Moderate agreement between self-reported stroke and hospital-recorded stroke in two cohorts of Australian women: a validation study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Conflicting findings on the validity of self-reported stroke from existing studies creates uncertainty about the appropriateness of using self-reported stroke in epidemiological research. We aimed to compare self-reported stroke against hospital-recorded stroke, and investigate reasons for disagreement.

Methods

We included participants from the Australian Longitudinal Study on Women's Health born in 1921-26 (n = 1556) and 1946-51 (n = 2119), who were living in New South Wales and who returned all survey questionnaires over a defined period of time. We determined agreement between self-reported and hospitalised stroke by calculating sensitivity, specificity and kappa statistics. We investigated whether characteristics including age, education, area of residence, co

SUBMITTER: Jackson CA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4320610 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature