ArticleJournal of epidemiology and community health2022
Self-report of chronic diseases in old-aged individuals: extent of agreement with general practitioner medical records in the German AugUR study.
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- Examining the relationship between social risk factors, diabetes prevention recommendations, and behaviors among US adults with prediabetes.BMC public health · 2025Article
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- [Awareness for age-related macular degeneration in the population-based AugUR study : Comparison of participant self-report with medical records data from treating ophthalmologists].Die Ophthalmologie · 2025Article
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- A comparison between the self-report of chronic cardiovascular diseases with health insurance data: insights from the population-based LIFE-Adult study.Archives of public health = Archives belges de sante publique · 2025Article
- Reliability and Validity of Self-Reported Risk Factors for Stroke and Dementia.Journal of the American Heart Association · 2025Article
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Abstract
backgroundTo estimate prevalence and incidence of diseases through self-reports in observational studies, it is important to understand the accuracy of participant reports. We aimed to quantify the agreement of self-reported and general practitioner-reported diseases in an old-aged population and to identify socio-demographic determinants of agreement.
methodsThis analysis was conducted as part of the AugUR study (n=2449), a prospective population-based cohort study in individuals aged 70-95 years, including 2321 participants with consent to contact physicians. Self-reported chronic diseases of participants were compared with medical data provided by their respective general practitioners (n=589, response rate=25.4%). We derived overall agreement, over-reporting/under-reporting, and Cohen's kappa and used logistic regression to evaluate the dependency of agreement on participants' sociodemographic characteristics.
resultsAmong the 589 participants (53.1% women), 96.9% reported at least one of the evaluated chronic diseases. Overall agreement was >80% for hypertension, diabetes, myocardial infarction, stroke, cancer, asthma, bronchitis/chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and rheumatoid arthritis, but lower for heart failure, kidney disease and arthrosis. Cohen's kappa was highest for diabetes and cancer and lowest for heart failure, musculoskeletal, kidney and lung diseases. Sex was the primary determinant of agreement on stroke, kidney disease, cancer and rheumatoid arthritis. Agreement for myocardial infarction and stroke was most compromised by older age and for cancer by lower educational level.
conclusionSelf-reports may be an effective tool to assess diabetes and cancer in observational studies in the old and very old aged. In contrast, self-reports on heart failure, musculoskeletal, kidney or lung diseases may be substantially imprecise.
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