ArticleFrontiers in public health2017
Test-Retest Reliability of Self-Reported Sexual Behavior History in Urbanized Nigerian Women.
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- Inconsistencies in Adolescent Self-Reported Sexual Behavior: Experience from Four Randomized Controlled Trials.Prevention science : the official journal of the Society for Prevention Research · 2023Article
- Qualitative study of comprehension of heritability in genomics studies among the Yoruba in Nigeria.BMC medical ethics · 2020Article
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- Age, HIV status, and research context determined attrition in a longitudinal cohort in Nigeria.Journal of clinical epidemiology · 2018Article
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backgroundStudies assessing risk of sexual behavior and disease are often plagued by questions about the reliability of self-reported sexual behavior. In this study, we evaluated the reliability of self-reported sexual history among urbanized women in a prospective study of cervical HPV infections in Nigeria.
methodsWe examined test-retest reliability of sexual practices using questionnaires administered at study entry and at follow-up visits. We used the root mean squared approach to calculate within-person coefficient of variation (CV
resultsWe found that self-reported sexual history was generally reliable, with overall ICC ranging from 0.7 to 0.9; however, the reliability varied by nature of sexual behavior evaluated. Frequency reports of non-vaginal sex (agreement = 63.9%, 95% CI: 47.5-77.6%) were more reliable than those of vaginal sex (agreement = 59.1%, 95% CI: 55.2-62.8%). Reports of time-invariant behaviors were also more reliable than frequency reports. The CV
conclusionOur findings suggest that overall, the self-reported sexual history among urbanized Nigeran women is reliable.
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