Mothers tended to overreport categorical infant birth weight of their children.
J Clin Epidemiol
; 59(12): 1319-25, 2006 Dec.
Article
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| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-17098575
ABSTRACT
OBJECTIVES:
We validated infant birth weight by interview with mothers. STUDY DESIGN ANDSETTING:
Infant birth weights obtained from maternal interview were compared with the data documented in birth certificates. Study subjects were mothers of 1,432 schoolchildren who participated in a diabetes mass screening program in 1992-1997, Taiwan. Data of infant birth weight obtained from telephone interview with mothers were compared with those from birth certificates to evaluate the accuracy of maternal report in eight categorized groups <2,000, 2,000-2,499, 2,500-2,999, 3,000-3,499, 3,500-3,999, 4,000-4,499, 4,500-4,999, and >or=5,000 g.RESULTS:
The exact agreement was as low as 15.9% but increased substantially to 67.7% if maternal reports of weight one category higher than birth registry weight were considered to be indicative of agreement. Lower orders of birth weight were significantly associated with reports of higher category. But teen mothers and/or low-income mothers were associated with lower risks of overreport.CONCLUSION:
Our data suggested that birth weight-associated studies in Taiwan should "round number" to an upper category rather than a lower category to avoid serious misclassification in birth weight.
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01-internacional
Base de dados:
MEDLINE
Assunto principal:
Peso ao Nascer
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Mães
Tipo de estudo:
Qualitative_research
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Screening_studies
Limite:
Adolescent
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Adult
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Child
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Female
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Humans
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Male
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Newborn
País/Região como assunto:
Asia
Idioma:
En
Revista:
J Clin Epidemiol
Assunto da revista:
EPIDEMIOLOGIA
Ano de publicação:
2006
Tipo de documento:
Article
País de afiliação:
Taiwan