Agreement between self-reported and central cancer registry-recorded prevalence of cancer in the Alaska EARTH study.

ABSTRACT: Reliance on self-reported health status information as a measure of population health can be challenging due to errors associated with participant recall. We sought to determine agreement between self-reported and registry-recorded site-specific cancer diagnoses in a cohort of Alaska Native people. We linked cancer history information from the Alaska Education and Research Towards Health (EARTH) cohort and the Alaska Native Tumor Registry (ANTR), and calculated validity measures (sensitivity, specificity, positive predictive value, negative predictive value, kappa). Multiple logistic regression models were used to assess independent associations of demographic variables with incorrect reporting. We found that among Alaska EARTH participants, 140 self-reported a history of cancer, and 99 ma

SUBMITTER: Nash SH 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6366410 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature