Created Date: 1998-09-17 Completed Date: 1998-09-17 Revised Date: 2007-11-15 |
Medline Journal Info:
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Nlm Unique ID: 8508062 Medline TA: Eur J Epidemiol Country: NETHERLANDS |
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Languages: eng Pagination: 259-67 Citation Subset: IM |
Affiliation:
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Institute of Hygiene, University of Brescia, Italy. nardi@master.cci.unibs.it |
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Adult Aged Analysis of Variance Case-Control Studies Coffee* Confidence Intervals Drinking Behavior* Evaluation Studies as Topic Female Follow-Up Studies Humans Interviews as Topic / standards* Italy / epidemiology Logistic Models Male Middle Aged Observer Variation Odds Ratio Reproducibility of Results Sampling Studies Smoking / epidemiology* Telephone Urinary Bladder Neoplasms / epidemiology* |
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0/Coffee |
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