Reliability of retrospective self-reports of sexual and nonsexual health behaviors among women
Reliability of retrospective self-reports of sexual and nonsexual health behaviors among women
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DOI：
10.1080/00926230290001457
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发表时间：
2002-07-01
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2.5
通讯作者：
Carey, MP
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作者：
Durant, LE;Carey, MP
关于性健康行为的自我报告的准确性受到质疑。为了调查性健康行为是否是唯一难以报告的，我们要求185名女大学生回答关于性和非性健康行为的行为频率问题，时间间隔为8周。妇女要么参加了面对面的访谈，要么完成了自我管理的问卷调查。一周后，这些妇女返回并在相同的评估条件下回答相同的问题。重测组内相关性表明，所有的健康行为，性和非性，可靠的报告。有一种趋势是，较低频率的报告产生更稳定的行为频率估计。这些研究结果与其他方法学研究相结合，表明社会敏感的健康行为并不难可靠地评估。
The accuracy of self-reports regarding sexual health behavior has been questioned. To investigate whether sexual health behaviors are uniquely difficult to report, we asked 185 college women to answer behavioral frequency questions about sexual and nonsexual health behavior for an 8-week interval. Women either took part in a face-to-face interview or completed a self-administered questionnaire. One week later, the women returned and responded to the same questions in the same mode of assessment conditions. The test-retest intraclass correlations showed that all health behaviors, sexual and nonsexual, were reported reliably. There was a trend for lower-frequency, reports to yield more-stable estimates of behavioral frequency. These findings converge with other methodological investigations to indicate that socially sensitive health behaviors are not more difficult to assess reliably.