Agreement between asthma questionnaire and health care register data.
Pharmacoepidemiol Drug Saf
; 27(10): 1139-1146, 2018 10.
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ABSTRACT
PURPOSE:
Risk factors and consequences of asthma can be studied by using validated questionnaires. The overall objective of this study was to assess the agreement of parental-reported asthma-related questions regarding their children against Swedish health care registers.METHODS:
We linked a population-based twin cohort of 27 055 children aged 9 to 12 years to the Swedish Prescribed Drug Register, National Patient Register, and the primary care register. Parent-reported asthma was obtained from questionnaires, and diagnoses and medication were retrieved from the registers. For the agreement between the questionnaire and the registers, Cohen's kappa was estimated.RESULTS:
The kappa of the "reported ever asthma" against a "register-based ever asthma" was 0.69 and 0.57 between the parental-"reported doctor's diagnosis" and "register-based doctor's diagnosis." The highest agreement between "reported current asthma" and "register-based current asthma" with at least 1 dispensed medication or a diagnosis applied to different time windows was seen for an 18-month window (kappa = 0.70).CONCLUSIONS:
We found that parent-reported asthma-related questions showed on average good agreement with the Swedish health care registers. This implies that in-depth questionnaires with rich information on phenotypes are suitable proxies for asthma in general and can be used for health care research purposes.Palabras clave
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Colección:
01-internacional
Base de datos:
MEDLINE
Asunto principal:
Asma
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Sistema de Registros
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Encuestas y Cuestionarios
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Programas Nacionales de Salud
Tipo de estudio:
Diagnostic_studies
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Observational_studies
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Qualitative_research
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Risk_factors_studies
Límite:
Child
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Female
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Humans
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Male
País/Región como asunto:
Europa
Idioma:
En
Revista:
Pharmacoepidemiol Drug Saf
Asunto de la revista:
EPIDEMIOLOGIA
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TERAPIA POR MEDICAMENTOS
Año:
2018
Tipo del documento:
Article
País de afiliación:
Suecia