Reports of birthweight by adolescents and their mothers: comparing accuracy and identifying correlates
Reports of birthweight by adolescents and their mothers: comparing accuracy and identifying correlates
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DOI：
10.1111/j.1365-3016.2006.00757.x
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发表时间：
2006-11-01
影响因子：
2.8
通讯作者：
Breslau, Naomi
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作者：
Lucia, Victoria C.;Luo, Zhehui;Breslau, Naomi
体重与整个生命周期的健康结果有关。官方的出生体重记录并不总是可用的，研究人员必须依靠自我报告获得出生体重信息。本研究以医疗记录为标准，评估青少年自我报告出生体重的准确性，并与母亲的报告进行比较。它还检查了准确性的潜在相关性。受访者是17岁的青少年和他们的母亲，谁参加了一项后续研究，随机选择的样本从新生儿出院名单（1983-85）在密歇根州东南部的两个主要医院。近四分之一的青少年表示他们不知道自己的出生体重，男性回答“不知道”的可能性是女性的两倍。此外，其余青少年自我报告的出生体重是不准确的，准确性与出生体重呈负相关。虽然母亲对后代出生体重的报告在不同的人群中非常准确，但青少年对出生体重的自我报告不太可能在医学研究中有用。
Birthweight is associated with health outcomes throughout the lifespan. Official birthweight records are not always available, and researchers must rely on self-reports for birthweight information. This study evaluates the accuracy of adolescent self-reports of birthweight, using medical records as a standard, and compares it with maternal reports. It also examines potential correlates of accuracy. Respondents are 17-year-old adolescents and their mothers, who participated in a follow-up study of randomly selected samples from newborn discharge lists (1983-85) of two major hospitals in south-east Michigan. Nearly one-quarter of the adolescents stated that they did not know their own birthweight, with males twice as likely as females to respond 'don't know'. In addition, self-reports of birthweight among the remaining adolescents were inaccurate, and accuracy was inversely related to birthweight. While maternal reports of offspring's birthweight are highly accurate across diverse subgroups of the population, adolescent self-reports of birthweight are unlikely to be useful in medical research.