Retrospective Assessment of Risk Factors for Head and Neck Cancer Among World Trade Center General Responders.

ABSTRACT: Objective: To assess the reliability of a questionnaire designed to reconstruct risk factors for head and neck cancer relative to the 9/11 World Trade Center (WTC) response and over the lifetime. Methods: As part of a nested case-control study, 200 WTC Health Program (WTCHP) General Responder Cohort (GRC) members completed a newly-developed study questionnaire via telephone (with a trained interviewer) or online (self-administered). We assessed agreement between measures of tobacco and alcohol use in our questionnaire results and data collected previously during WTCHP-GRC monitoring visits using Cohens Kappa (κ) and intraclass correlation coefficient (ICC) for categorical and continuous measures, respectively. We compared agreement by disease status, survey mode, and y

SUBMITTER: Bover Manderski MT 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7734028 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature