Validity of self-reporting of episodes of external genital warts
| Autor: | Stella Grosser, Steffanie A. Strathdee, Karl R. Beutner, Barbara R. Visscher, Frank J. Palella, Roger Detels, Karen Qi, Bridget Calhoun, Dorothy J. Wiley |
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| Rok vydání: | 2001 |
| Předmět: |
Microbiology (medical)
Sexually transmitted disease Male medicine.medical_specialty business.industry Concordance Statistics as Topic Reproducibility of Results Odds ratio Disease Condyloma Acuminatum medicine.disease Dermatology Confidence interval Genital warts Surgery Cohort Studies Infectious Diseases Condylomata Acuminata Multivariate Analysis medicine Humans business Bright light |
| Zdroj: | Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America. 35(1) |
| ISSN: | 1537-6591 |
| Popis: | To determine whether men are able to self-diagnose external genital warts (EGWs), we studied data from 1115 men with and without human immunodeficiency virus infection. Men were largely unable to accurately assess the presence of EGWs. Self-reporting of EGWs was not a sensitive tool; only 38% of men who had EGWs diagnosed by a trained examiner who used bright light and visual inspection also reported having them. When we controlled for other covariates in a multivariate model, men who had EGWs diagnosed by an examiner were 14 times less likely to show concordance between examiner findings and self-report than were men who did not have EGWs diagnosed by an examiner (odds ratio, 0.07; 95% confidence interval, 0.06-0.09). Self-diagnosis and self-assessment may not accurately reflect the presence of EGWs, and self-diagnosis should not be used in place of an examiner's findings for epidemiologic studies that seek to determine the cause of disease. |
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